Member Login
Search
International Conductors Guild
Results 791 - 800 of 955
Avatar

Stephan Smoktunowicz

Work Phone
Member Bio Stephan was born in Nottingham, England and began his musical studies on the French horn at the age of 11. He is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (RNCM) and a postgraduate of Trinity College of Music, London. A successful career as a freelance French horn player was sadly cut short by the onset of a repetitive strain lip injury in 2000 and Stephan subsequently retrained into law, but music always remained a real passion. Conducting In 2013, Stephan took a break from law to start conducting studies and since 2014, he has studied in Italy with Ennio Nicotra, both on the continuing professional development course in orchestral conducting technique at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan and in annual courses and masterclasses in Milan, Palermo, Robbiate, Rome and Turin. Stephan has also studied in the England with Peter Stark and participated in orchestral and opera conducting masterclasses at the RNCM with Timothy Reynish, Mark Heron, Jac van Steen, Nicolás Pasquet and Gergely Madaras and in wind ensemble conducting masterclasses at Canford Summer School of Music with James Croft, Robert Ponto and Baldur Brönnimann (where he also attended orchestral masterclasses given by George Hurst). As part of his studies, Stephan has also spent time at rehearsals with the Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, gaining an invaluable insight into the work of several conductors including Christoph von Dohnányi, Andris Nelsons, Tugan Sokhiev and Donald Runnicles. Stephan has conducted and coached orchestras in the UK, Italy and Russia. Highlights include a performance of Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings with James Gilchrist (tenor), a concert at the 2015 World EXPO in Milan and working with the Nevsky Orchestra of Saint Petersburg (comprised of musicians from several leading professional orchestras in Saint Petersburg). In 2015, Stephan participated in the week long ‘Orchestral Life’ event in Robbiate, Italy, where he worked with principal players from several Italian professional orchestras, including the Orchestra of La Scala Milan, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome) and the Orchestra della Fondazione “Arturo Toscanini” (Parma). In 2019, Stephan won the Ilya Musin Society's First International Conducting Course 'City of Rome' and was nominated for a concert with the City of Rome Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, he also won the conducting masterclass held by the Steinway Society Piemonte e Valle d’ Aosta in Turin, Italy and was nominated for a performance with the Filarmonica ‘Mihail Jora’ Bacau, Romania. Teaching As a teacher and coach, Stephan has worked with young musicians at the Royal College of Music, London and Trinity College of Music, London. He has also worked with a number of youth orchestras and schools, providing ensemble and instrumental coaching.
Member Website
Avatar

Dr. Mariusz Smolij

Work Phone
Member Bio MARIUSZ SMOLIJ is considered one of the most exciting conductors of his generation. A frequent recording artist for Naxos International, he has been consistently gaining international critical acclaim, including praise from The New York Times for “compelling performances.” Maestro Smolij has led over 100 orchestras in 27 countries on five continents, appearing in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls. In North America, he has conducted (among many others) the Houston Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the Orchestra of the Chicago Lyric Opera, the St. Louis Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the New Orleans Philharmonic, the Hartford Symphony and Symphony Nova Scotia. Internationally, he enjoys a notable reputation, appearing with important symphonic ensembles in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Holland, Israel, South Africa, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Poland. His engagements have included collaborations with the Berner Symphony and Sinfonieorchester Basel in Switzerland (recording a CD and leading a series of concerts at the Tonhalle in Zürich with the latter), performances with Sinfonia Rotterdam, the Florence Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris, the Jena and Kiel Philharmonics in Germany, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic, the Bogota (Colombia) Philharmonic, the Johannesburg Philharmonic in South Africa, and all the leading orchestras in his native Poland—including Sinfonia Varsovia, the Lutoslawski Philharmonic and the Warsaw National Philharmonic. Maestro Smolij is currently in his tenth year as Music Director of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra in Lafayette, Louisiana, and in his 17th season as Music Director of the Riverside Symphonia in New Jersey. He is a former artistic director of the Lutoslawski Philharmonic in Wroclaw (Breslau), as well as the International Festival Wratislavia Cantans in Poland.
Member Website
Avatar

Erin Snedecor

OnCue
Work Phone
Member Bio
Member Website
Avatar

Tracey Lynn Snyder Tracey Snyder Cornell University

Cornell University
Work Phone
Member Bio
Member Website
Avatar

Perry So

Work Phone
Member Bio Perry So was born in Hong Kong in 1982 and received his early musical training in piano, organ, violin, viola and composition there. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in literature with a focus on the interaction of literature and music in Central Europe in the modernist era, and as a student at Yale he founded an orchestra and led the undergraduate opera company. He received his formal training as a conductor under Gustav Meier at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. In 2008 he received First and Special Prizes at the Fifth International Prokofiev Conducting Competition in St Petersburg, Russia. He has subsequently held posts as Assistant, then Associate Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Conducting Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artistic Collaborator of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias in Spain and is a member of the conducting faculty at the Manhattan School of Music. A presence in concert halls on five continents, Perry So recently made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony, his European operatic debut at the Royal Danish Opera in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and his North American operatic debut at Yale Opera in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Recent highlights include a tour to Milan with the Nuremberg Symphony and a seven-week tour of South Africa with three orchestras including Verdi’s Requiem in Cape Town, broadcast in July 2020 as the centrepiece of the South African National Arts Festival. In the coming season he will return to the San Francisco Symphony for his debut on the subscription series. He has enjoyed a long association with the Royal Danish Theatre and the Royal Danish Orchestra both on the concert stage and in the pit for opera and ballet. He has been a frequent guest at Walt Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and in 2013 toured the Balkan Peninsula at the helm of the Zagreb Philharmonic in the first series of cultural exchanges established after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Other debuts in recent years include appearances with the Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras, the symphony orchestras of Navarre, Málaga, Tenerife, Nuremberg, Israel, New Zealand, Houston, Detroit, New Jersey and Shanghai, the London, Szezcin, Seoul and China Philharmonics, the Residentie Orkest in the Hague and the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz. His work in the recording studio encompasses a broad sampling of twentieth century British, French and Russian music with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and his album of Barber and Korngold's Violin Concertos with soloist Alexander Gilman and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra was awarded the Diapason d’Or in January 2012. His wide-ranging musical interests encompass numerous world premieres on four continents as well as the reintroduction of Renaissance and Baroque repertory into symphonic programs, most notably championing the works of Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Member Website
Avatar

Nathan Sonnenfeld

Work Phone
Member Bio Born and raised in New York and based in Chicago since 2020, Nathan Sonnenfeld began playing the violin at the age of five using the Suzuki Method. He is currently studying violin with David Taylor, Assistant Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony. His primary violin teachers have been Mary Ann Mumm, Jay Christy, Liba Shacht, Shannon Thomas, Gabriel Pegis, and Diane Duraffourg Robinson. He has played in masterclasses and lessons for Ida Kavafian, Weigang Li, Joseph Silverstein, Joel Smirnoff, and Madeline Adkins. His primary Suzuki teacher trainers were Allen Lieb and Ann Montzka-Smelzer and he did additional studies with Edward Kreitman and Linda Case. As a performer, Nathan was Assistant Principal 2nd Violin of the University Community Orchestra at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and has been a member of the New York Repertory Orchestra, Opera Orchestra of Montclair, and the Symphony Orchestras of Montclair State University, Chicago College of the Performing Arts, and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He has played under the direction of some of the most esteemed and respected conductors in the world, including Gerard Schwarz, Ken Lam, Sebastian Lang Lessing, Rune Bergmann, Mark Gibson, JoAnn Falletta, Tito Munoz, Steven Reineke, and Keith Lockhart. He has performed in some of the most prominent concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall (then Avery Fischer Hall) at Lincoln Center in New York, Symphony Center and Auditorium Theater in Chicago, the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University in New Jersey, the Adrienne Arsht Center Ziff Ballet Opera House in Miami, Florida and the Cathedral Metropolitina in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During the summers, Nathan has participated in the Brevard Music Center, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Miami Music Festival and Eastern Music Festival. Active as a teacher in the Chicago area, he is on the faculty for the Merit School of Music, teaching both private lessons and group classes. He previously taught for Montclair’s Preparatory Center for the Arts and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, worked for the New York Philharmonic, the Paterson Music Project, Kaufman Music Center, and Tarisio Auctions. In his spare time, Nathan enjoys reading, watching tv and rooting for the New York Yankees.
Member Website
Avatar

Jorge Soto

Work Phone
Member Bio Jorge Soto is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist with an active and diverse career both in North and South America. Currently, he is the Principal Conductor of the New Philharmonia Orchestra, the Principal Guest Conductor of the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra, and the Music Director of the Sistema Side-by-Side Orchestra at Longy School of Music. In addition to his regular posts, Mr. Soto has collaborated with several orchestras, most recently the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has twice conducted the Boston Symphony Chamber Players: first in October 2019 for a performance of Stravinsky’s Octet at Jordan Hall, and again at Symphony Hall in December 2020, leading the ensemble in Elena Langer’s Five Reflections on Water. The latter performance was filmed and released as part of a BSO streaming concert in January 2021. Mr. Soto also served as assistant or cover conductor on several occasions throughout the BSO’s 2020-21 online season. In addition, he assisted Gustavo Dudamel in the preparation of Puccini’s Turandot with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in December 2015. Also a passionate educator, he has worked with orchestras at Assumption University and Clark University. Born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Mr. Soto is a product of El Sistema, an innovative program that uses classical music as a vehicle for social change. He began his musical studies in Venezuela at the Vicente Emilio Sojo State Conservatory, later studying violin at the Latin American Academy of Violin under Rhio Sanchez and José Francisco Del Castillo. A founding member of the Simón Bolívar National Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, he has also performed with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. He remains very active in El Sistema in Venezuela, where he teaches violin, coaches chamber music, and conducts orchestras around the country, including serving as a guest conductor with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Soto graduated with a Master of Music degree in conducting from the New England Conservatory. His conducting teachers and mentors include Harold Farberman, Stephen Tucker, Jani Telaranta, and Charles Peltz. On violin, he has studied with Sophie Vilker, Janne Malmivaara, Peter Sulski, and Timothy Schwarz.
Member Website
Avatar

Jonathan Spatola-Knoll

Work Phone
Member Bio Dr. Jonathan Spatola-Knoll is an award-winning conductor, musicologist, violist, and collaborative pianist based in Olympia, WA. Prior to his current appointment as Assistant Conductor for Symphony Tacoma, he acted as Music Director of the Alma Symphony Orchestra. The winner of the 2020 Cascade Conducting Fellowship and a finalist for the American Prize in Orchestral Conducting, his accomplishments also include a residency at the Salzburg Festival as a winner of the Ansbacher Fellowship for Young Conductors (Vienna Philharmonic and American-Austrian Foundation). Spatola-Knoll has been awarded 3rd place in Vytautas Marijosius Award in Orchestral Programming for his advocacy of new music and underrepresented composers. He has conducted world premieres of orchestral and operatic works by Murray Gross, William Cooper, Chris Castro, and other nationally recognized composers. A recent CD on Centaur Records features him as an assistant conductor and viola soloist in music by Ligeti and Varèse. An advocate of historically underrepresented composers, Spatola-Knoll is North America’s Leading expert on Swedish Romantic composer, organist, and feminist pioneer Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929). His editions of her music have been used by orchestras internationally. His publishers include Hildegard Publishing, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, and Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. His edition of her First Symphony - the earliest known symphony by a Swedish woman - is under contract with A&R Editions, North America’s leading publisher of scholarly musical editions. Spatola-Knoll holds advanced degrees in musicology and conducting from the University of California, Davis, where he acted as assistant conductor for the University Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus. As an instrumentalist, he has held positions as principal violist of the UC Davis Symphony and as a pianist and vocal coach at St. Martin’s University and the Sacramento Opera. His academic appointments have included full-time faculty positions at Alma College (Alma, MI) and Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA). He is a citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom.
Member Website
Avatar

Robert Stahly

Work Phone
Member Bio Engaged in every aspect of music, Robert Stahly is an award-winning Northern Colorado based musician. As an educator Mr. Stahly has taught instrumental music for over a decade. Director of Orchestras at Longmont High School, Stahly grew the orchestra program to over triple its size while at the same time increasing the quality and diversity of the ensembles. The LHS Chamber Orchestra consistently ranks as one of the top high school orchestras in Colorado and was selected to perform at the Colorado Music Educators Conference in 2016. In 2016 Stahly was recognized as one of the top six educators in the St. Vrain Valley School District with an “Encore Award” and in 2019 Stahly was a finalist for “Teacher of the Year”. He created the Music Technology and Stage Technology classes. In 2014 he took over the AP Music Theory class. Outside of the classroom, Stahly spent eleven years working with the Loveland High School Marching Band in a variety of capacities: Tuba Instructor, Assistant Director, Sound Engineer, and Lead Visual Instructor. He is the conductor of the Longmont Youth Symphony String Ensemble, the Denver Young Artists Orchestra String Ensemble, and is a frequent guest conductor and clinician. As an instrumentalist Stahly has performed in six countries with a variety of ensembles playing cello, tuba, and bass. Most recently he was appointed Associate Principal Cellist of the Longmont Symphony, having previously being a member of the section. Stahly freelances with other ensembles in the area, and has appeared on several recordings. A 2008 graduate of Colorado State University, Stahly received degrees in Music Education, Tuba Performance, and a String Pedagogy Certificate. Since then, he has continued to study at programs such as the CU Conducting Workshop, Conductors Institute at Bard College, MSU Conducting Symposium, Eastman School of Music Conducting Workshop, and CCM's Opera Bootcamp. Screen Shot 2017-11-13 at 7.00.27 PM (2).png CONDUCTOR A consummate student, Robert continues his education to this day. Robert has attended the Bard College Conductors Institute, University of Colorado Conducting Symposium, Eastman Summer Conducting Institute, Michigan State University Conducting Symposium, Arapahoe Philharmonic Conducting Workshops, and CCM Opera Bootcamp. In this time, Robert was able to work with incredible and inspirational teachers such as Gary Lewis, Donald Schleicher, Larry Livingston, Harold Farberman, Eduardo Navega, Ginamaria Griglio, Guillermo Figueroa, Wes Kenney, Scott O’Niel, Lawrence Golan, Neil Varon, Kevin Noe, Apo Hsu, and Mark Gibson. Outside of the study of conducting, Robert has also attended and presented at numerous State Music Educator Conferences, American String Teachers Association State and National Conferences, the MidWest Band and Orchestra Convention, and Boulder Bach Festival.
Member Website
Avatar

Jackie Stander

The Stander Group, Inc.
Work Phone
Member Bio
Member Website
« Start ‹ Prev of 96 Next › End »