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Dr. Donald Portnoy

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Member Bio Donald Portnoy is universally recognized as one of America's dynamic and inspiring symphony orchestra conductors. He brings to music a unique awareness and appreciation for the audience and a refreshing sensitivity toward the musicians with whom he works. He has earned fame as guest conductor with the major orchestras of Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Buffalo and with other major regional orchestras throughout the United States, Argentina, Brazil, China, England, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, South Korea, Italy, Romania and Switzerland. Dr. Portnoy has served as music director and conductor of the Pittsburgh Opera Theater and the Pittsburgh Civic Symphony. The China Opera and Dance Symphony in Beijing and the Harbin Orchestra appointed him principal guest conductor for the 2002-2004 seasons. In March 2004, Dr. Portnoy received Columbia University’s 2004 Ditson Conductor’s Award for his commitment to the performance of works by American composers. In June 2004, he was awarded the Greater Augusta Arts Council “Artist of the Year” Award. Dr. Portnoy holds the Ira McKissick Koger Endowed Chair for the Fine Arts for the University of South Carolina where he is director of orchestral studies and conductor of the USC Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. He is the founder and director of the renowned Conductors Institute, whose participants come from all parts of the United States and abroad to attend annual summer sessions in Columbia and Charleston (Spoleto Festival), South Carolina, and in Argentina. In May 20012, he traveled to China to guest conduct the orchestra in Beijing and Hangzou. As music director and conductor of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival Orchestra, he conducted the orchestra in three performances during the festival. In December and January, 2013, Dr. Portnoy will conduct orchestras in Beijing, Xeimain and Kumming, China and will also conduct masterclasses in South Korea and Taiwan.
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Rick Prakhoff

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Member Bio Conducting was the obvious choice for Rick to allow him to perform the music which first engaged him as a child. It was during his second extended stay in London, seeking a career as a classical guitarist, that he realised he had heard far more orchestral, choral and operatic performances than guitar concerts. Conducting was the only career path which would allow him to finally perform the repertoire he truly loved. Rick returned to his home town of Perth to study as a conducting major for his BMus at the WA Conservatorium of Music (WAAPA) before moving to Melbourne to seek out performance opportunities. His training continued through the Symphony Australia Young Conductor programme where for five years he studied intensively with renowned conducting teachers Gustav Meier (Switzerland/USA), Noam Sherif (Israel), Vernon Handley (UK) and Johannes Fritsch (Germany/Australia) with the WA Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Queensland SO, Adelaide SO and the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra. Rick has conducted extensively in Australia with ensembles including Melbourne Opera, The Sydney Youth Orchestra, Zelman Symphony, Melbourne Sinfonia, Stonnington Symphony amongst others. Since 2009, Rick has been a sessional lecturer in conducting and conductor of the now 300 plus choir for the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, where he continues his advocacy of thorough training of young conductors in orchestral, choral and operatic repertoire and techniques. In 2014, following the passing of revered conductor and conducting teacher John Hopkins the previous year, Rick was honoured to be invited to continue the very successful and popular Honours conducting course previously run by Hopkins. Rick has an extensive orchestral, operatic and choral repertoire ranging from baroque through to contemporary works and he has a particular interest in adapting historical techniques and performance practice to the contemporary orchestra. Rick formed the highly successful 150 voice Melbourne Bach Choir in 2006 and was appointed as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra at the start of 2018. He is delighted to conduct a performance of Mahler Symphony No 2 “Resurrection” with the MBC and the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra on 10th September 2023 at the Melbourne Town Hall.
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Ashley Pratz

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Member Bio Ashley Pratz is a Baltimore-based clarinetist, conductor, and educator who uses her passion for music to educate and connect with audiences. Pratz is currently pursuing her master's degree at the Peabody Conservatory, studying clarinet under the direction of Alexander Fiterstein and Conducting under Dr. Harlan D. Parker. Noted to have a unique sensitivity to her sound on the clarinet, Pratz has performed in a variety of solo and ensemble- based settings. Her notable performances include serving as clarinetist in the Mount Vernon Trio, principal clarinetist for Peabody Symphony’s Spring 2025 performance of Dvorak Symphony No. 8, bass clarinetist for Peabody Symphony Orchestra’s recording of composer Du Yun’s Mythology series under the baton of Marin Alsop, and various performances with the Eastern Music Festival and Saluzzo Opera Academy Orchestras. She has participated in masterclasses with clarinetists Sang Yoon Kim of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Mariam Adam of Imani Winds. As a conductor, Pratz is regarded for her clarity and musicality. She served as the assistant conductor for Peabody Music for New Media department’s production of the silent film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. In 2024, she was invited to guest conduct at Lime Kiln Middle School in Fulton, MD. Pratz had her conducting debut performance with the Peabody Wind Ensemble in November 2025. With a passion for education, Pratz is a MSDE-certified teacher. She takes great joy in working with students, and believes strongly in the ability of music education to not only expose students to music, but to foster strong connections and build qualities needed to succeed in today’s world.
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Glenn Price

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Member Bio Dr. Glenn D. Price has earned an international reputation as a leading conductor and educator through his experience conducting professional, student, and community symphony orchestras and wind ensembles in over 30 countries. He has conducted many renowned soloists, including Evelyn Glennie, Christian Lindberg, Ney Rosauro, Jens Lindemann, Alain Trudel, Roger Webster, Kenneth Tse, Adam Frey, Simone Rebello, David Campbell, John Marcellus and Michael Burritt. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, his profession as a noted percussionist gradually yielded to his career as a conductor, which included studies at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan and the Tanglewood Music Center in the U.S., as well as in Europe and Russia. Active as well as a composer and author, his comprehensive text on the art of conducting, titled The Eloquent Conductor, has earned considerable critical acclaim. His performing, teaching and conducting career has included full-time positions in Canada and the U.S., most notably as Professor of Music (Emeritus) at the University of Calgary, as Director of Wind Studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), and currently as the Director of Performing and Visual Arts at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Additionally, he is the conductor of TEMPO, a professional contemporary chamber ensemble based in Los Angeles.
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Charles Prince

Plainfield Symphony
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Member Bio Charles Prince studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He attended the Boston Symphony Orchestra's annual Tanglewood Music Festival in 1988 and 1989, taking master classes with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, and Kurt Sanderling. Other important teachers who got him started included Robert Page (Cleveland Orchestra) and Jorma Panula (Helsinki), one of the foremost conducting teachers in Europe. Today Charles Prince is a regular guest conductor of orchestras such as the Oregon Sympony Orchestra, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Kuopi Symphony in Finland, as well as the Canadian Brass with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. He was the musical director of the Bernstein Gala in PA Majestic Theatre, presented by Jamie Bernstein, and the Tony-Award production of James Joyce and Shaun Daveys' “The Dead” on Broadway, in Los Angeles and Washington. From 1996 to 2003, Charles Prince was Associate Conductor of the New York Pops. In this position, he brought several world-premiers of contemporary american composers to the stage of New York's Carnegie Hall. In Moscow, he conducted the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, playing Jan Sibelius' Symphony No. 4, Richard Strauss's “Till Eulenspiegel” and Claude Debussy's “La Mer.” Because of his european ancestry, Prince harbors a preference for Viennese classical music as well as the Viennese operetta. Thus, he returned often to Europe where he conducted the WDR Orchestra (Cologne and Essen, Germany), the Munich “Rundfunkorchester” and “Symphoniker,” the Philharmonic Orchestra of Sofia (Bulgaria), the Festival Orchestra in Verbier (Switzerland), and the Kärtner Symphonieorchestrer (Carinthia, Austria). In tribute to his father, Broadway director Hal Prince, Charles conducted “A Gala Concert for Hal Prince” with the Munich Radio Orchestra and an international ensemble of singers at the Munich Philharmonic in Gasteig, which was broadcast live over Bavarian radio and television, as well as recorded for a double-CD by First Night Records, London. Charles Prince was music director of Wiener Operettensommer in Vienna, Austria, and is the music director of the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra in Plainfield, New Jersey.
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Lee Prinz

Colbert Artists Management, Inc.
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Dr. Gregory Pritchard

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Member Bio Since 2010, Gregory Pritchard has served as the Music Director of the Gwinnett Symphony Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra in Georgia. Prior to this current post, he served as the Music Director of the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra (GA) for five seasons. With a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Michigan State University, Dr. Pritchard was a student of Leon Gregorian, Catherine Comet, and Elizabeth Green. He has had additional training with Gustav Meier, David Lobel, Neeme Jarvi, and Adrian Gnam as an active participant in American Symphony Orchestra League and Conductors Guild and other conducting workshops. He credits his musical sensitivity to his training in the Musin tradition with Leonid Korchmar and Peter Gribanov in St. Petersburg, Russia. ​ Dr. Pritchard's technical ability and natural rapport with the audience and orchestra alike have afforded him many opportunities over the past twenty-five years. He previously served as Music Director of Opera Company of Mid-Michigan, conducting acclaimed performances that include La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, The Bartered Bride, The Old Maid and the Thief, and Faust. He has also held faculty positions at Georgia State University, University of Evansville (IN), Indiana Wesleyan University, Taylor University (IN), Konservatori Seni Halus (Fine Arts Conservatory, Penang, Malaysia), and Hope College (MI). Additional conducting positions include Associate Conductor of the Kokomo Symphony Orchestra (IN), Music Director of the Holland Area Youth Orchestra (MI), Music Director of the Gwinnett County Youth Symphony (GA) and Assistant Conductor at the Music Festival of Arkansas and Southeastern Music Center (GA). Dr. Pritchard’s passion for music began as a young child and he has pursued it at every opportunity. He has studied every instrument in the orchestra at one point or another in his career. He holds a Woodwind Specialist Performance Degree from Michigan State University and has taught all five of the woodwinds at the college level—bassoon, saxophone, oboe, clarinet, and flute. Violin and viola are his primary string instruments and he taught exemplary string programs in the public schools for seventeen years. His extensive engagements around the globe as a bassoonist and saxophonist include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (GA), Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Fort Wayne Philharmonic (IN), Charleston Symphony Orchestra (SC), Penang State Symphony (Malaysia), Evansville Philharmonic (IN), Owensboro Symphony (KY), Lansing Symphony (MI), and Grand Rapids Symphony (MI). Some fun highlights include performing with Josh Groban on The Oprah Show and playing saxophone in concert with The Temptations. As a ballet orchestra performer, he currently serves as Principal Bassoonist with the Georgia Ballet and Gwinnett Ballet. He has guest conducted several ensembles throughout the United States, including the Ka
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James Procell James Procell University of Louisville

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Julien Proulx

Orchestre Symphonique de Drummondville
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Member Bio Recently appointed Artistic Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville, Julien Proulx is one of Canada’s most promising young conducting stars. After graduating from the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal, where he studied conducting with Jean-François Rivest and Paolo Bellomia, he undertook further studies in Europe with conductors Kirk Trevor, Tsung Yeh, Johannes Schlaeffi and Yves Cohen. Through a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, he participated in an opera conducting program at the Festival di Musica da Camera in Italy. Julien Proulx has conducted numerous leading ensembles. He was conductor-in-residence of I Musici de Montréal, which he often leads as guest conductor. He has also conducted Les Violons du Roy, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Chamber Orchestra of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, and many more. A versatile musician, he is also a recognized arranger whose work can be heard on several I Musici de Montréal recordings. Mr. Proulx is currently artistic director of the Sherbrooke Youth Orchestra and the Choeur de la Montagne.
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Gina Provenzano

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Member Bio Gina Provenzano is a graduate from the University of Michigan where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in both clarinet performance and music education. While attending the University of Michigan she had the privilege of studying with Robert Reynolds, Donald Schleicher and John Mohler. She performed with various ensembles, had the honor of marching at the Rose Bowl, and received the Michigan Alumni Music Scholarship. Ms. Provenzano earned her Master of Instrumental Conducting degree at the University of Maine. As a teacher assistant, she worked with the Symphonic Band and Marching Band and studied with Curvin Farnham. Ms. Provenzano has performed with various ensembles throughout her career including Highland Park Symphony, DuPage Symphony, Oak Park Symphony, Ethnos Chamber Orchestra, Ann Arbor Summer Symphony and was principal clarinetist for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. She began her career as a music/band teacher and has taught from elementary to college levels in both private and public schools in Chicago, Maine, and Michigan. She served on the Maine Music Educators Association Board as Orchestra VP and District Chair; guest conducted and adjudicated at district and state festivals; worked for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra as Education Coordinator and Librarian; and co-founded and conducted the Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestras. After returning to Michigan, Ms. Provenzano taught at Alma College and Nouvel High School; conducted the Warren Symphony; guest conducted and adjudicated at various schools; served on several orchestra boards; and was nominated for the State of Michigan Humanities Champion of the Year Award (2023). She currently lives in Midland where she has a private clarinet studio and is excited about the continued success of the MCO and the new MCO-Youth program. This year will be her 11th season as conductor of the Midland Community Orchestra.
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