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Dr. Timothy Semanik

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Member Bio Timothy Semanik is the music director for the Bradley Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Semanik has a diverse conducting background, having worked equally in the orchestral, operatic, and choral fields. In addition to his position with the Bradley Symphony Orchestra, he currently serves as music director for the Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra and the Northwest Symphony Orchestra. He was previously music director for the Central Illinois Youth Symphony, the Carleton College Orchestra, the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Northern Illinois University Philharmonic. He recently served as assistant conductor for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and has been engaged as guest conductor for the Chicago Youth Symphony, the Windsor Symphony, the Elmhurst Symphony, the Pacific Chorale, the Pacific Symphony Institute and Youth Orchestra, and the orchestras at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. Mr. Semanik’s operatic credits include productions with Winter Opera St. Louis, Festival Opera, Light Opera Works, Great Lakes Lyric Opera, Ann Arbor Opera, Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, Comic Opera Guild, Ann Arbor Civic Theater, Opera in the Ozarks, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, California State University, Fullerton, and Bradley University. In addition, he is the music director for the Savoyaires of Evanston, IL and principal guest conductor for MIOpera. Dr. Semanik holds a doctoral degree in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan.
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Eunseok Seo

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James Setapen

Music Institute of Chicago
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Member Bio James Setapen, Director of the Academy and Conductor-in-Residence at the Music Institute of Chicago, has a broad background and interests, which include positions as music director, associate conductor, guest conductor, university professor, opera coach and conductor, mentor to young musicians, conducting teacher, and public speaker. From 1988 to 2007 he was Music Director and Conductor of the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra. His very successful tenure included raising and sustaining the quality of performance, developing community interest and knowledge in the orchestra, and establishing innovative and accessible programs. During his tenure the Symphony premiered several works, expanded its outreach into the community, initiated an outdoor Labor Day concert with fireworks, and was the subject of two television documentaries which were each broadcast in over one hundred markets throughout the country. Setapen has guest conducted many orchestras and opera companies throughout the country, including those of Denver, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Orlando, and Honolulu. He has also conducted in several cities in Italy, Germany and Austria. Recent guest engagements have included the Park Ridge Fine Arts Symphony, the Northbrook and Racine orchestras, and the University of Chicago orchestra. Setapen was Music Director of Summer Music Monterey, a program for middle school and high school music students, for seven summers. He has also worked with the youth orchestras of Oakland, Denver, and Amarillo. He was recently guest conductor for the Vermont All-State Orchestra, the Milwaukee High School Honors Orchestra, and the Northeast Kansas Honors Orchestra. He and his daughter Ilana were guest conductor and violin soloist with the Musical Offering of Venice Chamber Orchestra and were also featured as soloist and conductor with the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado. James SetapenFormer Associate Conductor of the Denver Symphony and the Omaha Symphony, Setapen won first prize in the Oakland Symphony’s American Conductor’s Competition, and as the San Francisco Examiner reported, was ...the consensus choice of the six judges, the orchestra and the audience...[he displayed] undeniable power and vitality - conductorial authority - that won him the prize. James Setapen received his Bachelor of Music with Distinction and a Performer’s Certificate in Clarinet from the Eastman School of Music, and a Master of Music in Opera Direction from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has also studied conducting with Boris Goldovsky and Max Rudolf, with Carl Melles at the Salzburg Mozarteum, with Franco Ferrara in Siena, Italy, and in Krakow, Poland with Christoph Eschenbach. Setapen has been on the faculty of the Conductor’s Institute at Bard College in New York.
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Mr. Andrew Sewell

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Member Bio Maestro Andrew Sewell enters his twenty fourth season as music director of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and seventh season with the San Luis Obispo Symphony. His previous appointments include tenures with the Wichita, Toledo and Mansfield, Ohio Symphonies. Known for his innovative programming and knack for discovering new talent, Sewell is a highly skilled orchestra builder with a wide knowledge and range of repertoire. In demand as a guest conductor, he has led the Toronto, Detroit, Milwaukee, Columbus, Syracuse, Illinois, Monterey, Gulf Coast and Eugene Symphony Orchestras, as well as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony, National Symphony of Mexico, Kyushu Symphony (Japan), City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, OK Mozart Festival, WI Peninsula Music Festival and Masterworks Festivals in the US and London. A native of New Zealand, Maestro Sewell received his music training on the violin, piano and cornet, and began conducting at age 16. Six years later, he made his professional opera debut with the Mercury Opera and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Winning the Australian Guarantee Corporation’s Young Achiever’s Award allowed him to further his studies abroad. Sewell holds a Master of Music degree with Honors in Conducting from the University of Michigan. While not conducting, Andrew enjoys cycling, hiking and visiting family in New Zealand. He and his wife, Mary have three grown children, and reside in Madison, Wisconsin. Over the years he has been credited with numerous awards for services to music including the 2017 Service to Music Award from the Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras, the 2013 Rabin Arts Youth Award for Individual Achievement by the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra, the 2005 Best Individual Artist Award by Wichita Arts Council, and 2005 Musician of the Year by the Wisconsin State Journal, for services to music and the greater arts community. An avid cyclist, you will often see him at a local coffee shop, grocery store or cycling along the backroads of Wisconsin or San Luis Obispo.
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Ann Shafer Ann Shafer University of Oregon

University of Oregon
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Pierce Shaltis

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Member Bio Master’s student in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Delaware. Passionate about collaboration, education, and performance across orchestral, opera, and musical theatre repertoire.
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Mr. Peter Shannon

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Member Bio he Irish conductor Peter Shannon aspires to prove to others that orchestral music can transform communities. Innovative and tireless in his outreach, Shannon embodies the new and growing role of music director. He works to reshape and re-imagine what orchestras are and how they serve their communities both musically and personally. ​ Beginning his musical career as a professional singer and organist, Peter’s performances focus on the singing aspect of the orchestra. Phrasing and articulation coupled with expressive powerful playing are signatures of his concerts. His performances are an eclectic mix of his Irish fun-loving personality, his strict German training, and his decade plus experiences of living in the USA. ​ 2020/2021 is Shannon’s seventh year as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Jackson Symphony in Jackson, Tennessee. He was the first Artistic Director and Conductor of the Savannah Philharmonic, in Savannah Georgia, from 2008 to 2018, before deciding to relocate with his family to his native Ireland. He commutes regularly to the USA and mainland Europe to conduct. During his tenure with both orchestras, Shannon broadened the musical landscape stimulating unprecedented artistic and financial growth of the organizations. As a builder and orchestral architect, Shannon was tasked in 2007 with the forming of the Savannah Philharmonic orchestra and Chorus after the previous symphony went bankrupt. Under his tenure as Artistic Director, with much effort from the board and several executive directors, the orchestra has grown to a budget of almost two million dollars. In the first three years since his arrival with the Jackson symphony, with board support, the musicians’ earning have raised by 70%. ​ The son of a physician, Shannon hails from a long-line of medical professionals. Combining the performing arts with the healing arts, he has developed performance programs for cancer center patients including children receiving inpatient care and individuals in hospice care. In collaboration with physicians and healthcare professionals, Shannon has spearheaded projects using Music and Mindfulness, which has trained musicians to work as healers through a specially developed curriculum focusing on communicating with compassion. He has adapted Mozart’s The Magic Flute, specifically for sick children. A 2015 article in Symphony Magazine drew international attention to this important initiative performed by the Savannah Philharmonic. ​ Recognizing that violent crime continues to challenge many cities, Shannon, working together with the board leadership of the Savannah Philharmonic created and developed ‘Philharmonic in the Streetz’, a radically diverse collaboration between the orchestra musicians and the most at-risk youth in the community. This program drew significant attention from the City of Savannah and became a catalyst for broadening the reach of the orchestra.
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Aliyah Shanti Aliyah Shanti Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis Institute of Music
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Kristina L Shanton Kristina Shanton Ithaca College

Ithaca College
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Mark Shapiro

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Member Bio Mark Shapiro is an “insightful conductor (who) draws subtle and dynamic playing” (The New York Times) from his musicians. He offers “spirit, flexibility and sensitivity in his conducting” (The Rutland Herald) of orchestras, choruses and opera, and is equally at home as a speaker, presenter and teacher. He has been in the vanguard of conductors engaging in relevant and vital ways with musicians, audiences and communities. A six-time winner of an ASCAP Programming Award while at the helm of three different ensembles over a two-decade span, Shapiro is Music Director of The Prince Edward Island Symphony and The Cecilia Chorus of New York, which performs an annual series in Carnegie Hall. He is Artistic Director of Cantori New York, which holds the unusual distinction of having appeared at all five major halls at Lincoln Center. The New York Times has singled out Shapiro’s “spirit of adventure,” “virtuosity and assurance,” and the “uncommon polish” of his music-making, and the New Jersey Star-Ledger has characterized his artistic leadership as “erudite and far-reaching.” His repertoire interests are wide-ranging, embracing new music and standard repertoire from all over the globe, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as well as crossover (with popular Canadian artists Lennie Gallant, Catherine MacLellan, David Myles and The Paper Lions). He devises original programs interweaving music and spoken word; and he pioneered a highly successful model juxtaposing classical masterworks and popular artists. A dedicated advocate of women composers, Shapiro has particularly championed the work of Dame Ethel Smyth, conducting the long overdue New York premieres of her Mass in D and The Prison, both in Carnegie Hall. A skilled linguist as well as a fluent musician, Shapiro has conducted multiple opera productions with Juilliard Vocal Arts, and has conducted opera with American Opera Projects, the Center for Contemporary Opera, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Hofstra Opera Theater, Mannes Opera, Opera Theater Rutgers, Underworld Opera, and the Opera Company of Middlebury. He is a frequent guest conductor for the Nova Sinfonia in Halifax. Shapiro is proud to have conducted the Carnegie Hall debuts of international opera stars Julia Bullock, Ryan Speedo Green, Jennifer Rowley, William Guanbo Su, and to have collaborated with outstanding musical talents including Harolyn Blackwell, Sasha Cooke, Miranda Cuckson, Marni Nixon, the Prism Saxophone Quartet and Nadia Sirota, among many others. He has been privileged to work with Tony Award winners Maryann Plunkett and Stephen Spinella, Obie Award winner Kathleen Chalfant, American Ballet Theatre and others. Shapiro has had performances and interviews on radio stations WNYC and WQXR, as well as on Sirius radio, and was heard on PBS leading the orchestral soundtrack for Ric Burns’s special on New York City. He has recorded for the Albany, Arsis, Newport Classics and PGM labels. His recording of Frank Martin’s oratorio Le
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