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Mr. John Gordon Ross

Western Piedmont Symphony
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Member Bio John Gordon Ross is completing his 25th season as Music Director and Conductor of the Western Piedmont Symphony in Hickory, NC. His first orchestral conducting opportunities came as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra (1972-74) the Canton Symphony Orchestra and Youth Symphony (1974-75) and the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra (1973-1979). In recent years he has returned to Ohio to lead the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lima Symphony, and the Blue Ash Symphony. He served as Music Director and Conductor of the Kingsport (TN) Symphony Orchestra from 1981-1991. He is a frequent clinic and festival conductor in North Carolina, and has led both student orchestras at the Eastern Music Festival. John Gordon Ross recently was a co-recipient of the Hickory Human Relations Council Award with Sally Ross for their service to young people. He stepped in to conduct the opening concert of the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra in Ohio in late July 2015. Born in Selma, Indiana in 1951, John Gordon Ross received a B.M. from Ball State University and a M.M. from Northwestern University and also attended the Cleveland Institute of Music. His conducting teachers were Robert Hargreaves, Thomas Briccetti, and Walter Hendl. He also benefited from the knowledge and experience of long-term mentor Robert Marcellus, former Principal Clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra. He has also been a participating conductor in the master classes of Pierre Boulez and Victor Yampolsky. He is still active as a trombonist and is the 2nd Trombonist of the Lakeside (OH) Summer Symphony and also regularly performs in North Carolina. He has taught instrumental conducting at Middle Tennessee State University and Lenoir-Rhyne University as a guest faculty member and taught other courses at King College in Bristol, TN. Currently he is an adjunct faculty member at Lenoir-Rhyne University where he is conducting choral ensembles during the spring semester. He held the title of Artist-in-Residence at Cleveland State University from 1977-79. He is also a devotee of music of our time having led numerous world premieres with his orchestras. He is also recognized as an advocate of the music of African-American composers. He received one of the initial Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Travel to the Collections Grants from the Center for Black Music Research and presented a paper on orchestral repertoire at their 2008 National Convention in Chicago.
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Dr. Nicholas Ross

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Col. Thomas Rotondi Jr.

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Member Bio Colonel Thomas Rotondi, Jr. retired from the United States Army in 2011 following a distinguished 34-year military career culminating as the eighth Leader and Commander of The United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in Washington, DC. Originally from Chicago Heights, Illinois, Colonel Rotondi holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California. While at Millikin University, Colonel Rotondi was active in Phi Mu Alpha and was selected for Pi Kappa Lambda Honorary Music Fraternity. Colonel Rotondi joined the United States Army as a trumpet player in 1977. He received his commission in 1982 through Officer Candidate School, where he was an honor graduate. Prior to his assignment in Washington, DC, Colonel Rotondi held multiple assignments including staff conductor and administrative intern, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth, Texas (as part of the Army’s “Training with Industry” program); Commander/Conductor, United States Continental Army Band, Fort Monroe, Virginia; Commander/Conductor, United States Army, Europe, Band and Chorus, Heidelberg, Germany; and Commander/Conductor of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, New York. Colonel Rotondi performed at numerous national events including the State Funeral for President Gerald R. Ford and the first inauguration for President Barack Obama. Colonel Rotondi has also conducted throughout Europe as well as Japan and China. He holds the distinction of being the first United States military band officer to conduct the Peoples Liberation Army Band in Beijing, China. Colonel Rotondi studied conducting with Eiji Oue, Conductor Laureate of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, and with John Giordano, Conductor Emeritus of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He twice attended the Conductor’s Seminar at the Tanglewood Music Center (summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) where the faculty included Seiji Ozawa, Maurice Abravanel, and Gustav Meier. Colonel Rotondi was elected to membership into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association in 2005, was awarded the Alumni Merit Award from Millikin University in 2007 and was inducted into the Bloom Township High School Hall of Fame in 2010. Besides serving on the Board of Directors for the Association of Concert Bands, Colonel Rotondi also serves as the Advisor to the Director for the Music At The Summit Adult Band Institute in Breckenridge, Colorado and continues to serve on the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Colonel George S. Howard Award Committee. Colonel Rotondi retired to Kingsport, Tennessee, where he remains active as a freelance conductor, musical consultant, and clinician.
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Dr. Dominique Royem

Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio The Houston Chronicle has said that Dominique Royem “conducts with style and feeling” and that “her energy and passion are boundless.” She has been the Music Director of the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra since 2014. During her tenure, she has radically diversified the organization's programming, increased the organization's reach by starting a chorus, instituted family and children’s programming, and commissioned new works for the ensemble. In 2015, the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra was recognized as a Finalist in the American Prize based in New York City. Through the programming done for FBSO, Dominique was Semifinalist for The American Prize—Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award in Orchestral Programming in the 2017-2018 season. She has worked with ensembles such as the Ukrainian State Orchestra, Plevin Philharmonic, Galveston Symphony, Moores Opera Center, Sugarland Opera, HBU Opera Theatre, HITS, and the Houston Civic Orchestra. She was the Resident Conductor for Bayou City Concert Musicals, Music Director for Houston Grand Opera’s Opera to Go! during the 12-13 and 13-14 seasons, and the Conducting Fellow for the Allentown Symphony Orchestra’s 2012-2013 season. She has a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Houston Moores School of Music. Her dissertation, entitled “Generic Integration and Its Expressive Potential in the Music of Kurt Weill and Richard Rodgers,” uses semiotic and genre theory to illuminate the similarities between opera and musical theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Dominique currently lectures at the Women’s Institute of Houston. Dominique is the lead artist facilitator for Artist INC, Houston, where she helps to train artists in entrepreneur skills such as web design, social media, grant writing, and strategic planning. Dominique’s YouTube channel focuses on bringing her joy about classical music to listeners everywhere. Check out her videos about Music History, Music Theory, and Pop Music. Her upcoming engagements can be found on www.dominiqueroyem.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube @dominiqueroyem.
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Dr. Peter Rubardt

Pensacola Symphony, Mississippi Gulf Coast Symphony
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Member Bio Peter Rubardt has earned wide acclaim for powerful and insightful performances that inspire passionate responses to symphonic music. In addition to his long-standing position as Music Director of the Pensacola Symphony, in recent seasons he has added the Music Directorships of the Meridian and Gulf Coast Symphonies. Throughout his career he has worked successfully to broaden and deepen the relationships between communities and their orchestras, leading to growing audiences and a broad base of support. A gifted speaker about music as well as a performer, he actively engages audiences and community groups in the appreciation of symphonic music. Also busy as a guest conductor, Rubardt recently debuted with the Alabama Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, and the Augusta Symphony. Now in his 22nd season as Music Director of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, Rubardt continues to grow the organization through a wide range of classical, pops, and educational programs. He has played a central role in designing the orchestra’s innovative “Beyond the Stage” program, partnering with a range of local organizations to bring music to hospitals, schools, and neighborhoods. Previously he was at the forefront of the effort that successfully renovated the historic Pensacola Saenger Theatre, giving the orchestra increased visibility and vitality. He also led a significant capital campaign for the orchestra, and played a key role in the creation of an hour-long documentary in collaboration with WSRE public television. Since assuming the Music Directorship in Meridian, that community has seen a sharp increase in concert attendance, an acoustical retrofit of the hall, a new symphonic pops event, and the introduction of a newly formed symphony chorus. Prior to his appointment in Pensacola, Rubardt served four seasons as Associate Conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and three seasons as Resident Conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, conducting numerous classical and pops performances, regional tours, and educational programs with both orchestras. He has conducted the Utah Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Louisiana, Rochester, and Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestras, The Louisville Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, The Richmond Symphony, Japan's Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Century Orchestra Osaka, Yamagata Symphony, Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra (where he performed for the Imperial Highness Princess Hitachi of Japan), Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Nova Filarmonia Portuguese, with which he toured Portugal several times, as well as the orchestras of Acadiana, Anchorage, Annapolis, Augusta, Bangor, El Paso, Lubbock, Peoria, Portland, Quad Cities, Rogue Valley, South Dakota, Southwest Florida, Spokane, and Youngstown, among others. From 1991-96, he served as Music Director of the Rutgers Symphony. A native of Berkeley, California, Rubardt holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from The Juilliard School.
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Prof. Bernd Ruf

University of Music Lübeck; German Pops Orchestra
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Member Bio BERND RUF is one of today's most accomplished and creative musical names in the classical crossover field. He is considered one of the pioneers in merging symphonic repertoire with popular genres. For more than three decades he has conducted a broad spectrum of musical ensembles, including symphonic, chamber and string orchestras, big bands and musical orchestras, choirs and symphonic wind orchestras. In all his projects he searches for connection, understanding and interaction from and with musicians from very different cultural spheres. This work has led him to develop his Crossover Symphonies: special orchestral programs with African, Asian and Latin American musicians, incorporating jazz and rock musicians.He has performed a Latin Night with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna and a Tango Night with the Stuttgart Philharmonic. He has conducted various symphonic concerts at jazz festivals in New York and Stuttgart for the jazz stars Joe Lovano, Randy Brecker and Charlie Mariano. Bernd Ruf and his orchestra accompanied Irish rock bard Chris de Burgh on his rock-symphonic tour through Germany and Switzerland. He has worked with names such as Jon Lord (Deep Purple), Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and Paul McCartney. A large proportion of the game soundtracks produced in Germany are conducted by him.While working as assistant to Dennis Russell Davies, Bernd Ruf led rehearsals and concerts given by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and at the Salzburg Festival. As a musical conductor, he has conducted performances of Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, Dance of the Vampires and The Lion King. Bern Ruf is a regular guest conductor at the Staatskapelle Halle. For the Handel Festival in Halle, Bernd Ruf developed and conducted the major annual open-air event 'Bridges to Classics' for the past 13 years, with rock legends such as this year's performance from Gary Brooker or, in previous years, Steve Hackett ( Genesis), Bobby Kimball (Toto) and Jimi Jamison (The Survivors).For the past 9 years he has worked as music director of the Filmmusiktagen Sachsen-Anhalt, which takes place each autumn, with a master class for film music composers and a gala concert. His repertoire includes symphonic works from baroque to contemporary with an emphasis on Handel, 20th and 21st century music, American symphony works, and film and game music.
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Robert Ryker

Tokyo Sinfonia
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Member Bio Robert Rÿker has founded orchestras on three continents – the National Philharmonic of India, the North Bay Symphony in Canada, and the Tokyo Sinfonia. He has written over 500 musical arrangements, compositions and orchestrations. He has lectured on Conducting for the Midwest Orchestra Conference in Chicago and served for a decade as senior music critic of the Japan Times, with an international reputation as a discerning writer on music. His recordings of works by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Britten, Dvorak, Gershwin, Grieg, Lalo, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Reed, Schubert and Shostakovich have earned high praise for their balanced sonorities, sensitive pacing and profound expression. Writing on Maestro’s performance, Montreal critic Robert Markow commented: “Bravo! a true interpretation, an approach that features firm control of rhythm, accuracy of attacks and releases, good flow and momentum, and an almost classical approach. Refreshing. Excellent orchestra, too.”
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Dr. Trond Saeverud

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Member Bio Violinist and conductor Trond Saeverud has been a soloist with major orchestras in Europe and in the USA. He has produced CDs as soloist with orchestras in Norway and Denmark and regularly premieres new works for the violin. His solo CD Ghosts received the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy award (1997), and his recital CD Hika was editor’s choice, Strad Magazine (May 2002). Trond has conducted professional and community orchestras in Denmark, Norway, and the USA, most recently in Maine, where he is founder and artistic director of the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony with players from New Brunswick, Canada, and Maine, USA. During Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s recent music director search, Trond conducted subscription and Pops concerts, including a very successful production of West Side Story. Trond is also concertmaster of the Bangor Symphony, leader of the NorEaster String Quartet, and conductor and string instructor for the University of Maine at Farmington and Augusta. Plans for the 2012–2013 season include concerts, lectures, and master classes in Norway and Japan.
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Matthew Salvaggio

Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio Conductor Matthew Salvaggio is a dynamic artist dedicated to exploring and promoting new music, reimagining diverse orchestral performance experiences, and creating equitable access to music education. He founded the Cleveland Repertory Orchestra in 2021 to explore the breadth of the orchestral repertoire, with an emphasis on new music and music by historically excluded voices. Additionally, the 2023/24 season marks his first season as Music Director and Conductor of the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra, where he conducts the top-tier Youth Orchestra and manages a team of eight conductors responsible for leading the other BYSO ensembles. Upon the conclusion of the 2022/23 season, Matt completed several successful Music Directorships, including six seasons with the Euclid Symphony Orchestra, six seasons with the University Heights Symphonic Band, two seasons with the Erie Junior Philharmonic, and two seasons as Professor of Orchestra at Mercyhurst University. He has previously served on the conducting faculty at Hiram College and Lakeland Community College, and served as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and the Lakeland Civic Orchestra. Matt was a 2021 Second Prize winner of the American Prize in wind conducting and a 2015 semi-finalist in the National Band Association’s Young Conductor Mentor Project. In 2019, he was a finalist for conducting positions with both the United States Army and Air Force Bands – an honor reserved for a select few each year. Committed to increasing access to music education, in 2022 Matt announced an initiative to expand the Erie Junior Philharmonic’s Prelude program for beginning students to include opportunities for beginning woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments. In 2019, he established the Tom Baker Young Artists Competition with the Euclid Symphony Orchestra. The annual competition, which has attracted students from throughout the Midwest, awards the winner a concerto performance opportunity with the ESO and a cash prize. An advocate for new music, Matt has commissioned works from composers including Mark Camphouse, Griffin Candey, Steve Danyew, Anthony O’Toole, Michael Kallstrom, Kevin Walczyk, and Tony Manfredonia. Artistic collaborations include Alan Baer (New York Philharmonic), John Rautenberg (Cleveland Orchestra), John DiCesare (Seattle Symphony), Joshua Lauretig (Buffalo Philharmonic), Ken Johnston (Erie Philharmonic), Kyra Kester (Akron Symphony), Cameron Leach, J.c. Sherman, and Liesl Hook. With his ensembles, he has trained and mentored young conductors and music teachers, offering conducting opportunities, coaching, and mentorship to those early in their careers. He is active as a guest conductor and clinician and has been invited to conduct local public-school bands, community bands, summer music camps, and honors ensembles.
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Darius Sanders

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Member Bio MM in Vocal performance with an emphasis in Orchestral Conducting - Peabody Institute
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