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Cynthia Shenette Cynthia Shenette Clark University

Clark University
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Joshua Shepherd

The People's Orchestra of Nashville Orchestra
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Member Bio Joshua Shepherd studied violin and voice at Dillard School of the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, before graduating in 1998. He then went on to attain his Bachelor’s degree in Music Education with an emphasis on viola from Florida Atlantic University in 2002. In 2004, Joshua received his Master’s degree in Instrumental Conducting and Viola Performance from the University of South Florida, Tampa. From 2004 to the present, Joshua has played in various Florida ensembles such as the Venice Symphony, Port Charlotte Symphony, Florida Lakes Symphony Orchestra, Central Florida Symphony, Palm Beach Pops, Symphony of the Americas, Space Coast Pops, Miami Symphony and the Palm Beach Opera. He also has performed with such distinguished artists as Bernadette Peters, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Frank Sinatra Jr., Arturo Sandoval, Jon Secada and Nestor Torres. In May 2011, Mr. Shepherd graduated from the University of Miami with a Doctorate in Viola Performance.
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Patrick Shepherd

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Member Bio Patrick Shepherd has called New Zealand home since moving here from England in 1991. He is an accomplished composer, conductor, performer and teacher, and he is well-known for his work in the community and with young people. He is passionate about new music, music education, technology and creativity. His works have been performed in the UK, USA, Germany, Russia, South Korea, China and Australia as well as regular performances and broadcasts in New Zealand. At university he studied composition under Edward Gregson, Stanley Glasser, Robin Walker and Geoffrey Poole. A graduate of Manchester, London and Canterbury universities, Patrick also holds licentiate (LTCL) and fellowship (FTCL) diplomas in composition from Trinity College, London. Patrick’s works have been performed by many ensembles worldwide, including the Berlin Chamber Orchestra (Germany), Kuzbass Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Duo Stump Linshalm (Germany), Choir of Christ’s College, Oxford (UK) and Aoraki Duo (Australia), as well as in New Zealand by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand String Quartet, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Canterbury Philharmonia, Da Capo Chamber Orchestra, Jubilate Singers, 175 East, Silencio Ensemble and Camerata Strings. Patrick has also written solo works for Andrew Uren, Carol Hohauser, Matthew Marshall, Brigitte Martin, Mark Walton, Anatoly Zelinsky, Peter Dykes, Bede Hanley and Richard Belcher. Patrick has written two musicals, many works for children (including a children’s ballet) and the soundtrack to two New Zealand short films (Lemi’s Comic Strip Capers and Kitty). Patrick wrote the soundtrack for Gavin Bishop’s “magic book” Giant Jimmy Jones, the world’s first interactive 3D virtual picture book created by the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITLab) at the University of Canterbury. Patrick’s tone poem Cryosphere was a finalist in the Lilburn Prize in 2006 and in 2007 Patrick was awarded the CANZ Trust Fund Award by the Composers Association of New Zealand for “outstanding potential and achievement in New Zealand Composition”. His works have received continual critical acclaim, with such comments as, “He brings a perspective to music quite different to other local writers… He is a master at delicate and transparent textures,” (Ian Dando, Christchurch Star), “[the] Requiem… is a moving work, uncompromising in idiom… this made for a rich framework. Overall it was a remarkably structured work,” (David Sell, The Press) and “[the Piano Sonatine was] immediately arresting. [It] contained moments of considerable charm,” (Timothy Jones, The Press). Being a multi-instrumentalist (he holds distinctions at grade 8 level on clarinet, violin and oboe and also plays sax, flute, recorder, percussion, guitar and piano) Patrick studied clarinet under George MacDonald (Northern Sinfonia) and Neville Duckworth, Cyril “Paddy” O’Neill, with whom he also studied oboe, and violin under Margaret Eglington and Florence Wilson. This in-depth knowledge of many of the instruments of the orchestra naturally led him to conducting. Patrick has conducted many orchestras and choirs, including the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Christchurch Youth Orchestra, Garden City Symphony Orchestra and NASDA chorus and he is currently conductor of the Camerata Strings and the Christchurch Schools’ Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Patrick is a staunch advocate of New Zealand music and during the 1990s organised several concerts of new music, culminating in the release of the Contemporary Canterbury CD, featuring works by eight New Zealand composers. He has also represented the South Island on the national committee of the Composers’ Association of New Zealand (CANZ) as well as the national Composer Advisory Panel. He has delivered promotional talks and lectures on New Zealand music both overseas and nationally and is a music critic for The Press. Patrick is an Honorary Antarctic Arts Fellow, having travelled to Antarctica early in 2004, and much of his current creative work is related to that trip, including painting and poetry as well as music. Somewhat paradoxically, his experience in Antarctica led him to research the medical condition synaesthesia (altered sensory perception), conducting research projects at local and national levels within New Zealand and presenting papers at conferences across Australasia and Europe. Recent works include Moment Magnitude (2015) for String Quartet, Lithosphere – second movement (2015) and an opera titled Poles Apart (2016). Patrick is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury and lives on an olive grove in North Canterbury with his wife, Jeanette.
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Mr. Matthew Sheppard

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Member Bio With his passionate enthusiasm for both music and education, Matthew Sheppard conducts and teaches across the Chicago area and abroad. He serves as Music Director of the University Chamber Orchestra at the University of Chicago and the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago, as well as Artistic Director of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra (EYSO) and the Hyde Park Youth Symphony. In the past year, Sheppard has guest conducted orchestras in North and South America, including the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Paraguay, the Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra, the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra, and the Blue Lake International Youth Symphony. Sheppard serves as a committee member for the Illinois Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (IL CMP) project as they encourage “teaching with intention, and performing with understanding.” Active as a guest conductor and clinician throughout Illinois and Wisconsin, Sheppard is recognized for his inspiring teaching, musicianship, and leadership both on and off the podium. Previously, he served as Music Director of the Sangamon Valley Youth Symphony (now the Illinois Symphony Youth Symphony), Orchestra Director at Juniata College, and Assistant Conductor of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Orchestra. In 2010, he founded the State College Summer Orchestra, a community orchestra that presented twice-annual benefit concerts. In 2013, they presented four world premieres, including a commission by Efraín Amaya for the orchestra and cello soloist Kim Cook. Sheppard studied with Donald Schleicher as a doctoral candidate in orchestral conducting at the University of Illinois, and before that earned his master’s degree in orchestral conducting under the tutelage of Gerardo Edelstein at Penn State University. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Liberal Arts, Music Education, and Violin Performance from Penn State where he studied with Max Zorin.
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Michael Sheppard

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Member Bio Already known as a pianist of dazzling virtuosity and penetrating musicianship, Michael Sheppard is also spreading his wings as a composer, arranger and transcriber. Trained by the legendary Leon Fleisher and the scholarly but passionate Ann Schein at the Peabody Conservatory, Michael was selected by the American Pianists Association as a Classical Fellow. This designation led to the recording of his Harmonia Mundi CD of 2007 and in 2014 another recording will be released by Azica, a Cleveland-based label distributed worldwide by Naxos Records. As an interpreter of great acclaim of operatic transcriptions and musical theater scores, Michael Sheppard today stands at a crossroads, spending large amounts of time writing as well as performing and teaching. He has worked closely with fellow composers John Corigliano, Christopher Theofanidis, Michael Hersch, Robert Sirota and with the late Nicholas Maw, demonstrating a deep love of new music. His catalogue of works, numbering in the dozens, is about to be published and marketed by a new entrepreneurial music publishing company beginning in the fall of 2012. Michael Sheppard is a native of Philadelphia and resides in Baltimore where he often enjoys performing chamber music with Baltimore Symphony Principal cellist Dariusz Skorazewski and Hong Kong Philharmonic Concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich in the Monument Trio. He is also a teacher at the Baltimore School for the Arts.
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Mr. Bedros Shetilian

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Member Bio Bedros Shetilian graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of Yuri Temirkanov. He has worked with many internationally known orchestras like the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Bedros was awarded a medal and a diploma from the Russian Cultural Foundation for his achievements in conducting. He has participated in several music festivals such as the Moscow Easter Festival and Borgholms International Music Festival in Sweden and has toured several countries like England, Sweden and Finland. In 2003 Bedros with his family moved to the United States. In 2008 he founded The Troy Orchestra in Troy, New York, and was the Music Director for over five years. During the past few years, Bedros participated in St. Petersburg Palaces International Music Festival, where he conducted Mozart’s Requiem and received high critical acclaims. Bedros' recent engagements include concerts with London Mozart Players at St. John's Smith Square and with the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia. Bedros Shetilian is also an ordained priest for the Armenian Apostolic Church and currently lives in Massachusetts, USA where he combines both his callings - being a musician and a clergyman.
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Ena Shin

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Janet Sievert

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Thor Sigurdson

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Member Bio Sigurdson received his bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School as one of the final students of the great Leonard Rose. Upon graduation, he was among the first cellists selected by Michael Tilson Thomas to perform in Miami's celebrated New World Symphony, an ensemble with which he performed and toured internationally for three seasons. He was subsequently hired as Associate Principal Cellist of the Florida Philharmonic, a post he held for 13 years, finishing his tenure as Principal Cellist. Over his 25-year orchestral career, he performed under dozens of legendary maestros, including Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, and Seiji Ozawa. As a soloist and chamber musician he was a finalist in both the National Society of Arts and Letters Cello Competition and the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. Throughout his life, Sigurdson has always been a passionate advocate for young musicians, and he currently maintains a full teaching roster of both cello and double bass students. His past pupils have gone on to successful careers in both music performance and music education. He's also an experienced orchestral conductor, and he dedicates himself to working closely with youth orchestras wherever his career leads him. Sought after as a superb studio musician, Sigurdson's cello solos have been featured on albums by Gloria Estefan, Extreme, Collective Soul, Zakk Wylde, Plácido Domingo, and many others. For over 20 years he's had the honor of being a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which presents the annual Grammy Awards. His own debut recording of favorite cello solos with harpist Nichole Luchs, entitled After a Dream, is now available. After recently relocating his family to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his wife is earning a PhD in Social Work, Sigurdson is excited to pursue his solo career in earnest, and in between concert tours he remains committed to training young musicians in the greater Detroit area.
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Walter Simmons

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