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Ivan Shulman

Orchestra Nova LA
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Member Bio Ivan Shulman is an award-winning conductor, teacher, clinician and virtuoso performer and is pleased to be the inaugural conductor and Music Director of Orchestra Nova LA. Originally from New York, he studied oboe with his father, the noted oboist Harry Shulman, who played in the NBC Symphony under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. In his youth, he attended the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico on numerous occasions, and spent summers in Marlboro and Aspen, where he studied composition with Darius Milhaud and Charles Jones, theory and orchestration with Gordon Hardy, and conducting with Walter Susskind and Wolfgang Vacano. After deciding to follow his scientific interests, he went to medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, did a peripatetic surgical residency in New York, Seattle and San Francisco, and spent two years in the US Public Health Service on the Navajo Reservation. Despite the intensity of a surgical training program, music was never far from his daily activities and when he moved to begin a practice in Los Angeles, he sought out many opportunities to play oboe in both community and professional groups. He has done studio work for several television programs, at least one of which has come out on DVD. He has played oboe with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and at the Hollywood Bowl, which included appearances under conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Christopher Hogwood, Leonard Slatkin and John Williams, among others. For several years, he served as tour physician and extra oboist with the Philharmonic, going to Mexico with Erich Leinsdorf, to Japan and Korea with Carlo Maria Giulini, and to Europe with Zubin Mehta. Several seasons ago, he again combined his medical and musical talents, accompanying the Debut Orchestra of the Young Musicians Foundation on a tour of China. He became Music Director of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra in 1990, and took master classes under the auspices of both the American League of Symphony Orchestras and the Conductor’s Guild. As Music Director he has conducted the orchestra in Los Angeles, as well as Santa Barbara and Santa Fe. In 1994, he led the combined forces of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony and the University of California at San Francisco Orchestra in a highly acclaimed performance of the Mahler Sixth Symphony in San Francisco. He has also appeared as guest conductor in California with the Santa Monica Symphony, the Beach Cities Symphony in Torrance, the West Coast Symphony in Santa Barbara, the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony, the Topanga Philharmonic, the West Hollywood Orchestra, the Dalhousie University Chorus in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra in Alaska, the CAIS Honors String Orchestra and the FACS and Friends Symphony in Boston and San Francisco. He was also the conductor of the South Coast Reading Orchestra in Santa Barbara for four seasons. With the Nevada State Opera, he has conducted performances of Don Giovanni and Carmen. In 2001, he made his European conducting debut with the Pleven Philharmonic, in Bulgaria. He was music director of the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra in New Mexico from 2011 to 2013. In 2020, under his leadership, the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra was selected as First Place winner in the community orchestra division of the American Prize (http://theamericanprize.org), chosen from many orchestras across the country. In 2006, he returned to academia to pursue his musical interests once again, and received a Master’s degree in Music from the California State University at Long Beach in 2008, where he conducted and wrote a thesis on the Second Symphony of Charles Ives. He also performed other works of Ives and others while conducting the New Music Group. For his efforts, he received the Outstanding Graduate Thesis award from the University. Dr. Shulman has been on the music faculty at CSULB where he taught music history. He has been Chair of the Music Advisory Board of the Young Musicians Foundation, and regularly serves as a judge for scholarship and musical competitions of the Westside Music Foundation, Azusa Pacific University and the Music Teachers Association of California. He has been a juror at the Hong Kong International Music Festival for a number of years, and recently presented a paper for the sesquicentennial celebration of the composer Charles Ives at the Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music. He currently is an Honorary Professor of the Humanities at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California-Los Angeles and at the new Charles R. Drew University School of Medicine and Science, where he delights in teaching the next generation of physicians.
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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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Ms. Tara Simoncic

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Member Bio Groundbreaking conductor, Tara Simoncic, was the first woman to conduct the prestigious American Ballet Theatre in the company’s 85-year history. She is known for her unique connection with musicians and audience members, bringing passion, warmth, and clarity to every performance. A recent review from La Jornada stated, “Tara Simoncic rose to greatness on the podium. She demonstrated why she is one of the most sought-after orchestral conductors of her generation.” Comfortable in all genres, she works with prominent ballet and opera companies and symphony orchestras worldwide. Ms. Simoncic is one of the top ballet conductors regularly appearing with the world’s most renowned companies. In 2016, she made her debut with the New York City Ballet conducting Balanchine’s Nutcracker. Since then, she stepped in at the last minute to conduct the world premiere of Standard Deviation at Lincoln Center in 2023. She also toured twice with the NYC Ballet to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Last season, she conducted performances of The Four Temperaments, Ballo della Regina, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Jewels. She has been the conductor of the Flexible Orchestra, a contemporary ensemble in New York City, since 2003 where she works closely with composers to champion new works specifically written for the group. She has recently guest conducted the Portland Symphony, the Bridge Musik Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Nova at The Manhattan School of Music, and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México. Some highlights of her career include conducting an innovative and interactive production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at SNG Maribor and Don Giovanni at the Castello di San Giusto with the Piccolo Festival del Friuli Venezia Giulia. In her role as Music Director of the Louisville Ballet, she worked on a joint project with the Kentucky Opera and the ballet to bring Gounod’s Faust to the stage in a provocative new production. Ms. Simoncic is currently in her sixth season as Music Director of the Louisville Ballet. This fall will mark her third season conducting one of New York City’s most beloved modern dance companies, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center. She has served as Music Director of Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah and has been a recurring guest conductor with the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Teatro Colón’s Ballet Estable, Cincinnati Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, and the Compañia Nacional de Danza in Madrid. This season, she is thrilled to make debuts with the Joffrey Ballet, Orquestra Jovem do Estado of São Paulo, and the Houston Ballet. Ms. Simoncic has a Bachelor’s degree in Trumpet Performance from the New England Conservatory, a Master’s of Music in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern University, and a Professional Studies Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from the Manhattan School of Music. In 2011, she received the Bruno Walter Scholarship Award to study with Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Her teachers include Victor Yampolsky, Zdenek Macal, George Hurst, and Iloh Yang.
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Mr. James Sinclair

Orchestra New England / Charles Ives Society
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Member Bio James Sinclair has served as the Music Director of Orchestra New England since its founding in 1974. His versatility in delivering superb performances in a variety of styles – from the Baroque to pops literature – drives the remarkable success of Orchestra New England. Maestro Sinclair is currently recording for the Naxos label the complete orchestral music of Charles Ives, and eight-CD project. The first four discs have been released. Naxos is the leading repertoire provider in the recording world; their catalogue comprises more than 5,000 releases. James Sinclair is among the world's pre-eminent scholars and champions of the music of Charles Ives. He is the Executive Editor for the Charles Ives Society, supervising the work of Ives scholars throughout the United States. Maestro Sinclair has served as music director for four PBS television documentaries, including the Peabody Award-winning film about Ives, A Good Dissonance Like a Man. Sinclair acted as the musical consultant to Michael Tilson Thomas for an award-winning documentary on Ives's "Holidays" Symphony. In 1999, Yale University Press published Sinclair's 800-page A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives; the Association of American Publishers cited the catalogue as the best publication of 1999 in arts scholarship. In 1999, Sinclair was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of New Haven. In June 2012, Maestro Sinclair conducted at the Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, England, featuring Charles Ives's Universe Symphony, in Sinclair's performance version, and the Symphony No. 2. A native of Washington, DC, James Sinclair earned his bachelor's degree in music at Indiana University and taught at the University of Hawaii, where he earned his master's degree. He relocated to New Haven in 1972, where he served as an Assistant Professor and a Visiting Lecturer in Music at Yale University. Sinclair is an Associate Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale and oversees both the John Kirkpatrick Papers and the Charles Ives Papers at Yale. He is married to Sylvia Van Sinderen.
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Abigail Mistretta

Ocala Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio Abigail Mistretta is currently the Associate Director of Bands at Freedom High School in Orlando, FL. There she is the director of the Symphonic Band, Beginning Band, Intermediate Jazz Band, and serves as co-instructor of the marching band. In addition to instructing in Orlando, Abigail is also the Assistant Conductor of the Ocala Symphony Orchestra serving under Maestro Dr. Matthew Wardell. She is a graduate of the University of Florida (UF) with a master’s in wind conducting and clarinet performance. Abigail also received her bachelor’s of instrumental music education from UF in 2020. She has classroom teaching experience at the collegiate and high school level, and has been working with high school marching bands specifically as an Instrumental and Visual Instructor for the past 9 years in North Florida, Central Florida, and South Carolina.
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Daniel Singer

The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh / The Cleveland Orchestra
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Member Bio Daniel Singer is an accomplished conductor, vocalist, and music educator who harnesses his lifelong love of music to inspire choruses to achieve new heights of excellence in choral performance. In 2023, Daniel was appointed Robert Page Music Director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (MCP), the “chorus of choice” of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO). In this role, Daniel prepares a chorus of more than 120 singers to perform alongside the PSO under the direction of conductor Manfred Honeck for tens of thousands of people each year. He also leads the chorus in performing self-produced concerts that push artistic boundaries and reimagine choral music for the 21st century. Daniel has been a member of The Cleveland Orchestra conducting staff since 2012, where he serves as Assistant Director of Choruses and Director of the Youth Chorus. He has prepared choruses to perform under the batons of acclaimed conductors Franz Welser-Möst, Jakub Hrůša, Vinay Parameswaran, and Brett Mitchell, and he has assisted Director of Choruses Lisa Wong in preparing choruses for John Adams, Alan Gilbert, Jane Glover, and Matthias Pinscher. Daniel served for two years as Chorus Director for the Contemporary Youth Orchestra (Cleveland), where he readied singers for performances alongside rock icons Melissa Etheridge and Tommy Shaw. Daniel served on the music faculty at The College of Wooster where he taught courses in conducting, music education, and theory. Daniel previously served for 11 years as Director of Music at University School in Hunting Valley, Ohio, where he taught chorus and orchestra. He is also active as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician, and has led honor choirs and school ensembles in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and North Carolina. Daniel has sung with orchestras as a baritone soloist in performances of Handel’s Messiah, the Requiem masses of Mozart, Fauré, and Duruflé, and Vaughan Williams’ Hodie. Recent seasons included concert performances with the Wooster Symphony Orchestra, recital performances in Toronto and Wisconsin, and performances of the National Anthem in Louisville and Akron. Daniel also sang as a professional chorister with Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), Quire Cleveland, and The Lakeside Singers (Chicago) and has sung with both The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude in music education from Northwestern University and a Master of Music degree in conducting from Michigan State University.
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Bert Six

ARTOSO
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Member Bio Managing Director of ARTOSO. ARTOSO develops software solutions for art and education that helps organizations and school administrations with management.
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Quentin Slate

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