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Robert Meese

University of Michigan
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Member Bio Emerging conductor Robert Meese currently serves as the Assistant Music Director of the Michigan Pops Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor and Manager of the Campus Symphony Orchestra. Robert studies Orchestral Conducting with Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan, and has recent masterclass experience with Christian Măcelaru, Gerard Schwarz, Jose-Luis Novo, and Grant Cooper. Previously, Robert graduated from Duke University with Highest Distinction, having earned the Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music and the Duke Symphony Orchestra Conductor’s Award. His artistic study was supported by the Music Department, the Benenson Award in the Arts, and the Undergraduate Research Support Office. While at Duke, Robert studied conducting with Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, and led the Duke Chamber Players for four years as Artistic Director. The culmination of his undergraduate studies included performances of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony no. 6, and his own arrangement of Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen, op. 15.
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Zubin Mehta

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Mr. Christopher Memoli

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Member Bio Christopher Memoli is the Music Director of the Rivers Youth Orchestras and conducts the Rivers Youth Symphony Orchestra. Under his direction since 2001, the RYO program has grown from one elementary orchestra to over 300 students in five orchestras. In addition to his responsibilities at the Rivers School Conservatory, Mr. Memoli serves as the Director of Music for the Weston Public Schools where he supervises the K-12 music program and teaches high school band and orchestra. Since 1998 in Weston, Mr. Memoli has overseen the development of what is now one of the most outstanding music programs in the State of Massachusetts. He is the former Orchestra Director at John R. Lewis High School (formerly Robert E. Lee High School) in Fairfax County, VA. During his tenure at John R. Lewis High, he built an outstanding and award winning orchestral program. Mr. Memoli is the former Music Director of the Youth Orchestras of Prince William, a large multi orchestra youth orchestra association located in Northern Virginia. In addition to serving as the Music Director, he served as the conductor of the award winning Youth Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Memoli holds the degrees Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in Conducting from the University of South Carolina. In addition, he holds a graduate degree in Educational Administration. Mr. Memoli studied violin with Donald Portnoy, Luis Haza and Robert Gerle and conducting with Donald Portnoy, Harold Ferberman, Daniel Lewis and Lukas Foss. Mr. Memoli has been a Head Director for American Music Abroad Honor Bands and Orchestras since 1995. He is in demand as a guest conductor, adjudicator, freelance violinist and violin teacher. Mr. Memoli is a past chairperson of the Massachusetts Music Educators Association-Eastern District and currently serves on the Executive Board. In addition, Mr. Memoli is Past-President of the Massachusetts and Virginia Units of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). Mr. Memoli was named the 2008 Massachusetts Orchestra Director of the Year.
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Louis Menchaca

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Member Bio Louis Menchaca currently directs both the Madison Community Orchestra and the Madison Municipal Band at Madison College. Additionally, he is the Associate Director of Bands at Monona Grove High School. He has worked in many schools in Wisconsin as a classroom instrumental music educator as well as a visiting clinician, teaching students of all ages and ability levels from beginning elementary musicians to college students and beyond. Prior to serving in his current roles, Louis pursued graduate studies in Ithaca, NY where he acted as assistant to Ithaca College (IC) Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra, served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate instrumental conducting classes, conducted the Cornell University Open Orchestra, and lead the IC Campus Band. He holds a Master of Music (Conducting) from Ithaca College and a Bachelor of Music (Music Education) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied conducting with Scott Teeple and trumpet with John Aley.
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Javier Mendoza

Florida International University
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Member Bio Javier José Mendozais Director of Orchestral Studies at the Florida International University School of Music. Previously, he was Orchestra Director at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directed the UIC Orchestra and founded Mariachi Fuego. Maestro Mendoza is also the Artistic Director of the Chicago Arts Orchestra. Under Mendoza’s direction the CAO has consistently been named a “Critics Pick” by Time Out Chicago and a “Recommend” by the Chicago Tribune’sJohn von Rhein.Early Music Todaypraises the CAO, “the Chicago Arts Orchestra plays terrifically,” and Steven Ritter of Audiophile Auditionclaims that the CAO is an “exciting group for sure.” In 2014 Mendoza led the CAO to being named “Professional Orchestra of the Year” by The Illinois Council of Orchestras. Mendoza’s work with the CAO can be heard on the album, Al combate, an imprint of Navona Records, and is available internationally through NAXOS. In 2017 Mendoza led the CAO on tour to Mexico City with performances at the Catedral Metropolitana, Anfiteatro Simón Bolivar, and Sala Nezahualcóyotl at the invitation of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mendoza is active in a movement to unearth and re-debut forgotten works from viceregal Latin America and is energetically re-premiering pieces in an effort to bring this wonderful music back into public awareness. He has presented papers/lectures on this subject at Loyola University-Chicago, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Chicago Campus), Virginia Tech, Instituto Cervantes, and the International University of Andalucía. Mendoza has appeared as a conductor with the CAO on the Chicago Latino Music Festival, the largest festival of its kind in the USA, over the last three seasons. Highlights for the 2018-19 season include a lecture at the Music Academy of Krakow in Poland, along with engagements in Boliva, Chicago, and Madrid. Mendoza is one of a few American conductors actively working with an El Sistema-inspired youth orchestra program in Latin America, as guest conductor of El Sistema de Orquestas de Guatemala and the Escuela Municipal de Musica. Mendoza has been a conductor with Opera Maya in Quintana Roo, Mexico and presented the first orchestral concert performed at Tulum, one of the last cities built and inhabited by the Maya. Mendoza has performed with the CAO and Opera Maya across Mexico including performances in San Miguel de Allende, Campeche, Cancun, Playa del Carmen, and Chetumal. Other international performances have been with the State Philharmonic of Sibiu, Romania, the Camerata Antonio Soler in El Escorial, Spain, and as guest conductor at the University of Copenhagen. ​ Mendoza studied at Butler University with Henry Leck and received his Master of Music degree with distinction from the University of New Mexico where he was mentored by composer/conductor Bradley Ellingboe. While in New Mexico Mendoza was an apprentice conductor to Roger Melone, Resident Conductor of the New Mexico Symphony Orc
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Jeffery Meyer

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Member Bio Jeffery Meyer has captivated audiences throughout North America, Europe, Russia, and Asia with a passion for championing contemporary orchestral music and groundbreaking collaborations. He is professor of music in orchestral conducting at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as well as Artistic Partner with the Northwest Sinfonietta, one of the Northwest United States’ most dynamic orchestras. Artistic Director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic for two decades, his work with the orchestra was noted for its breadth and innovation. The orchestra’s American debut with three performances at Symphony Space’s Wall-to-Wall Festival in New York City were described by The New York Times as “impressive”, “powerful”, “splendid” and “blazing.” His programming has been awarded multiple prizes including three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming and two Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Awards in Orchestral Programming. Recent projects and upcoming appearances include a newly-developed multi-media performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Petrushka with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong with soprano Dawn Upshaw, a world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Graffiti performed and recorded alongside internationally renowned graffiti artists, a theatrical symphonic concert focused on themes of social justice developed in collaboration with Daniel Bernard Roumain and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, the world premiere recording of Laura Kaminsky’s Piano Concerto with pianist Ursula Oppens, a new, semi-staged production of Nkeiru Okoye’s Invitation to a Die-In, nearly one dozen world premieres of new works, and engagements with the Sichuan Symphony, Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, and the Grossman Ensemble in Chicago. Passionate about working with young musicians and music education, Meyer is an active adjudicator, guest clinician, and masterclass teacher. Prior to his appointment at the Jacobs School of Music, he led the acclaimed orchestral programs at Arizona State University and Ithaca College. He has given masterclasses throughout the United States as well as Canada and Asia, and recently led conducting masterclasses at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, Tianjin Conservatory, the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna and the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia. Meyer holds degrees in piano as well as composition and completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance with Gilbert Kalish at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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John Mickelthwate

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Member Bio German Conductor Alexander Mickelthwate is the newly appointed Music Director of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Music Director Emeritus of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Canada. Since starting his Winnipeg tenure in 2006 he played a pivotal role in the rejuvenation and turnaround of the Winnipeg Symphony which culminated in a highly successful and critically acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall in May 2014. The New York Times noted the performance was “conducted expertly,” and the New York Classical review stated “under music director Alexander Mickelthwate, they play with excellent intonation and such a fine overall blend and balance of sound that, on their own terms, they may be the best orchestra to appear in the week’s worth of concerts.” Deeply rooted in his German heritage, Norman Lebrecht wrote about Mickelthwate’s interpretation of Mahler’s 10th Symphony with the Winnipeg Symphony: “Both Mahler 10 performances were intense and engaging. Every twist and turn in the score was fresh and surprising to my ears.” And his interpretation of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 prompted the pianist Anton Kuerti to write a letter to the newspaper saying, “I would like to call attention to the stunning performance heard after the intermission. To play Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 with the passion, profundity, emotional intensity, subtlety and degree of perfection achieved by conductor Alexander Mickelthwate and the Winnipeg Symphony can only be called miraculous.” In North America Alexander has guest conducted the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Houston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Saint Luke’s, Milwaukee Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony, among others. His European debut was with the Hamburg Symphony. He also conducted the BBC London, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Royal Scottish, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and NDR Hannover. Other notable performances include the Sao Paulo Symphony and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Venezuela. He made his Australia debut with the Adelaide Symphony and the Tasmania Orchestra where he recorded the Mozart piano concerti Nos. 7 and 10 with the Silber Garburg Duo. Alexander Mickelthwate has worked several times with Dame Evelyn Glennie conducting the world premiere of two new percussion concerti by Vincent Ho. He also worked with Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Yuja Wang, Dawn Upshaw, Plácido Domingo, Ben Heppner, Horatio Gutiérrez, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Sarah Chang, among many others, and he worked very closely with a wide range of composers including Phil Glass, Steve Reich, Sofia Gubaidulina, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, John Luther Adams and Mason Bates. After guest conducting the Simon Bolivar Orchestra and experiencing the life-changing power of the El Sistema program in Venezuela for underprivileged children, Alexander played an instrumental part in creating Sistema Winnipeg.
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Margarita Mikhailova

MuzikFermata
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Member Bio Born in Russia, Margarita began her studies as a pianist and choral conductor in St Petersburg Academy of Art. Since 2002 she has worked in Norway and gradually extended her repertoire from classical and romantic composers to contemporary music. After completing her Master Degree in Choral Conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music Margarita worked with leading Norwegian vocal ensembles, such as : Norwegian Soloist Choir and Kristiansand Vocal Ensemble. She achieved critical acclaim performing Russian Orthodox Church music and modern Scandinavian repertoire. In June 2017 she graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire — MMus, Orchestral Conducting. Margarita is currently working as a Visiting Tutor at the Conservatoire and as a freelance conductor. During her studies in the UK she worked with various professional orchestras, such as The London Mozart Players, Philhamonisches Kammerorchester Berlin, Danub Orchestra(Budapest, Hungary), Amber Sound Symphony Orchestra( Liepaja, Latvia), Estonian National Youth Orchestra (Tallinn, Estonia), St Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Margarita has conducted a few contemporary music premieres both in Norway and the UK.
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Wojciech Milewski

Summerville Orchestra
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Member Bio Wojciech Milewski was selected from an international field of 63 applicants, narrowed to four finalists who each conducted one of the four 2015-16 season’s concerts. The Board of Directors made their selection based upon Wojciech’s skill set and rapport, the overwhelming selection by orchestra musicians, and the audience response. He is considered to be the perfect fit for Summerville and the orchestra needs. Wojciech most recently conducted the El Paso Opera, the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, and was Assistant Conductor for the Opera NEO festival in San Diego. He co-founded and served as the Music Director of the Health Sciences Center Orchestra in Albuquerque. Wojciech is also a professional pianist, clarinetist and coach and received his Master’s Degree with Distinction in Orchestral Conducting from the University of New Mexico.
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Cait Miller Cait Miller Library of Congress

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