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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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Leonard Slatkin

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Brad Smith

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Member Bio The 2014-15 Season will mark Brad Smith’s first with The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. Dr. Smith is honored to be joining the music faculty at HSPVA and looks forward to working with the very talented students there and to many exciting performances in the years to come. June of 2014 completed Brad Smith’s eleventh year as Music Director of the Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble at the University of Pennsylvania. Under Smith’s direction, his ensembles have performed a wide array of repertoire, including masterworks of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and many others. Smith has also conducted works by noted contemporary composers such as John Adams, Jacob Druckman, Kevin Puts, Pierre Jalbert, Dana Wilson, Osvaldo Golijov, Jay Reise and Jennifer Higdon. Trained in the public schools of Texas, Smith holds Masters and Doctorate Performance Degrees in Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin and the Bachelor of Music degree and Texas Teacher Certification from Stephen F. Austin State University. Brad Smith also completed his ninth season as Music Director and Conductor of the Delaware County Youth Orchestra, an ensemble of approximately one hundred young musicians chosen by audition as representative of the very best talent in the entire Tri-State area. Each year the orchestra performs concert programs to great acclaim in the greater Philadelphia area. With the support of the DCYO Board of Directors, Smith launched the Distinguished Visiting Artist Series in 2008 with Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Jennifer Higdon. This special program features personal interaction between students and professional musicians, designed to give orchestra members an intimate view of the life and work of highly talented professional artists. In the past decade, Smith has enjoyed working with many prominent soloists, including most recently Richard Amoroso, violin, and Carol Jantsch, Principal Tuba of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has also collaborated with noted baritones Randall Scarlatta, Andrew Cummings and Norman Garrett; tenor Adam Frandsen and countertenor Roger Grant; sopranos Sarah Joanne Davis, Jennifer Greene and Maureen Scanlon, and mezzo-soprano Jody Kidwell. Most recently, Smith was honored to conduct the Penn Symphony Orchestra in a performance featuring world-renowned violinist David Kim, Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In recent years, Smith has served as a guest conductor for the Kentucky Music Educators Association Intercollegiate Orchestra and the Philadelphia based contemporary ensemble Orchestra 2001. He has previously served as faculty member and conductor of the Indiana University Summer Music Clinic Orchestra and also the American Festival for the Arts Orchestra. Dr. Smith is active as a clinician and adjudicator in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, Kentucky and Texas. Smith has conducted the music of Samuel Barber for the award-winning arts program “The Front Row” on Houston PBS affiliate KUHF. He has written on the topic of programming philosophies as related to both professional and university orchestras and has recently contributed to professional publications, writing about ways to make better connections between the conductor and orchestra members in rehearsal and performance. Dr. Smith has presented clinics for the College Orchestra Directors Association at national conferences in 2004 and in 2012 on the topics of “Orchestral Programming Philosophies” and “Expressive Conducting.” He maintains professional memberships in the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Orchestra Directors Association, College Music Society, College Orchestra Directors Association, Conductors Guild, League of American Orchestras and the National Association for Music Education. He and his wife Becki and their two daughters make their home in Houston.
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Deborah Smith Deborah Smith Colburn School of the Performing Arts

Colburn School of the Performing Arts
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Mr. Gregory Smith

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Member Bio The music of composer Gregory Smith covers a wide range of the musical world entertaining thousands every day and night at Disney theme parks while reaching millions on television networks throughout the world. His long association with the Walt Disney Company has yielded original themes, songs, and arrangements for their animated features, movies and all of their worldwide theme parks. Some of his best known nighttime spectaculars include Wishes and Holiday Wishes for Walt Disney World, Remember Dreams Come True for Disneyland's 50th anniversary, Star Light Magic for Tokyo Disneyland, and Disney In the Stars for Hong Kong Disneyland. More recently Smith arranged the music for the castle show at newly opened, Shanghai Disneyland and also just completed a stage show for Tokyo DisneySeas. His landmark nighttime parade, Dreamlights, is in its 16th year at Tokyo Disneyland. Smith’s broadcast credits range from major network themes including inauguration and election themes for CBS, the ubiquitous CBS logo, to underscores for the various Star Trek dramas, Warner Bros. cartoons, as well as sports themes for ESPN, TNT, ABC, Headline News, the NY Mets, the New Jersey Devils and the Tampa Bay Lightning. On the grandest of scale, Smith composed the music for the Salt Lake Paralympic opening ceremonies broadcast worldwide by ABC. He has written hundreds of commercial soundtracks for numerous companies that include Mattel, Disney, American Express, Kodak, Hasbro, and Proctor & Gamble. The family/educational symphonic works of Gregory Smith have enjoyed nearly 1,000 performances by more than 200 orchestras, often with Smith narrating. Orchestras such as the Atlanta, Baltimore, Bonn, Boston, Cincinnati, Minnesota and Toronto symphonies, as well as the Rochester and Hong Kong philharmonics, have embraced Greg’s unique approach to family/educational concerts. The international reach of these works continues to expand with numerous performances in the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Germany, Greece, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. Most of his eight works in this genre were premiered (all were performed) at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and conducted by his longtime champion, Marin Alsop. As a conductor, Smith has recorded with orchestras in London, San Francisco, Prague, Salt Lake City, and Seattle as well as numerous studio orchestras in New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville.
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