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Dr. Sean Paul Mills

Joliet Symphony Orchestra / University of St. Francis & Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio Sean Paul Mills is a native of Eureka, California and attended Humboldt State University, the University of Oregon (Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees), and the University of Iowa (Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Violoncello Performance and Pedagogy -with the cognate area of Orchestral Conducting). He studied cello with Horatio Edens, Dr. Robert Hladky, Terry King, and Charles Wendt, and conducting with Dr. Phillip Kates, Dr. Madeline Schatz, Marsha Mabrey, Dr. Royce Saltzman, and James Dixon. Sean has also participated in workshops and festivals with Helmuth Rilling, Krzysztof Penderecki, Dr. Weston Noble, Gunther Schuller, and Dr. Donald Neuen. Sean has performed as cellist and conductor in California, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Austria as a member of the Humboldt Symphony, the Humboldt Chamber Players, the Oregon Mozart Players, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, the Quad City Symphony, the Manzanita Piano Trio, the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra, and other ensembles. Sean has also served on the faculties of Grinnell College, Kirkwood Community College, Coconino Community College, Chemeketa Community College, Oregon State University, and Ball State University. He is a Founder of the Flagstaff Light Opera Company (FLOC)[Flagstaff Musical Theatre] and has also served as Music Director & Conductor for the FLOC, the Coconino Community Orchestra, and the Coconino Chamber Orchestra, as the Director of Music at The Church of the Red Rocks, Music Director of the Verde Valley Sinfonietta, as the Artistic Director & Conductor of the Red Rock Community Chorale & Chamber Orchestra, and as Artistic Director & Conductor of the Salem Philharmonia Orchestra and Willamette Valley Symphony. Sean is also an active member of the American String Teachers Association, League of American Orchestras, Conductors Guild, and College Orchestra Directors Association.  ​ Currently, Sean serves as the Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of St. Francis (www.stfrancis.edu) and as Artistic Director & Conductor of the Joliet Symphony Orchestra (www.jolietsymphonyorchestra.org). ​​ When not pursuing musical activities, Sean trains in and teaches the traditional Japanese Karate-do styles of Shotokan and Shindo Jinen Ryu. He has served as the Chief Instructor & Technical Director for the Northern Arizona Karate Association (Japan Karatedo Ryobukai Flagstaff), Central Valley Shotokan Karate-do, Shin Gi Tai Shotokan Karate-do, and The Art of Karate (www.theartofkarate.com), maintaining active memberships in the Amateur Athletic Union National Karate Program, United States Traditional Karate Association, and the Japan Karatedo ShotoJukuKai (Shotokan Karatedo of Japan Federation). He resides in Aurora, Illinois with his wife, Susana (President, Aurora University); English Cream Golden Retriever, Scout; and his William John Acton (1903) cello.
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David Milnes

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Member Bio David Milnes presently serves as music director of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. Following early musical studies on the clarinet, piano, organ, cello and voice, he earned degrees from SUNY Stony Book and Yale University His conducting teachers have included Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf, Max Rudolf, Herbert Blomstedt and Otto-Werner Mueller. After winning the prestigious Exxon Conductor position with the San Francisco Symphony in 1984, David Milnes was hailed as “one of the major new conducting talents of our day.” (Byron Belt). In San Francisco his award-winning educational programs resulted in a nationally televised broadcast of a Concerts for Kids documentary; he also conducted subscription, contemporary and pops concerts. On twenty four hours notice he was called to step in for an ailing Edo de Waart, conducting a national broadcast of Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Pinchas Zukerman as soloist. He served also as Music Director of the acclaimed San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, which he led on an international tour during which he was awarded the Prize of the City of Vienna for his performance of Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra. David Milnes is a frequent guest conductor in Russia and the Baltics. He has appeared with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic and served as a principal guest conductor of the Latvian National Symphony, where he led a Wagner program featuring tenor John David DeHaan, an all-Berlioz program that Berlioz himself conducted in Riga, and a special performance of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music that was attended by the President of Latvia and the American ambassador. Other recent collaborations have included performances with Dawn Upshaw, Bill T. Jones, Paul Hillier, James Newton and David Starobin. A dedicated proponent of new music, Milnes received a 1994 Grammy nomination for his recording of John Anthony Lennon’s Zingari, and has recently recorded an album of music by James Newton with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. As Music Director of the Riga Independent Opera Company as well as the opera and orchestral programs at SUNY Purchase and Southern Methodist University, his varied operatic repertoire has included productions of Die Fledermaus, Eugene Onegin, Die Zauberflöte, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème, The Consul, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica and The Threepenny Opera, among others. Opera News wrote of his 1997 performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo at The Curtis Institute of Music: “Shaping a persuasive interpretation notable for its drive and drama, conductor David Milnes drew superb playing from the Curtis Institute Orchestra” His Sondheim revue program aired nationally on A&E in 1995. Milnes has recently conducted the Oregon, Columbus, Anchorage and Cheyenne Symphonies, and has performed at the Tanglewood, Aspen, Monadnock and Killington Music Festivals.
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Bram Minnaert

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Dr. Michael Mishra

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Member Bio British conductor Michael Mishra is Director of Orchestral Studies at SIUE. He has conducted worldwide, performing with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, the Arpeggione Kammerorchester in Austria, the Orquesta Sinfonica Uncuyo in Argentina, the Saratov Philharmonic in Russia, the Kharkov Philharmonic in Ukraine, and the Karlovy Vary Philharmonic, Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, and the Silesian State Opera in the Czech Republic. In 2004, he conducted the Daegu City Symphony in what was claimed to be the first ever performance by a Korean orchestra of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2. Of this performance, the Yeong-Nam Daily wrote: “With flowing tempi and natural control of rubato, [Mishra] brought out beautifully the elaborate dialogues in Bruckner’s complexly woven collection of melodic lines. Maestro Mishra combined delicate analysis with musical charisma.” In 2003, Michael won the First Prize at the Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition in Ukraine. In the United States, Michael conducted the Midwest Lyric Opera’s production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 2008, and in 2012 appeared with Winter Opera St. Louis. He returned to open their 2013-2014 season with Gounod’s Faust. He has served on the faculty of the Conductors Guild’s Conducting Workshops for String Educators, and twice has been invited as a guest lecturer in conducting at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. He serves on the boards of the Conductors Guild and the Illinois Council of Orchestras. Michael’s major research interest is the music of Shostakovich. His 2008 volume, A Shostakovich Companion, has been acclaimed in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. He also has given papers on Shostakovich’s 7th Quartet, the cantata The Execution of Stepan Razin, the Michelangelo Song Cycle, the first version of the 9th Symphony, and the reorchestration of Schumann’s Cello Concerto.
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Dr. Jon C Mitchell

University of Massachusetts Boston
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Member Bio Jon Ceander Mitchell holds the title Professor Emeritus of Music at University of Massachusetts Boston, where he served as Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra and Coordinator of Music Education for nearly a quarter of a century. A well-known clinician on Gustav Holst, Ludwig van Beethoven and Anton Rubinstein, he has over one hundred publications, including seven books of which he is sole author and another where he is co-author. He has guest conducted throughout Europe and the United States and has recorded ten CDs with professional orchestras. Among these are the Anton Rubinstein piano concertos with pianist Grigorios Zamparas, the first pianist/conductor team to record all five, and his recording of his own realization of the orchestral score to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in E flat, WoO4. He was editor of the CODA (College Orchestra Directors Association) Journal for over a decade and is the 2019 recipient of the CODA Lifetime Achievement Award. He also serves on the boards of IGEB (International Society for the promotion and Investigation of Wind Music) and the International Conductors Guild. His hobbies include composing, arranging and writing. Now You Can Take Off Your Clothes: Vignettes of an American Conductor Lost in Translation (Whitman, MA: Riverhaven Press) his latest book, along with his burgeoning coaster collection, is the result of over fifty trips to Europe. He and his wife Ester live in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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Gigi Mitchell Velasco

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Member Bio Conductor Gigi Mitchell-Velasco showed an aptitude for music at an early age and had a passionate desire to learn many different instruments. She studied the organ as soon as her feet could reach the pedals and was a self-taught pianist with an unusual talent for fluency and sightreading, starting to accompany instrumentalists and singers who were well beyond her young age. She also played violin and guitar in her early years. Auditions for music schools garnered her a place at both the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music; she chose the latter, graduating with a degree in flute. During her time at Curtis, she was accepted at the Opera Department after only five months of voice studies, and was offered a double major to include voice and opera. She turned it down to be with her husband, tenor Noel Velasco, who had been her first voice teacher. She served as principal flute with the Opera Company of Boston under Sarah Caldwell for 8 seasons, and during this time played with other freelance orchestras and bands, including as piccolo soloist with Keith Brion's New Sousa Band US touring group, Boston Philharmonic, Rhode Island Philharmonic and Vermont Symphony. Her singing career began with an invitation to sing in an Opera New England production of the Magic Flute. Her career fast forwarded and in only two years she found herself at Santa Fe Opera as an apprentice artist, and not too long after that with several contracts for exclusive management, eventually settling with the Colbert Artist Management which was a then small boutique agency managing singers such as her mentor Christa Ludwig, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Joan Sutherland, Nathalie Stutzmann, Matthias Goerne and the like. Gigi’s international, award-winning singing career spanned over a 20 year period and added some wonderful conductors to her list with which she collaborated. The Curtis Institute had already given her the experience of playing with conductors such as Eugene Ormandy, Zubin Mehta, Andre Previn, Aldo Ceccato, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and to this list she added some regular collaborators such as Jaap van Zweden, Hans Graf, Andreas Delfs, Jahja Ling, Joseph Rescigno, as well as several guestings with Dmitri Kitajenko, Helmut Rilling, Michael Tilson Thomas, Eiji Oue and many others. Other conducting mentors besides these wonderful maestros that she had the pleasure to perform with and learn from have been Paul Vermel, David Hayes and Markand Thakar.
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Holly Mockovac

Boston University
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Nina Moe

Ariel Artists
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Léa Moisan-Perrier

Assistant Conductor - Orchestre Metropolitan
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Member Bio Promising new conductor Léa Moisan-Perrier approaches conducting with sensitivity, rigour and verve. A student at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in Jacques Lacombe’s class, she stands out for her versatility and the quality of her interaction with the musicians. In 2018, she assisted Maestro Lacombe at the Opéra National du Rhin for the production of Offenbach’s Barkouf. In addition, her career experience includes assistant to Gilles Auger at the I Medici orchestra and as a participant in the Medomak Conductor’s Retreat. She has also perfected her skills by participating in various masterclasses, including a class organised by the OSM with Rafael Payare last spring. Concurrently to her orchestral conducting work, she is pursuing a career as a choral conductor. Artistic director of the Montreal Children’s Choir, she leads the organization’s ambitious and refined programs in pushing its limits, and in performing with different ensembles of professional musicians. She is also the artistic director and founder of Les Voix parallèles choir at the École de musique Vincent-d’Indy. Driven by the quality and vitality of the direction, the ensemble attracts high-level choristers and tackles an a capella repertoire as well as works such as the German Requiem and the Psalm Symphony. Les Voix parallèles participated in the production of Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal in the winter of 2020. Léa Moisan-Perrier is also trained as a pianist, singer and choral conductor. A piano graduate from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, she went on to complete a master’s degree in choral conducting at the Université de Sherbrooke and a bachelor’s degree in classical singing at the Université de Montréal. She is the recipient of the 2016 Moulin Seigneurial Scholarship and the Iwan Edwards Prize awarded by Andrew Megill.
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Dr. Jean Montes

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Member Bio An accomplished conductor, educator, clinician, lecturer, and performer, Dr. Jean Montès is passionate about challenging and stimulating audiences and musicians alike. He is the Director of Orchestral Studies and Coordinator of Strings at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana where he conducts orchestral ensembles and teaches conducting and string pedagogy courses for music education majors. In addition to his responsibilities at Loyola University, Montès is the Artistic Director of The Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra (GNOYO) where conducts the Symphony Orchestra. In recent years, Montès has held orchestral leadership positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, St. Ambrose University, the University of Iowa, and with the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra, the Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia, and the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies. Growing up in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Montès studied the cello at the Holy Trinity School of Music. He left Haiti after winning a full scholarship to pursue his bachelor's degree in cello performance at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. He then received an assistantship at the University of Akron in Ohio where he also earned his masters in music education. He completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting at the University of Iowa under the tutelage of Dr. William LaRue Jones. His dissertation topic is An Annotated Translation from French to English of the History of Music in Haiti. He is presently focusing his research on the performance and promotion of orchestral works by Haitian composers. A musician and conductor who enthusiastically promotes music of all world cultures, Dr. Montès is in constant demand as a conductor, clinician, judge and lecturer with orchestras and schools at all levels throughout the country. His unique approach to repertoire selection and rehearsal techniques enables him to connect, to be effective and admired by audiences and musicians of all ages. Most recent appearances include guest conducting the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, The Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, giving clinics in Las Vegas and at the Midwest Clinic and performances of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with the VCU Opera Theatre. He enjoys collaborating with organizations representing the full spectrum of the arts. Montès led an orchestra in a sold out performance of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Ballet in collaboration with the Metropolitan Ballet project in the Twin Cities. Additionally, he was appointed by the mayor of Minneapolis to serve as the 2004 Co-Chair of Minneapolis Mosaic, a summer project which celebrates and showcases the talents of over 150 culturally diverse artistic and performance groups from the Minneapolis area. Montès led the creation and the first performance of the Minneapolis Mosaic Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis on July 9th, 2004.
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