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Ms. Michelle Rakers

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Member Bio American born conductor Michelle Rakers was the Senior Assistant Director for “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra from 2004 - 2018. In that capacity, she led the band and orchestra in countless high-profile programs at the White House, in Washington, D.C., and across the country. She conducted ensembles for White House State Dinners, advised and conducted ensembles for White House ceremonies, and led the band on many national tours. Ms. Rakers is in high demand as a conductor and clinician across the world. She has regularly conducted the Slesvigske Musikkorps in Denmark since 2014 and has conducted groups such as the Odense Symfoniorkester, Maryland Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony Brass, members of the Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, Prinsens Musikkorps, Helsinki Guards Band - Sotilasmusiikki, and the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. She was a resident at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2015 and 2016 and has been a guest conductor at many universities across the United States. Michelle is a natural on the podium with an elegant yet commanding conducting style, and her rehearsal technique is efficient and effective. Ms. Rakers began her musical training at the age of five with piano lessons and her professional music career at the age of ten, when she became the church organist for her town, Aviston, Illinois. She later focused her musical studies on the trumpet, which eventually led to opportunities performing in symphonies across the United States. Her career with the Marine Band began in 1998 after she won a national audition for a trumpet position. She then auditioned and was appointed to the Assistant Director’s position, becoming the first female conductor and first female commissioned officer in the history of “The President’s Own,” a position that she held since 2004. Throughout her tenure with the Marine Band, Ms. Rakers was an ardent supporter of educational outreach through her leadership of the organization’s education programs, including the creation of the national concerto competition for high school musicians. Ms. Rakers earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, her Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from Northwestern University, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Music Management from the University of Evansville. Additionally, Ms. Rakers received an Emmy® award for her part in producing the All-Star Orchestra program, “United States Marine Band New England Spirit.” She also received the “Distinguished Alumni” award from University of Evansville and she is an honorary inductee into Tau Beta Sigma, a National Honorary Band Sorority, receiving their “Outstanding Service to Music” award in 2010.
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Ilya Ram

Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio Israeli-American conductor Ilya Ram, praised for his charismatic and energetic performance by Crescendo-Magazine and his “expressive spontaneity” (Diaposon), is internationally sought-after for his creative new approach to classical music. Prize winner of the 5th Evgeny Svetlanov Competition in Montecarlo, Ram has recently been named the next Music Director of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, the fourth artistic leader in the organization's 91-year history. He has also served as Music Director of the Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg since the 23/24 season. Recent and upcoming highlights include performances with the Szczecin Filharmonia, Orquestra do Algarve, Orchestra Indiana, Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, Magdeburg Philharmoniker, Ensemble Tempus Konnex, Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Ra’anana Sinfonietta, Robert-Schumann Philharmonic, as well as being spotlighted by the IMPULS Festival for contemporary music to which he will returns in 24/25. He had the pleasure of working with soloists such as Pekka Kuusisto, Kristīne Balanas, Amandine Savary, Ilian Garnetz, Ildikó Szabó and Charlotte Thiele, to name a few. Equally comfortable in the pit as on stage, Ram made his Semperoper Dresden debut and return premiering Zad Moultaka’s “Drei Miese, fiese Kerle”. He was Guest Resident Conductor at the Theater Chemnitz for the 19/20 season where he led the revival of Udo Zimmermann’s Weiße Rose and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. As scholarship holder of the Akademie-Musiktheater-Heute supported by the Deutsche Bank Stiftung, he will premiere three new operas with Ensemble Modern in 24/25. As a strong believer that anyone can achieve the highest musical result through joy, passion, and creative rehearsal strategies, Ram has worked with the German National Youth Ballet and the Youth North-German Philharmonic, the Dresden Special Music Highschool (Spezialschule), and as music director of the Leipzig University Orchestra between 2019-2024. Always looking to deepen his understanding of current developments in art, Ram is one of the few candidates to have completed the Music.Multimedia.Managemt Project led by the Szczecin Philharmonic in collaboration with Fjord Cadenza Festival and TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art. Ram has participated in several international masterclasses and festivals, including the first-ever masterclass at the Bayreuther Festspiele for conductors. He has studied with Christian Thielemann, Klaus Mäkelä, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sakari Oramo, Neeme Järvi, Marek Janowski, Hartmut Haenchen, Robert Treviño, Steven Sloane, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Timothy Redmond, Nicolás Pasquet, Johannes Schlaefli, and Jorma Panula. In 2015 Ram graduated Cum Laude from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv with a B.A. in Orchestral Conducting and Musicology. He completed his Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden, in the class of Prof. Ekkehard Klemm and has completed the Advanced Professional Training for Conductors Program at the UdK Berlin, studying with Maestros Steven Sloane and Harry Curtis. Throughout his studies he has been supported by generous scholarships from the “Yotzrim” foundation for independent artists, AICF “Sharet”,and the DAAD Scholarship. A firm believer in education and social causes, Ram spent a year before beginning his formal studies volunteering in underprivileged communities in Israel, working with children both in and outside the education system. During his studies in Tel-Aviv, he continued volunteering at the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights.
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Mr. Christopher Ramaekers

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Member Bio Christopher Ramaekers is currently Director of Orchestras at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Associate Conductor of the Chicago Composers Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Davis Theater Concert Series for Access Contemporary Music. During the 2018-2019 season he was Interim Assistant Conductor of the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Quad-City Youth Orchestras. He has been Music Director of the Orchestra of St. Vincent’s and the Hyde Park Youth Symphony, Principal Conductor of the Ravenswood Community Orchestra, and spent 9 summers as Director of Orchestras at Camp Encore/Coda in Sweden, Maine. As a guest conductor, he has appeared with the Kalamazoo Symphony, Skokie Valley Symphony, Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra, Lake Forest Civic Orchestra, Ensemble Dal Niente, the Chicago Opera Vanguard, and internationally with the Berlin Sinfonietta. Dr. Ramaekers has held fellowships with the Allentown (PA) Symphony Orchestra and the Peninsula Music Festival in Door County, WI. He was winner of the 2011 American Prize in Orchestral Conducting and holds degrees from Western Michigan University and Northwestern University.
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Andrea Ramirez

University of Texas at Arlington
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Gloria Ramos Triano

Swisscom
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Member Bio Studies in Spain and Switzerland, obtaining 3 Major Degrees: Piano, Composing and Conducting. Two weeks after her graduation as Kapellmeisterin, in Zürich 1995, Ramos Triano won the Opera Prize in the Conducting Competition of Besançon. Further Prizes in Brasov, Granada and Cadaqués, opened her the way to work with orchestras at international level, such as London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Leipzig Rundfunkorchester, or Sankt Petersburg Symphoniker. Artistic Director and Conductor of several orchestras, like the Orquesta de Cordoba, 2001-2004, as the first Spanish woman to obtain this position, with much successful audience increase and press critics. Her preferences about repertoire include works from the classical period until nowadays, concert as well as opera. Ramos Triano has a special predilection for contemporary and XX century music, having premiered countless new works, as well as those from composers like Pierre Boulez, H.W. Henze, Sánchez-Verdú, Xenakis, Luis de Pablo, or García-Abril. She herself, dedicates also much time to composition, having conducted her own works with orchestras and Ensembles, in Spain and abroad. Her composition «amazon» will be premiered in april 2022 by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and will be programmed by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 2023 Recently creating a chamber orchestra in Switzerland: Worldbows Sinfonietta. In the history of Spain ​ the first woman ​ to have held the position of Music Director and Chief Conductor, obtaining astonishing increasement of season ticket holders. Prize winner in several national and international conducting competitions. Experience as guest conductor internationally. Her repertoire includes works of great complexity, like Boulez, Stravinsky, Henze, and her predilection for contemporary music, has led her to conduct countless premieres, some of them registered by Spanish labels Her clear and precise technique, and her ability to conduct by heart even difficult scores and premieres, is combined with a wise musicality, which inspires the musicians and reaches the listener, being her concerts always an enthusiastic experience, often ending with standing ovations. Founder of the Weltsaiten Sinfonietta in Switzerland. Intense composing activity since several years. She makes use of traditional as well as avantgarde techniques, with authentic virtuosity in the orchestration, captures the attention of the listener, is colorful, imaginative, and sheer emotional. Gloria Isabel Ramos Triano's compositions have been played from orchestras like ​ San Francisco Symphony, ​ Pittsburgh Symphony ​ Munich Philharmonic, ​ RTVE Spanish Symphony Orchestra, etc..., ​ in occasions under the baton of Ramos Triano herself.
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Ariel Rbibo

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Marco Real-d'Arbelles

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Member Bio Marco was appointed Associate Artistic Director of the Bach Society of Minnesota in 2018 where he works as conductor, violinist, and speaker bringing diverse communities together through music. He leads BSM’s successful “Bach with Friends” workshops and can be seen performing violin in solo, recital, chamber, and orchestral performances. Equally comfortable in modern and baroque performance, Marco recently led a production of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea in collaboration with BSM, Bold North Baroque Opera, and University of Minnesota Opera Theatre, and a newly commissioned opera titled In Media Res with An Opera Theatre(AOT). Both are due to be released in the Spring of 2021. Marco was also Music Director for Opera on the Lake’s premiere production of Die Fledermaus and Bold North Baroque Opera’s La Dafne. Previous conducting postings and appearances include Winter Opera St. Louis, Chicago Summer Opera, Miami Classical Music Festival, CCM’s Opera Bootcamp, and Oberlin in Italy Opera Festival. Born in Nicaragua, Marco was raised in Miami, Florida where he formally began studying violin at the age of 11. He was admitted to the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees under the tutelage of Sergiu Schwartz and Carol Cole. While there, he also began studying conducting with Maestros Albert George Schram and Jon Robertson. He later trained with conducting masters Mark Gibson, Riccardo Frizza, Jorma Panula, and Ennio Nicotra. After graduate studies, he went on to become Assistant Conductor of The Miami Symphony Orchestra where he led outreach, educational, and family concerts. He spent the summer of 2011 in Venezuela working in the world famous EL SISTEMA as assistant conductor. In 2014, the Chamber Philharmonic of Catalonia (Spain) awarded Marco the Conducting Prize. In 2016, he was given Special Recognition by the City of Doral (Florida) for his contributions to the arts and his work with youth. Marco currently lives in Minneapolis with Yunyue (wife and recital partner) and their baby boy.
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Mark Reimer

Christopher Newport University
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Member Bio Dr. Mark U. Reimer is Distinguished Professor of Music, the George and Mary Torggler Professor of Music, and Director of Music at Christopher Newport University. The 2011 recipient of the CNU Alumni Society Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, Dr. Reimer conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and wind literature. He serves frequently as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in the United States and abroad and has led the Wind Ensemble in international tours that have included performances in Cyprus, England, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Scotland, and Slovenia. Dr. Reimer earned the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Drake University where he was voted “Most Outstanding Senior” by the music faculty, the Master of Music degree in wind conducting and literature from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he served as the Assistant Conductor of the CCM Brass Choir, and the Doctor of Music degree in wind conducting and literature from Indiana University, the first student to earn this degree. His conducting teachers include Ray Cramer, Terrence Milligan, and Don Marcouiller, and his brass teachers include Harvey Phillips, Sam Green, and Robert Weast. A recipient of an Indiana University Fellowship to Germany, Dr. Reimer co-founded the Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education and has published articles in the leading international wind band magazines and journals, including the Journal of Band Research, Journal of the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators Journal, Research and Issues in Music Education, Visions of Research in Music Education, The Journal of Global Awareness, Instrumentalist, Journal of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Alta Musica of the International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Wind Music, American Music Teacher of the Music Teachers National Association, TUBA Journal, Conference Proceedings of the Global Awareness Society International, and the Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education. He has presented papers in Costa Rica, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Morocco, Puerto Rico, Turkey, New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Norfolk, Washington, D.C., and Williamsburg. Dr. Reimer is a member of the International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Wind Music, the College Band Directors National Association, the National Association for Music Education, the College Music Society, and the Conductors Guild. He is president of the national music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda, past president of the College Division of the Virginia Music Educators Association, past Province Governor of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and an accreditation visitation team chair for the National Association of Schools of Music.
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Stan Renard

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Member Bio Dr. Stan Renard is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Oklahoma. He is the Director of the Arts Incubation Research Lab (AIR Lab), a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab. The lab’s research team studies the intersection of the arts, entrepreneurship, and innovation at its incubation stage with a research agenda that intends to understand the economic potential of artists as non-conventional entrepreneurs and the impact of the digital divide upon arts-based entrepreneurs. In addition, he is a touring and recording artist, and the founder and arranger of the Grammy-Nominated Bohemian Quartet and Viatorum Music. Dr. Renard holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA) from the University of Connecticut as well as a Doctorate in International Business (DBA) from Southern New Hampshire University. Previously held collegiate appointments include Colby College, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Providence College, Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern New Hampshire University, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Renard is a member of the Yamaha Master Educator Collective, Music Business & Entrepreneurship Group.
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