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Taylor Massey

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Member Bio Dr. Taylor Massey serves on the Greenville Fine Arts Center's faculty as the Winds Chamber Music Instructor and has served on the faculties of the University of Georgia, Augusta University, Georgia Southern University, Claflin University, Western Carolina University, and Brevard College. His principal instructors have been Steven Cohen, Russell Dagon, Ronald de Kant, and Alan Kay. Dr. Massey earned his bachelor’s degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, his master’s degree from Northwestern University, and a doctorate from Stony Brook University. ​ Dr. Massey has enjoyed a diverse and extensive performing career over the past two decades. He serves as the principal clarinetist with Augusta Symphony Orchestra and has performed as guest principal clarinet with the Savannah Philharmonic, Greenville Symphony, Charleston Symphony, and the South Carolina Philharmonic. Outside of the southeast, Dr. Massey has served as principal clarinet of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and the Choral Society of the Hamptons. In addition to orchestral performances, he has been a featured soloist with the Savannah River Winds, Carolina Youth Symphony, Augusta University Wind Ensemble, and, on multiple occasions, Augusta Symphony Orchestra. Internationally, he has performed chamber music at festivals in Morges, Switzerland, and Lucca, Italy.
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Dr. Andrew Mathers

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Member Bio Andrew grew up in a musical family, with both parents involved in singing. Andrew admits "failed attempts at piano and guitar" but played a few other instruments and first tried out conducting in high school. His tertiary music studies began with a Bachelor of Education majoring in music from the Melbourne College of Advanced Education before heading overseas to Florida State University to complete a Master of Music Education degree majoring in instrumental conducting. During this time, Andrew studied instrumental conducting with James Croft and choral conducting with Rodney Eichenberger. Back in Australia, Andrew has been awarded a PhD in music from Monash University, lectured in Conducting and Applied music at Monash University and held a position as an adjunct faculty member of the School of Music - Conservatorium. Andrew is currently Assistant Head of Music - Ensembles and Head of Woodwind at St. Kevin's College (Melbourne). Conducting roles have seen Andrew in front of the Melbourne Youth Symphonic Band from 2003-2008. He served three terms as National President of the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors' Association (ABODA)and has been a feature clinician at the ABODA Conducting Summer Schools in 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2016 and 2019. In recognition of Andrew's extensive commitment, he was chosen as one of four people to receive the first-ever Honorary Life Memberships to be awarded by ABODA. Andrew was also invited to conduct the Queensland State Honours Band for two years in a row.
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PAUL MAUFFRAY

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Member Bio - Conductor / harpsichordist Paul Mauffray was named the 2022 Honored Artist of The American Prize for Professional Conductors after having been consistently awarded 2nd prize in both orchestra and opera conducting categories. He made his 2018 New Orleans Opera debut, conducting the Louisiana Philharmonic in Chadwick's opera “Tabasco,” which he reconstructed from the 1894 manuscript. He has conducted Janacek and Dvorak at the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia and recorded excerpts from “The Scarlet Letter” with the Brno Philharmonic, where he previously conducted Stravinsky's Rite of Spring on 24-hours notice, followed by the Mozart Requiem. He conducted at the Bucharest National Opera, Slovak National Opera, Schleswig-Holstein Landestheater, Opéra Louisiane, and Mobile Opera. Mauffray won 2nd Prize in the Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition and has 20 years conducting experience with European orchestras and operas in Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Lyon, Salzburg, St. Petersburg, and Vienna. After studies in Germany and the Czech Republic, he earned his master's degree in conducting at Indiana University with Arthur Fagen and David Effron. Paul Mauffray has been engaged as assistant conductor to Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Jiri Belohlavek, Kirill Petrenko, Leon Botstein, Michael Morgan, and Raymond Harvey. He is a frequent conductor with Czech orchestras, at Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna, and has often performed as conductor with soloists from the Vienna Philharmonic. Paul is an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
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David McConnell

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Member Bio Dr. David A. McConnell founded Vox Philia in 2012 as an intergenerational chamber choir comprised of professional and gifted amateur singers. The choir’s performances have garnered considerable acclaim for thematic programming and musical excellence. In the summer of 2014, Dr. McConnell co-founded Berks Sinfonietta, a chamber orchestra that also utilizes an intergenerational approach, bringing professional Reading, PA players together with gifted students in both high school and college. Dr. McConnell teaches music courses at Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus and Alvernia University in Reading. As Minister of Music at Immanuel UCC, he plays for weekly liturgies, conducts the Senior Choir and Bell Choir, oversees the training and rehearsing of four other choirs and manages an active concert series at the church. Dr. McConnell received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in December 2002. Picture A native of Philadelphia, Dr. McConnell also holds degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and Temple University in Philadelphia. He has attended the prestigious Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestral Musicians in Hancock, Maine, the South Carolina Conductor's Institute in Columbia, South Carolina, and The Conductors Institute at Bard College. Dr. McConnell has presented papers at the national American Choral Directors Association in San Antonio, Texas and the College Music Society Northeast Chapter Conference in Lewiston, Maine. Articles by Dr. McConnell have appeared in journals of the International Federation of Choral Music, the American Choral Director’s Association, the Conductors’ Guild and the American Beethoven Society. He has written a chapter on Beethoven’s early Piano Concerto in E-flat for inclusion in a book being published about Beethoven’s time in Bonn. In recent years, Dr. McConnell has conducted choirs in Portugal, The Netherlands, and Latvia, as well as throughout the northeastern United States.
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Dr. Everett McCorvey

National Chorale
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Member Bio Everett McCorvey, tenor, is a native of Montgomery, Alabama. He received his degrees from the University of Alabama, including a Doctorate of Musical Arts. He has performed in many cities around the world and theaters across the country, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Kennedy Center, Aspen Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Whitewater Opera Company, Radio City Music Hall, Birmingham Opera Theater, Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England, as well as performances throughout Spain, the Czech and Slovac Republics, Austria, Japan, China, Brazil, Poland, Portugal and Hungary, Mexico, Peru and France. He is tenor soloist on two CD recordings conducted by Maestro Julius Williams, one entitled Symphonic Brotherhood featuring the Bohuslave Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra performing the symphonic works of African-American Composers released in the fall of 1994, and one entitled The American Soloist featuring the Dvorak Symphony in Prague, Czech Republic released the fall of 2004 highlighting new American works. He has returned to the Czech Republic to perform with the Bohuslave Martinu Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Kirk Trevor as well as to the Slovac Republic. He has also appeared in television movies and feature films including The Long Walk Home.
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Gregory D McDaniel

New Jersey Symphony
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Member Bio Gregory D. McDaniel is a passionate conductor who is active in many different musical surroundings. Praised for his “impeccable musicality and technique” (La Presse – Montreal), McDaniel was recently featured in concert with the Orchestre Métropolitain in Québec, conducting Lili Boulanger’s D’un Matin de printemps. Last summer, as a member of the Orchestral Conducting Academy at the Académie du Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, he worked with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec under the tutelage of conductors Thomas Rosner and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Last season, McDaniel led two projects for the Houston Ebony Opera Guild, including their annual African-American Music Gala, which featured a performance of Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater. He also worked with Opera in the Heights as cover conductor and chorus master for their production of La Bohéme, and cover conductor for their production of Hansel and Gretel. This upcoming season, in addition to receiving the Colton Conducting Fellowship with the New Jersey Symphony, McDaniel will work with Opera in the Heights as cover conductor and chorus master for their production of Lucia di Lammermoor. He will also conduct the Houston premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s pivotal opera As One for HOPERA. Past seasons have included leading performances of William Grant Still’s Highway 1, USA and Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up for Opera Ithaca. He also had the opportunity to work with the Boise Baroque Orchestra in works by Mozart and Haydn, and he also worked with the Prizm Ensemble in a concert that featured Emmy and GRAMMY Award-winning baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. With the University of North Texas Chamber and Concert Orchestras, McDaniel conducted the works of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Puccini and more. Some of McDaniel’s past conducting opportunities include working with the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (TX), the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Opera Conducting Initiative, and participating in a conducting fellowship with the Allentown Symphony. Past operatic opportunities include various works of Bizet (CCM) and a production of Poulenc’s Dialogue of the Carmelites (EADO in Houston). A native of Houston, TX, Gregory received degrees from the University of North Texas in Orchestral Conducting and the University of Houston in Music Education. The Colton Conducting Fellowship is made possible by a generous gift from Judith and Stewart Colton.
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John McKeever

University of Missouri
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Member Bio John McKeever recently completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Colorado Boulder. As a graduate teaching assistant, he served as the director of the CU Boulder Campus Orchestra. He also served as an Assistant and Cover Conductor for the Boulder Philharmonic. In the fall of 2021, Dr. McKeever returned to Winston-Salem, NC, and to Piedmont Opera as an Assistant Conductor. Dr. McKeever is also currently working as a performing artist for the School of Dance at the UNC School of the Arts. A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Dr. McKeever began his studies on the piano. While continuing on the piano, he switched his focus to the double bass in elementary school. He earned a Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he studied with Paul Sharpe. While a student at UNCSA, Dr. McKeever developed an interest in conducting and began to work as an assistant conductor for the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, Piedmont Opera, and for several UNCSA musicals. Dr. McKeever continued his studies at UNCSA, earning a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting in 2015. From 2012-2018, Dr. McKeever served as the Assistant Conductor for Piedmont Opera in Winston-Salem, NC. In 2018 he made his conducting debut with the company in Piedmont Opera’s production of The Pirates of Penzance. In 2016, Dr. McKeever shadowed the American Ballet Theatre’s spring season at the Metropolitan Opera at the invitation of the company’s principal conductor, Charles Barker. Dr. McKeever’s teachers include James Allbritten, David Amado, Charles Barker, Michael Jinbo, Christopher James Lees, Gary Lewis, Jonathan Schiffman, and Kevin Stites.
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Mr. Kevin McMahon

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Member Bio Kevin R. McMahon is an American conductor, composer, orchestrator, clinician and violinist. McMahon attended the University of Michigan, where his primary teachers were Jacob Krachmalnick and Gustav Meier. He was awarded the Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Fellowship, earning a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary teachers were David E. Becker, James Smith, Charles Dill, Stephen Dembski and William Farlow. Former conducting positions include music director/conductor of the Symphony School of America Chamber Orchestra (1985–1986), music director/conductor of the National Arts Chamber Orchestra(1985–1988),[6][7] music director/conductor Classical Symphony Chamber Ensemble (1988–1989), music director/conductor Lincoln Opera of Chicago (1989–1994), cover conductor for the South Bend Symphony (1992–1995), music director/conductor of the Northwest Indiana Youth Orchestra (1989–2000), and music director and conductor of the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra (1995–2008).[14][15] He served as music director/conductor for the Wheaton Symphony and Pops Orchestra from 2009 to 2017. McMahon served as artistic director/conductor/violin recitalist for the Maud Powell Music Festival from 1999 to 2018. In October 2009, McMahon guest conducted for the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra for the first time, and on success of that appearance, in 2010 was named the orchestra's music director/conductor serving from 2010 to 2020. Academic appointments, including graduate school, include the University of Michigan, Kalamazoo College, Illinois Valley Community College, Northern Illinois University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ripon College (Wisconsin) and Purdue University Fort Wayne. Along with Purdue University Fort Wayne, his other current position is as the associate conductor for the New York Repertory Orchestra (since 2005). Among McMahon's notable compositional achievements are the world premiere performances of his theater works Marilyn Monroe (2004) and librettist for Maud Powell-Queen of Violinists (2006). In March 2000 the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra premiered a symphony that was written by McMahon.
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Jonathan McPhee

Lexington Symphony (MA)
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Member Bio Jonathan McPhee is equally at home as a conductor for the symphony, ballet, and opera. He is Conductor Emeritus of Boston Ballet having served as Music Director for the Boston Ballet Orchestra for 28 years. Mr. McPhee maintains an active guest conducting schedule in addition to his position as Music Director for Lexington Symphony. In recent seasons McPhee has conducted many orchestras at home and abroad including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchetra (SA), London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarasota Symphony (FL), Germany’s Hamburg Philharmonic, the Ukraine National Opera Orchestra, Houston Ballet Orchestra, and conducted performances at the Dubai Opera House and Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan. Some of the world's most distinguished dance companies for which Mr. McPhee has served as conductor include The Royal Ballet (England), Martha Graham Dance Company, National Ballet of Canada, The Australian Ballet, the New York City Ballet, Den Norske Ballett in Norway, and The Royal Danish Ballet in Denmark. In addition to a broad repertoire in the field of dance, Mr. McPhee has conducted grand opera, pops concerts, musical theatre and operetta. Mr. McPhee's works as an arranger and composer are in the repertoires of orchestras and ballet companies around the world. His edition of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and the complete Firebird ballet are the only reduced orchestrations of these works authorized by the Stravinsky Trust. Mr. McPhee’s compositions and arrangements are published by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. & Schott Music Publishers in Germany. His arrangement of Wagner’s complete RING Cycle, entitled “The Essential RING”, was premiered by Lexington Symphony and has received international acclaim as a wonderful and respectfully approachable version of this masterpiece and is available from Boosey & Hawkes. Inc. Mr. McPhee's best-selling recording of The Nutcracker with the Boston Ballet Orchestra has achieved “classical gold” status. Other recordings include highlights from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet with that orchestra, and Michael Gandolfi’s Caution to the Wind on the CRI label. Mr. McPhee conducted the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Aarhus Orchestra for the films of Martha Graham’s works telecast by DANCE IN AMERICA that included Samuel Barber’s Cave of the Heart, Menotti’s Errand into the Maze, and Edgard Varese’ Integrales, Offrandes, and Octandre. Mr. McPhee also produced the restoration and conducted the soundtrack for the film of Martha Graham dancing Frontier for DANCE IN AMERICA with London’s National Philharmonic. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. McPhee received his L.R.A.M. from the Royal Academy of Music and University of London, and a B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School. While at Juilliard, Mr. McPhee was the recipient of a Naumburg Scholarship in English Horn and Conducting. He studied with Leonard Brain, David Diamond, Thomas Stacy, Rudolf Kempe, Sixten Ehrling, and master classes with Sir Georg Solti.
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Paul McShee

University of Connecticut
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Member Bio Described by the Baltimore Sun as a conductor who draws “subtle nuances from any score,” Paul McShee, Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestras at Binghamton University, is known for the “remarkable blend of warmth, energy, and driving rhythmic vitality” he evokes from any orchestra he conducts. Equally at home on the podium and in the opera pit, Dr. McShee is sought after as a conductor for opera productions in the US and Europe. He was guest music director of the Twin Cities Fringe Opera, staff conductor for the Baltimore Opera Project, guest conductor for La traviata and Madama Butterfly at Paul Hamlyn Hall in London, and music director of the PopUp Opera Program in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. McShee has conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Boulder Chamber Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the Paradisal Players, L’Orchestre QuiPasseParLà, L’Orchestre Band-Son, the Philharmonie Mihail Jora, and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic. He holds the DMA in conducting from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and a MM from the University of Connecticut.He has served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, the University of Connecticut, and Binghamton University. His current research concerns the music of Brahms, Wagner, and Mahler, relating it to philosophy and cultural pessimism. His dissertation, “Gentle into that Good Night: Rejection of Linear Structural Narratives in Finales by Brahms, Wagner, and Mahler,” was recognized by Peabody Conservatory faculty with the 2018 Dissertation Prize. Dr. McShee studied under Marin Alsop, Gustav Meier, and Don Schleicher. His principal flute teachers were Emmanuel Pahud, Verena Bosshart, and Teresa Bowers.
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