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Paul J Olivo Paul Olivo San Jose State University School of Music and Dance

San Jose State University School of Music and Dance
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Christian Olson

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Member Bio Christian Olson is a versatile and innovative conductor who has led stirring performances to critical acclaim. In the summer of 2024 Mr. Olson served as the Assistant Conductor at the 2024 Glimmerglass Festival where he stepped in on short notice to conduct a performance of Pagliacci. In 2025, he is slated to be the AAF Faber Conducting Fellow at the Salzburg Festspiele where he was handpicked by members of the Vienna Philharmonic. Previously, he has served as the Conducting Fellow with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and as the assistant conductor at both the Chicago Summer Opera and the Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater. In 2024, Mr. Olson founded the Ver Sacrum Consort in New York City, a chamber ensemble sharing music both old and new. He currently serves as the Assistant Conductor for the Greenwich Village Orchestra. He has participated in the Ferenc Fricsay International Conducting Competition, the Lányi International Conducting Competition, the Lake Como International Conducting Competition, the German Institute of Conducting Competition and was named a Finalist in the Respighi Conducting Competition. He has also been featured in a PBS documentary on the life of Thomas Wilkins. Conductors he has studied under and worked with include Sir Roger Norrington, Franz Welser-Möst, Stéphane Denève, Robert Spano, Nicolás Pasquet, and Carl St. Clair. His primary teachers include Arthur Fagen, Thomas Wilkins, and Dr. Paul C. Phillips. Singers he has performed and worked with include Tara Erraught, Troy Cook, Amber Monroe, Robert Stahley, and Deepa Johnny. In addition to his conducting engagements, Mr. Olson is in demand as a vocal coach of young singers in a wide array of operatic and art song repertoire, and has worked with singers who have gone on to be featured performers at the Tanglewood Music Center, LA Opera, the Opéra national de Paris, the Dutch National Opera, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opera Philadelphia, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, and Merola, among many others. Mr. Olson studied musicology at the University of North Texas and is currently pursuing his DMA in conducting at Indiana University.
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Victoria Olson

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Darryl One

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Member Bio Born in Chicago, Illinois, Mr. One began his career in mathematics at Illinois State University and subsequently changed his major to music. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in composition and later attended Indiana University, completing a masters in conducting. He participated in the Hans Swarowksy Conducting Competition in Vienna and was invited to attend Erich Leinsdorf’s Symposium for Young Conductors in Aspen, Colorado. Mr. One has recorded a number of new American works for the American Symphony Orchestra League’s American Music Project with the Denver Symphony and the Oregon Symphony. He was also one of four conductors invited to conduct the New World Symphony in Miami for the American Repertoire Project, a program designed to highlight young conductors in America. Mr. One became Music Director of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in Texas in 1995 and Music Director of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra in 2000. During his tenure in Modesto, he doubled the number of concerts the orchestra performed. With innovative combinations of thematic programming, staging, lighting, and concert formats, the orchestra has increased its audience while maintaining a high level of performance. More importantly, Mr. One has raised the artistic level of the orchestra, building it through repertoire and rehearsal techniques. He has built the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in the same way and has been the longest running Music Director in the orchestra's history. Many past members of the orchestra who began their orchestral careers with the VSO have gone on to careers with large regional and major orchestras. Mr. One’s dedication and constant support has allowed the symphony to maintain its mission to enrich, entertain, educate, and inspire through symphonic concerts of the highest possible artistic quality.
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Vincent Oppido

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Member Bio A rising talent in Hollywood, Vincent Oppido’s music has been performed and recorded in Europe and Japan, and across the United States from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood scoring stages of Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures Studios. Oppido’s recent scoring credits include Magic the Gathering: Wizards of the Coast, Fortnite, the indie films Alien Code (Archstone/Sony Home Pictures – starring Kyle Gallner and Richard Schiff), Watch the Sky (Breaking Glass Pictures – starring Renee O’Connor), and the CollegeHumor series Troopers: Rise of the Budget. He has also composed additional music for projects including Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars: Squadrons, Jedi Temple Challenge, Star Wars: Hunters, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and TruTV’s Adam Ruins Everything: Reanimated History. Other writing credits include original music for Sinclair Oil’s 2017 commercial advertisements and musical source arrangements for projects such as It Happened In LA (Sundance Selected) and the Paramount Pictures film What Men Want. He also provided musical arrangements for the 2021 Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Show and the 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Also an orchestrator and conductor, Oppido has worked on projects such as Fortnite, Cobra Kai, The Suicide Squad, League of Legends, Age of Empires, Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2, and NBC’s Timeless. His first job in Hollywood, as a music proofreader, enabled him to work on dozens of motion pictures and television shows including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Frozen, Family Guy and The 2013 Oscars. In addition to work in film and television, Oppido has received numerous commissions for the concert hall, garnering performances in such prestigious venues including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Symphony Hall in Boston and Carnegie Hall. His most recent work, A Cosmic Perspective, was commissioned and premiered by The United States Air Force Band of the West. Vincent collaborated on this work with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson who composed an original text. In December 2018 his work, Cosmic Escapades, was premiered by The United States Army Band at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. Past commissions include Fanfare to an American Heritage for the United States Army Bugle Corps, An American Expedition for the Montana All-State Orchestra, and New York, New York: Postcards for Home for the Nassau Music Educators Association Division V All-County Band. Oppido also composed Patriot Pride, George Mason University’s alma mater and arranged an overture for Brian Stokes Mitchell’s concert show. His most recent commission for Alto Saxophone Solo and Wind Ensemble, Three Happenings While Walking Down Main Street, will receive its premiere by the United States Air Force Band in 2024. Originally from Long Island, New York, Vincent studied conducting and composition at George Mason University with Anthony Maiello and Mark Camphouse and was invited to attend the Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program at the University of Southern California. He was selected as a 2012 participant in the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis and also spent a summer studying at the Aspen Music Festival. Oppido is a member of ASCAP.
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Mr. Joseph Ordaz

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Member Bio Recognized in the Bay Area as both a conductor, pianist and educator, Joseph Ordaz is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Mission College Symphony in Santa Clara, California. He is also the Artistic Director and Conductor of the California Concerto Weekend for Amateur Pianists. Other orchestras that he has recently led in performance include the Berlin Sinfonietta, Winchester Orchestra, New Bridge Chamber Orchestra, Ohlone Symphony Orchestra San Francisco State University Symphony and Mercer Symphony. He has worked with many of the top conductors including Gustav Meier, Jorma Panula, John Farrerr, Diane Wittry, Donald Thulean, Adrian Gnam, Daniel Lewis, Marin Alsop, Joann Falletta, Jorge Mester, Kirk Trevor, Harold Farbermann, Mitchell Sardou Klein and William LaRue Jones. He has actively participated in workshops including the London Conductor's Workshop at the Royal Academy of Music, International Conductor's Workshop's in Berlin, Germany; Conductor's Guild Workshop's with the Buffalo Philharmonic and at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music; California Conducting Institute with the Bakersfield Symphony, "Beyond the Baton" workshop with the Norwalk Symphony and others. Joseph began studying the piano at age eight with Faith Peterman while growing up in Gilroy, CA. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree from San Jose State University and his Master of Music Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He studied piano with John Delavoryas and Alfred Kanwishcer at SJSU, Milton and Peggy Salkind at SFCM, and Miyoko Lotto in New York. He has also studied harpsichord with Laurette Goldberg at SFCM and Stephen Mello at SJSU. He has performed as piano soloist with the Ft. Worth Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, Nova Vista Symphony, Mission Chamber Orchestra, Mission College Symphony, South Valley Symphony, San Jose State University Symphony, and New England Symphonic Ensemble, and at the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute and University of Maryland International Piano Festival. From 1991 - 2001, Mr. Ordaz also performed as a member of the Monterey Symphony and has performed in numerous recitals throughout the Bay Area including solo and chamber music. Mr. Ordaz frequently serves as an adjudicator for competitions including the Stanford University Orchestra Concerto Competition, Young Pianist's Beethoven Competition at SJSU, Nova Vista Symphony Young Artist Competition, Marian Filice Young Pianist Competition at Gavilan College, Musicappasionata at West Chester University and as Coordinator of the Olympiad of the Arts Piano Competition at West Valley College. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Steinway Society - The Bay Area and presented pre-concert lectures for their concert series. Mr. Ordaz has previously taught at Gavilan and Foothill Colleges and for over ten years served as Chair of the Music Department at Mission College in Santa Clara, CA where he has been on the faculty since 1997.
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Carlos Ortiz Alcocer

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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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