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Alyce Mott
VHSource, LLC
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Member Bio Alyce Mott is proud to have assembled this talented roster and showcase the exquisite music of Victor Herbert. She became a Herbert librettist in 1995 with Babes In Toyland in Avery Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center) for the Little Orchestra Society of New York and now has more than a dozen new Herbert librettos to her credit. Mott became a Herbert director with the composer’s Fortune Teller in 1998 in Alice Tully Hall for the Little Orchestra Society and a Herbert publisher (on-line digital original performance materials) in 2008 with the founding of VHSource, LLC. She enjoyed a fifteen year Herbert collaboration with the talented conductor, the late Dino Anagnost. Mott became a NYC producer with the highly successful first full reading in 100 years of Victor Herbert’s grand opera Natoma with full union orchestra. That event launched the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE! She remains the only producer to have presented both of Herbert’s operas in New York City: Natoma in 2014 and Madeleine in 2020. A member of the Dramatist Guild, Society of Directors and Choreographers, Actors Equity Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, Ms. Mott holds degrees from Bowling Green State University, Siena Heights University (MI) and the University of Michigan.
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Dr. Wendy Moy
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Member Bio Wendy K. Moy is a dual assistant professor of music education in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University. Moy teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in music education, conducting, rehearsal techniques, and choral literature, and directs the Concert Choir in the Setnor School of Music. Prior to joining Syracuse University, Moy was an associate professor of music at Connecticut College from 2013-2020, where she was the director of choral activities and head of music education. From 2012-2013, she was an instructor at Tacoma Community College, serving as the director of choral activities and teaching courses in music education. Before moving to the East Coast, Moy conducted the University of Washington Women’s Chorus and the Seattle Pacific University Chamber Singers. She also taught orchestra, choir, and jazz choir at the secondary level in the Edmonds School District from 1999-2010. Her ensembles were invited to perform at the Northwest Music Educators and Washington Music Educators Association Conferences. Moy is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the professional chamber ensemble, Chorosynthesis Singers. They recently released on the Centaur Records label Empowering Silenced Voices, a 2-CD collection of new music on themes of social consciousness and established the Empowering Silenced Voices Database for Socially Conscious Choral Music. A strong advocate for collaboration and new music, Moy has premiered and commissioned numerous new works. She also sings soprano in Chorosynthesis Singers and 21V. Moy has also served as the director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus and the artistic director of the Hartford Gay Men’s Chorus. A violinist since age four, she was a violin coach, chamber music coordinator, and assistant conductor with the Cascade Youth Symphony Organization. Moy studied orchestral conducting with Eric Hanson and Kenneth Kiesler and made her debut with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Moy is a frequent clinician and guest conductor with ensembles of all levels. Passionate about mentoring and inspiring young musicians, she has conducted the Rhode Island All-State Senior High School Chorus, Massachusetts All State Choir, New York Zone 2 Senior High Area All State Treble Choir, Connecticut Eastern Region High School Honor Choir, Heartland High School Honor Choir, Northshore Junior High Honor Orchestra, and Edmonds Elementary Honor Choir. Selected as an American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) International Conducting Fellow, Moy made her international conducting debut with the Coral da Universidade Federal da Gazzi de Sá at the Festival Paraibano de Coros in João Pessoa, Brazil. She soon followed this with her Asia conducting debut in Shenzhen, China. In 2024, Moy returned to João Pessoa as the Festival Paraibano de Coros headliner. She is looking forward to her Carnegie Hall conducting debut in May 2025. Moy's research focuses on the culture of singing communities, cultivating social capital in successful choral organizations, and fostering belonging through socially conscious music. She has presented her research at national conferences sponsored by the ACDA; Chorus America, National Collegiate Choral Organization Conference; College Music Society; GALA Choruses; National Association for Music Education (NAfME); and the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research. Oxford University Press published her ethnographic study on the Seattle Men’s Chorus in "Together in Music: Coordination, Expression, Participation." Routledge will soon release her book "Resurrecting Song: A Pathway Forward for the Choral Art in the Time of Pandemics." She writes for the NAfME Music in a Minuet blog and has been interviewed for featured articles in the Choral Journal, The Voice of Chorus America, the Classical Singer Magazine, and Teaching Music Journal on entrepreneurship and culture-building in the choral arts. Moy's honors include being selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Bach Institute in Germany, the Westminster Chamber Choir with Joe Miller, the Tallis Scholar Summer School with Peter Phillips, the Carnegie Hall Choral Institute/Transient Glory Symposium as a conducting associate with Francisco Nuñez, and the Yale/Norfolk Chamber Choir under the direction of Simon Carrington. She was named the third place winner of The American Prize in Choral Conducting, professional division in 2017. Under her co-direction, Chorosynthesis Singers was named the second place winner of The American Prize in Choral Performance, professional division, with a special citation for Extraordinary Commitment to New Music in 2018. Moy serves on the ACDA Standing Committee on International Activities and the New York ACDA Research and Resource Board as research co-chair. She evaluates grants for the National Endowment for the Arts and Chorus America.
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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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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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