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Jessica Munch-Dittmar

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Raúl Munguía

Nazareth University
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Mr. Ryan Murray

California State University Sacramento
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Member Bio Ryan Murray is currently Music Director of the Auburn Symphony, Principal Pops Conductor for the Modesto Symphony and Artistic Director of Music in the Mountains. He is also the Director of Symphony Orchestra & Opera at California State University, Sacramento, and the Conductor for the Sacramento Youth Symphony's premier orchestra. An award-winning opera conductor, Ryan spent his early career working as an assistant conductor and répétiteur, and is currently the Music Director of Opera Modesto. He has served as an assistant conductor at the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, is the past Music Director of Fresno Grand Opera, and previously worked as a staff conductor for the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI) and The Opera Academy of California in San Francisco. Effortlessly moving between genres, Ryan currently enjoys a wide range of performance genres & platforms, including traditional orchestral and operatic repertoire, pops performances, movies in concert, and a notable emphasis on contemporary American operatic works. ​Ryan was the winner of the Vienna Philharmonic’s prestigious Ansbacher Fellowship for Young Conductors, and spent the summer in residence alongside the Vienna Philharmonic at the 2014 Salzburg Festival. Ryan was also awarded second place in the 2019 American Prize for Professional Orchestral Conducting for his work with the Modesto Symphony, and has garnered national recognition for his dynamic, compelling performances of contemporary opera as the winner of the 2017 American Prize in Opera Conducting for his highly lauded production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He was a 2016 semi-finalist for the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music for his production of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking. A charismatic pops conductor, Ryan has worked with prominent artists such as Storm Large of Pink Martini, SuperDiamond and the phenomenal symphonic tribute to David Bowie. He was recently engaged to step-in at the last minute as assistant and cover conductor for Andrea Bocelli's Believe Tour with the Sacramento Philharmonic where he conducted rehearsals to acclaim. He has led some of the top vocalists from Broadway and beyond, including Ben Crawford (Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera), Ashley Brown (Broadway's Mary Poppins), and Alli Mauzey (Glinda from Wicked), as well as some of today's top young jazz vocalists including Tony DeSare and James Tormé. With an enthusiasm for film scores, Ryan enjoys the unique challenges of conducting movies in concert and was recently added the the Disney & ICM Approved Conductors list. Recent and upcoming performances include Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pixar Animation Studios' Pixar in Concert, Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
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Faber Music

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Studio Music

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Margarita Muñoz

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Member Bio Margarita Muñoz Escolar has been elected president in the extraordinary assembly held by COAEM, a confederation that includes associations and other entities of musical education professionals in the country and that maintains a very active role both in the demand for musical education in all educational levels as well as in the facet of a meeting point for different initiatives aimed at improving the teaching of music. Margarita Muñoz (Murcia 1971) in addition to being a secondary school music professor, is a composer and choir and orchestra director and has extensive experience leading various musical groups, including the Orfeón Murciano Fernández Caballero, the Coro de Profesores de la Region of Murcia or the Bilingual Choir of the IES Cañada de las Eras in Molina de Segura. Since 2019, he has chaired the Association of Music Teachers of the Region of Murcia (ADMURM), one of the most dynamic in the educational field of our country. In this new stage in which the curricula are being reviewed in the school environment, Muñoz considers the defense of music education as its main objective , promoting its presence at all educational levels. In this sense, Muñoz recalled that music education is absolutely necessary for a comprehensive training of students since it not only provides values ​​related to creativity and artistic expression but also contributes to improving general school performance by fostering a critical spirit, awareness culture and logical reasoning ability.
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Prof. Daniel Myssyk

Richmond Symphony/VCU
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Member Bio Assistant Conductor of the Richmond Symphony, Canadian-American conductor Daniel Myssyk was Music Director of the Montreal based Orchestre de chambre Appassionata from 2000 to 2016. In recent years, he has made critically acclaimed appearances with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2015, Myssyk made his debut in Guanajuato (Mexico) where he has been returning almost every season since. In 2019, return engagements have brought him back to Canada to conduct the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières and the Orchestre de la Francophonie. Myssyk’s recordings have received widespread critical acclaim. “Czech Serenades” with works by Suk and Dvořák, was nominated for best recording of the year at the “ADISQ” awards, Quebec’s equivalent of the Grammys and at the Prix Opus from the Conseil québécois de la musique. Professor Myssyk has been Virginia Commonwealth University’s Director of Orchestral Activities since 2007. Under his leadership, three VCU Opera productions of “The Gondoliers” (2015), “The Old Maid and the Thief” (2012), and “Hansel & Gretel” (2011) won top prizes at the National Opera Association competition. His involvement toward the youth reflects a well-honed passion for music education. In addition to his work at VCU, he is a regular collaborator with Senior Regional Orchestras throughout Virginia, among others. He was appointed conductor of the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra in 2018. In the early 2000s, Myssyk was a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School where he spent two summers under the tutelage of David Zinman. A student of Larry Rachleff, he received his Masters Degree in Conducting from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in 2006.
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Dr. Sasha Makila

University of the Arts Helsinki
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Member Bio Finnish conductor Sasha Mäkilä is gaining recognition as one of the most prominent rising talents of his generation in both operatic and symphonic fields. Since 2017 maestro Mäkilä is Artistic Director of the Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Krasnoyarsk Symphony Orchestra. In a short period of time, Mäkilä has made a name for himself as a versatile artist with a broad repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary. In maestro Mäkilä’s previous post as Music Director of St Michel Strings, he lifted the orchestra from near oblivion to national fame, taking them on international tours and music festivals and by inviting world-class soloists as well as introducing concert webcasts. Sasha Mäkilä’s conducting career has taken him to four continents and to major ensembles, such as the Cleveland Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre. Mäkilä has performed at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Gergiev Festival Mikkeli, Pyeongchang Music Festival (South Korea) and Nargenfestival (Estonia) and regularly collaborates with soloists such as Vadim Repin, Kyung-Wha Chung and Jian Wang. Mäkilä has conducted the world premieres of Free Will (2012, Savonlinna Opera Festival), Lovers of Mankind (2009, Musica Nova Helsinki), as well as Finnish premieres of Philip Glass’s chamber operas In the Penal Colony and Les Enfants Terribles. Originally a cellist, Sasha Mäkilä studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy (Finland) and at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory (Russia). After completing a three-year tenure at Orchestre National de France as maestro Kurt Masur’s assistant he was nominated a Conducting Fellow at the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen. Mäkilä is a prizewinner of the Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition (USA, 2006), and in 2013 the University of Helsinki presented him with the Pacius Award for his contributions to Finnish musical life. During the season 18-19 Sasha Mäkilä will conduct his debut at the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, and return to Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Pärnu City Orchestra and Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. He will take the Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra on tours in Finland and in China, and conduct the opera premieres of Pacius’ Kung Karls Jakt and Rautavaara’s Auringon talo in Helsinki.
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Benjamin Nadel

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Member Bio Benjamin Nadel is a classically trained conductor, pianist, and violinist. Based in Chicago, he is the Associate Conductor and Orchestra Librarian for the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra and New Philharmonic. He is also the Orchestra Director at North Central College. Since he began these positions, he has conducted on a wide variety of programs and has prepared hundreds of pieces across both the classical and pops repertoires. Fall of 2022 marked his first season as the conductor of the Northwest Indiana Youth Symphony Orchestra. Nadel began his conducting studies with Dr. Glenn Block at Illinois State University while completing his undergraduate degree in Music Education. He then went on to receive his MA in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Iowa with Dr. William LaRue Jones. While pursuing his degrees, he had the opportunity both assist and conduct several operatic productions, including Candide, La bohéme, La clemenza di Tito, and Iolanthe. He also participated in several summer music festivals, one of which was Cincinnati Conservatory’s program as a part of the summer music festival in Spoleto, Italy. From 2011–2015 Nadel spent his summers with the Midwest Institute of Opera, where he was assistant conductor to Maestro Joshua Greene of the Metropolitan Opera. While there, he had the occasion to conduct both full concert and stage productions of Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Carmen. He also assisted and coached for productions of Die Zauberflöte and La Cenerentola. Aside from his work as a professional conductor, Nadel also has a very strong connection and personal interest in music education. He believes that one of the most important aspects of being an artist is to pass along that experience and knowledge to the next generation of musicians. To that end, Nadel has worked with several high school ensembles in the Chicago area, including New Trier, Metea Valley, Glenbard West, and Stevenson High School. He has led some of these groups in side by side concerts with the New Philharmonic. He has also run conducting workshops for the Opus Chamber Music camp, as well as Illinois State University.
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Dr. Reiner Nägele Reiner Nagele Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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