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Josh Pace

Lee University
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Member Bio Dr. Josh Pace is currently the Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music Education at Lee University where he oversees all aspects of the band program, directs the Lee University Wind Ensemble, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and music education. Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Pace received his Bachelor’s in Music Education from Grace University. In addition to studying piano, percussion, and voice at Grace, he also pursued his passion for ministry and earned a degree in Biblical Education. Pace started his teaching career as the band and orchestra director at Omaha Northwest High School in Nebraska. He taught high school marching band, concert bands, jazz band, string orchestra, keyboard, percussion, and guitar classes. He was also the recipient of the CHI Health Top Teacher Award and the Nebraska State Bandmasters Jack Snider Young Band Director Award. Pace earned his Master of Music Education degree from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Instrumental Conducting with a Cognate in Educational Leadership from the University of Florida. He currently lives in Cleveland, Tennessee with his wife, Marisa, two sons, Josiah and William, and third on the way.
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Steven Palincsar

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Member Bio Steven Palincsar is equally at home as both accomplished violinist and pianist, chamber and orchestral musician, conductor, and violin teacher extraordinaire, joining the violin faculty at Midwest Young Artists in Highwood, Illinois in Fall 2009. His students have twice been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall. Recently, he and a colleague, Margaret Pressley, who is director of the Seattle Conservatory, presented an audition preparation workshop for the American String Teachers Association National Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Between them, they have had students accepted to nearly every major music school in the US, including the Aspen Music School, Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University, The Juilliard School, University of Michigan, and University of Southern California. A native Chicagoan, Steven Palincsar had his first piano lessons at age seven and began violin studies shortly thereafter, making his debut at the age of twelve. Winner of the Chicago Park District Music Award, he went on to studies at some of the nation’s top music schools including the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and The Juilliard School, as well as at the Meadowmount School of Music. He has performed extensively throughout the US and in Europe, appearing both in recital, with orchestra, on radio, and as chamber musician and conductor. In Chicago, he has played both at Grant Park and Orchestra Hall. A graduate of The School for Strings’ Two-Year Suzuki Violin Teacher-Training Program in New York under Louise Behrend, he has taught on the faculty of The School for Strings in it’s prestigious Start-Up Program, which provides full-scholarship studies for minority and underprivileged pupils. He is a Registered Suzuki Violin Teacher (through Level Eight) with the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and is a Life Member of the Association. Recently, Steven Palincsar has been named as the first Haynes Family Distinguished Master-Teacher of Violin Studies, and has received a Certificate of Appreciation from the American String Teachers Association “in recognition of gratitude for contributions to the advancement of string teaching and playing.”
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Nick Palmer

Altoona Symphony and North Charleston Pops
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Member Bio Nick Palmer has been widely recognized for his compelling performances, visionary leadership and emotional connection to audiences and is regarded as one of the most talented symphonic and Pops conductors on the scene today. Maestro Palmer — Music Director of the Lafayette Symphony in Indiana, the North Charleston POPS! in South Carolina, the Evening Under the Stars Music Festival in Massachusetts, and Principal Pops Conductor of the Altoona Symphony in Pennsylvania—was a recipient of the Helen M. Thompson Award from the League of American Orchestras as the nation’s most outstanding young music director. Under Palmer’s direction since 2007, the LSO has experienced increased ticket sales, dynamic and creative programming, a marked development in educational programs and regional concerts, and dramatic artistic growth. Dick Jaeger commented in the Journal & Courier “without trepidation this reviewer is ready to state that the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra and conductor are setting the bar higher and higher for other regional orchestras around the state and Midwest”. FORMER MUSIC DIRECTOR Owensboro Symphony Altoona Symphony Dubuque Symphony Clinton Symphony Nashville Ballet Heartland Ballet
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Noah Palmer

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Member Bio Conductor Noah Palmer is one of the Capital Region’s most in-demand collaborators. Noah was most recently appointed Artistic Director of Saratoga Voices, an 80-voice choir in Saratoga Springs, NY. He is the Assistant Director and Accompanist for Albany Pro Musica, Assistant Conductor of Concerts in the Village, in Kinderhook, NY, and the Artistic Director of Music at Trinity Lenox. In 2018, Noah made his orchestral conducting debuts with both Concerts in the Village and Albany Pro Musica, following his opera debut with the Midwest Institute of Opera in 2015. As a choral conductor Noah has led, among other groups, Albany Pro Musica, Saratoga Voices, the Battenkill Chorale, the Northern Berkshire Chorale, the Sage Singers, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus. In 2016, Noah was the Chorus Master at the prestigious Merola Opera Program with the San Francisco Opera. In addition to conducting, Noah is an accomplished vocal coach and pianist. He has worked with several regional opera companies, including Sarasota Opera and Opera North. In 2021, Noah was the principal coach and rehearsal pianist for Tom Cipullo’s “Glory Denied” at the Berkshire Opera Festival and was subsequently invited back in 2022 for their production of Jake Heggie’s “Three Decembers”. Noah has performed with some of the Capital Region’s finest singers, including Andrew Boisvert, Vedrana Kalas, Sylvia Stoner, Irina Petrik, and the late Kevin Kees. In 2022, he accompanied violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn in a vibrant program of Russian and Polish music at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. As an educator, Noah was the Choral Director at Skidmore College in Spring 2021, where he led the college’s two choral ensembles through a series of innovative virtual performances during the COVID-19 pandemic. In collaboration with soprano, Sylvia Stoner, Noah also directs the Skidmore College Opera Workshop. Noah studied conducting with John Yaffe and Steve Osgood and attended conducting masterclasses with Markand Thakar, Christopher Zimmerman, Mark Gibson, and David Effron. Noah studied piano with the renowned Spanish pianist Jose Ramon Mendez at NYU (BA), and Bulgarian pianist Pavlina Dokovska at the Mannes School of Music (MM). Noah has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Europe, and China.
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Mr. Karl Pang

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Sam Pang

Hope College
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Member Bio Samuel Pang is an Assistant Professor of Music and the Director of Orchestras at Hope College, Holland, MI. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Pang is a conductor, violist, educator, and worship music coordinator. Pang holds a Master of Music degree, a Bachelor of Music degree, and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Pang studied viola performance with Professor Carol Rodland and orchestral conducting with Professor Neil Varon at the Eastman School of Music. As the first-prize winner of the Eastman Viola Concerto competition, Pang made his concerto debut at the Eastman Theatre as a freshman. Subsequently, Pang was awarded every viola and chamber music scholarship and award at the Eastman School during his bachelor of music degree program. As a conductor, Pang served as the founding artistic director of the Hong Kong Festival Orchestra from 2009 to 2011. From 2012 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2020, Pang served as the orchestra director of the DBS Symphony Orchestra. Radio Television Hong Kong broadcasted several of his award-winning performances on television, including Mahler Symphony No. 5, Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, Brahms Symphony No. 2, and Richard Strauss’ Don Juan. Pang has performed in conducting masterclasses for Carl St.Clair, David Zinman, Marin Alsop, Christoph Koncz, and Kristjan Järvi, amongst other world-renowned artists. He has conducted symphony orchestras in prominent concert halls worldwide, including the Musikverein in Vienna, Vigadó Concert Hall in Budapest, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Smetana Hall in Prague, and Carnegie Hall in New York. As an educator, Pang received an honorable mention from Hope College for the 2024 Vanderbush Weller Award, recognizing his efforts to go above and beyond in the service of students as a professor. While Hope College “does not ordinarily present this award to faculty in their first year of service,” the College chose to grant Pang an honorable mention after receiving an unprecedented 51 nominations from students. Pang has also served as a guest lecturer, adjudicator, and conductor in various universities worldwide, including the University of Vienna, the University of Hong Kong, Western Illinois University, and Trinity Western University in Canada. Pang takes inspiration from Leonard Bernstein’s belief in the importance of “inter-disciplinary values—that the best way to ‘know’ a thing is in the context of another discipline.” In 2021, this idea drove Pang to begin studying theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC, where he is working on his Master of Theological Studies degree. As a professor, Pang seeks to integrate his training as a conductor, teacher, and theology student and further develop the education and music work he has been doing globally to help communities find greater commonality with one another in countering an increasingly dehumanizing and divided world.
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Ramona Pansegrau

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Member Bio Ramona Pansegrau has been music director for Kansas City Ballet for 18 years. She came to Kansas City via the Boston and Tulsa ballet companies, where she held the positions of principal pianist, solo pianist, music director and conductor. She has been called one of the best ballet pianists in the world. Robert Joffrey said of her ballet class, “The perfect music for every combination.” She was principal pianist/solo pianist for 10 years at Boston Ballet and tenured keyboard for the Boston Ballet Orchestra for 15 years. Ms. Pansegrau was on the faculty at Aspen/Snowmass Dance Festival for 11 years and was music director for the ballet school at Jacob’s Pillow for 16 years. She was music director for Tulsa Ballet for nine years, and conductor of the Tulsa Symphony orchestra for ballet performances before coming to Kansas City Ballet. Ms. Pansegrau conducted the premiere of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra with a full-length Sleeping Beauty, starring Italian ballerina Viviana Durante. Her performances were hailed as “giving life to the music and energizing the dancers.” Conducting for the Ballet Across America Festival, The Washington Post stated, “There is a delicious tension between the outpouring of the strings conducted by Ms. Pansegrau and the hushed anxiety of the dancing.” The Kansas City Star said Ms. Pansegrau’s Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was conducted with “heartrending sensitivity.” The Orlando Sentinel commented regarding Swan Lake, “…Pansegrau, music director for the Kansas City Ballet, helps Tchaikovsky’s music breathe with emotion reflecting what’s onstage….That gorgeous sound is something I’ll remember.” Regarding Don Quixote, they said, “As conducted by Ramona Pansegrau, the Philharmonic captured each bit of Spanish flair in Ludwig Minkus’ score, as well as the longing in the characters’ hearts. The Phil’s contribution to the electricity in the air can’t be overstated.” As a piano soloist for ballet, she has performed the piano concertos of Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Gottschalk, Hindemith, and Chopin to name a few, performing with many symphony orchestras, including the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra. Of her performances, the Boston Phoenix stated, “the music…brought to sublime heights by pianist Ramona Pansegrau, allow[ing] you to experience the music anew each time.” Her arrangements of ballets are in the repertory of Ballet West, Colorado Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Louisville Ballet, Washington Ballet, the San Carlo Opera House in Italy, NBA Ballet in Japan, and the Finnish National Ballet. Her edited and compiled score of Penderecki, Gorecki, and others for Jekyll & Hyde, a ballet by Val Caniparoli, premiered in Finland in 2020 to great acclaim, and she conducted the American premiere in Kansas City in October 2023. Her most recent score for the full-length ballet Aladdin and the Magic Carpet, with choreographer Jill Bahr premiered April 2022. Ms. Pansegrau’s other ongoing engagements include collaborating with Val Caniparoli for a new world premiere ballet for National Ballet of Canada in 2027 and returning for the 30th year as music director and conductor for the USA International Ballet Competition in 2027.
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Dr. Harlan Parker

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Member Bio Harlan Parker has been the conductor of the Peabody Wind Ensemble and Coordinator of the Music Education Division at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University since the fall of 1990. Additionally, he held the position of Music Director/Conductor of the Peabody Youth Orchestra between 2007 and 2016. During that time, the Peabody Youth Orchestra grew from approximately 35 members to close to 90. In the fall of 2013, he became the founding conductor of the Peabody Modern Orchestra, an ensemble focusing primarily on repertoire of the past 20 years. He was also appointed as Music Director/Conductor of the Greenspring Valley Orchestra in the summer of 2017. Under his direction, the Peabody Wind Ensemble has given over 40 world premieres, and has performed at state, regional and national conventions. Considered “among the very top wind bands in the US” (Fanfare), the Peabody Wind Ensemble has received critical acclaim from contemporary composers such as David Amram, James Syler, H. O. Reed, and Johan de Meij. Their debut CD, From an Antique Land, has been praised as one of the most exciting wind ensemble recordings in recent times and the second CD, Orff, Bird and Reed, was re-released in August 2006 on the Naxos label. Of the performance of La Fiesta Mexicana on the second CD, composer, H. Owen Reed in a letter to Dr. Parker writes, “I have just listened, twice, to your brilliant recording of my La Fiesta Mexicana, and I must tell you that it was a thrill to hear my music performed exactly as I always hoped for. Your total understanding of the work showed up on all parameters. Your tempos were on the mark, and the overall conception of the work was superb.” The Orff, Bird and Reed CD was also listed on the “Best of the Year Discs for 2006” by Audiophile Audition. Their second CD for Naxos, Collage: A Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Peabody Institute: 1857 – 2007, was the top classical music download (out of more than 12,000 CDs) on eMusic.com for the first half of April 2007. Their third CD for Naxos, Trendsetters, was released in the summer of 2009. The fourth CD on Naxos, Johan de Meij: The Symphonies, was released to critical acclaim in June 2013, and was a Grammy nominee. As well as his duties at Peabody, Dr. Parker has a very active musical life outside of the Institute. He is a Past-President of The Conductors Guild, an international service organization dedicated to encouraging and promoting the highest standards in the art and profession of conducting. Dr. Parker is also a member The American Bandmasters Association, an organization whose membership is by invitation and recognizes “outstanding achievement in the field of the concert band and its music.” He is active regionally, nationally and internationally as a guest conductor, conducting pedagogue, clinician and adjudicator, having worked with professional musicians and students from all 50 states and over 40 countries.
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Jesus Parra

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Member Bio Jesús Parra is forging a successful path in the challenging art of captivating audiences with his baton. A student of Maestro José Antonio Abreu, Gustavo Dudamel, and Pablo Castellanos, to name a few, this young man promises to make Venezuela proud when he joins El Sistema's tour in Milan this August. We spoke with the energetic Jesús Parra, born in La Victoria, Aragua State, an example of motivation and hope for young Venezuelan musicians. Jesús Alberto Parra Montenegro was born in La Victoria, Aragua State. He began his musical studies at the age of 10 with the José Félix Ribas Youth and Children's Symphony Orchestra, La Victoria branch. Initially drawn to the violin, his interests shifted to the viola and orchestral conducting at the age of 12. His orchestral conducting teachers have been Alfredo Ascanio and Yenny Noguera, who have been joined by a number of prominent figures in the music world. He has also received orchestral conducting training under the tutelage of Maestro José Antonio Abreu, Gustavo Dudamel, Christian Vásquez, Pablo Castellanos, Andrés González, Miguel Ángel Monroy, Mario Benzecry, Henry Crespo, Dietrich Paredes, and others. He currently studies at the Simón Bolívar Conservatory of Music and attends the Montalbán Academic Program, where he studies with teachers such as Gregory Carreño, Violeta Lares, Franka Verhagen, and Tupac Amaru, among others. He has also participated as a guest conductor with orchestras such as the Montalbán, San Agustín, and La Rinconada Children's Symphony Orchestras (with Maestro Plácido Domingo), the Maracay, San Sebastián, San Vicente, Colonia Tovar, Las Tejerías, and La Victoria Children's and Youth Symphony Orchestras, the National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Valencia Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the San Antonio de los Altos Youth Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has performed concerts for the Simón Bolívar Children's Foundation and numerous other events. It features Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and Maestro José Antonio Abreu as guest conductors, ambassadors from Vienna and Spain, etc. At his young age, he has been a Guest Conductor with professional orchestras such as the Aragua Symphony Orchestra. Furthermore, I participated in the European tour (2010), the South American tour (2011), and the European tour (2011), where I was a guest conductor in Turkey with the Simón Bolívar Venezuelan Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel. I also participated in the Los Angeles tour (USA), the Edinburgh-Stirling tour, where Jesús Parra made his London debut, and the US tour at Carnegie Hall in New York (2012) with the Simón Bolívar Venezuelan Youth Symphony Orchestra. Later, I toured Portugal and Norway (2012) with the Caracas Youth Symphony Orchestra (of which I am currently a member), and then toured Europe (2012). In January 2013, Jesús Parra conducted 800 musicians in a concert of solidarity with the late President of Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías. Likewise, this young man participated in one of the most important festivals of the classical genre in the “Salzburg Festival”, in which he was director of the National Children's Symphony Orchestra sharing the podium with the acclaimed Director of the Berlin Philharmonic Sir Simon Rattle.This young talent's international participation culminated with the 2013 Japan-Korea (Asia) Tour, this time as a performer with the Caracas Youth Symphony Orchestra. Finally, Jesús Parra closed out 2013 with a significant contribution to the culture of the José Félix Ribas Municipality in Aragua State, conducting Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet with the La Victoria Youth Symphony Orchestra and the La Victoria Ballet in a concert open to the entire La Victoria community—a first for the ballet in Aragua State.
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Elisa Patria

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