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Ms. Leslie Stewart
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Member Bio Leslie Stewart is director of String Pedagogy at Colorado State University and director of CSU's Summer Master of Music Education degree program with a Specialization in Conducting for working music educators. In addition, she conducts the CSU Concert Orchestra, teaches violin, coaches chamber music and plays violin in the faculty ensemble, the Verdoro String Trio. Ms. Stewart is a violinist with the Colorado Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra and Cheyenne Symphony and performs frequently with the Fort Collins Symphony. She was a member of the Cabrillo Music Festival of Contemporary Music Orchestra from 1980 to 2012. In 2013 she received the Outstanding Service Award from CSU's College of Liberal Arts. Previous academic posts include Old Dominion University where she served as Assistant Professor of Violin and Director of Orchestral Activities beginning in 2000 and received the Most Inspirational Faculty Member awards from the College of Arts and Letters in 2006. She has also served on the faculties of Christopher Newport University and the Governor's School for the Arts (both in Va.), Chowan College in N.C., and Dominican College of San Rafael in Calif. A graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Ms. Stewart holds Bachelor and Master's degrees in Music Performance from the University of Southern California. She was a member of the Puerto Rico Symphony and Alabama Symphony before moving to Northern California in 1989 to conduct the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra and direct the Marin Symphony's Youth Programs. During her six-year tenure in Marin, she also played violin with numerous professional orchestras including the California Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, Santa Cruz Symphony, Women's Philharmonic and Marin Symphony. For the next eight years, she served as Music Director and Conductor of the Bay Youth Orchestra of Virginia culminating in the Bay Youth Symphony's performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Aug. 2006. A popular guest conductor and clinician, Ms. Stewart has worked with numerous honor orchestras in Va., Md., Calif., and Colo. including the Colorado All-State Philharmonic and the Jefferson County High School Honor Orchestra.In 2013, she guest conducted the Poudre School District Middle School Orchestra in Ft. Collins, and District XI Concert Orchestra in San Antonio, sponsored by the Texas Music Educators Association. She is currently music director of the Health & Wellness Community Orchestra, a collaboration of Front Range Community College and University of Colorado Health Foundation. She has also guest conducted the Longmont Symphony and the Youth Orchestra of the Rockies. Other guest conducting appearances include the Milikin-Decatur Symphony in Ill., Orquestra de Jundai in Brazil, Ball State University Orchestra in Indiana, Women's Philharmonic in Calif., and Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra in Ala.
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Ms. Martha Stoddard
Oakland Civic Orchestra
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Member Bio Martha Stoddard enjoys a multi-faceted musical career as conductor, composer and flutist. She assumed the leadership of the Oakland Civic Orchestra in 1997 and began her 26th season as Music Director in the Fall of 2023. Praised for her clarity, generosity and vision, she has guided the orchestra through a major transformation and continues to strive for artistic excellence and growth. Originally trained as a flutist, she is principal flute for the Handel Opera Project and Piedmont Chamber Players, and performs chamber music locally and regionally. Ms. Stoddard also holds conducting positions with the Community Women’s Orchestra and the Piedmont Chamber Orchestra, and is a regular guest conductor of the Awesome Orchestra. Previous conducting posts include the Holy Names University Community Orchestra, San Francisco Composers’ Chamber Orchestra, and Resident Conductor for Enriching Lives Through Music. Stoddard also served as Program Director for the John Adams Young Composers Program at the Crowden Music Center and was the Director of Instrumental Music at Lick-Wilmerding High School for 30 years, serving as Performing Arts Department Chair and JV Tennis coach for several years. In 2023, Ms. Stoddard was selected as a conducting fellow in professional workshops in Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest Conducting Institute. An award-winning composer and conductor, Ms. Stoddard is a strong advocate for living and women composers, having conducted many contemporary works, premieres and commissions. In 2019 she brought the Oakland Civic Orchestra into the final round of the Ernst Bacon Prize for the Performance of American Music and in 2020 she was a finalist in the American Prize Competition for Conductors, Community Orchestra Division. Her popular orchestral work, A Little Trip to Outer Space, enjoyed its South Bay premiere by the San Jose Youth Symphony Concert Orchestra in June 2023. Other recent performances include premieres of Alexis Alrich, Jessica Krash, Monica Chew and Niko Umar Durr as well as works by Naomi Dodd, Germaine Tailleferre, Grace Williams, Florence Price and Louise Farrenc.
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Mr. Richard Stout
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Member Bio Music Director and Conductor Richard Stout studied at the University of Southern California and earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and a Master of Music degree in orchestral and opera conducting. His principal teachers were Charles C. Hirt, Daniel Lewis and Henry Holt. Richard also performed with Robert Shaw and Paul Salamunovich. He was active in southern California opera companies. An interest in the music of Bach led Richard to study with Helmuth Rilling, who invited him to the Frankfurt Musikhochschule, where Richard completed his diploma in Choral Conducting. While in Germany, he performed on German radio broadcasts, and also in Helmuth Rilling's two principal ensembles, the Gächinger Kantorei and Bach Collegium Stuttgart. Richard was later Roger Wagner's assistant at Pepperdine University. As Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Lehigh University, Richard performed Mendelssohn's Elijah, using his own revision of the English translation, and co-conducted the world premiere of Robert Moran's Hagoromo. Since coming to New York, Richard's conducting credits include the
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Elizabeth Stoyanovich
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Member Bio Hailed as a charismatic and outstanding conductor, Elizabeth Stoyanovich was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times as “… extremely impressive…clean, emotional and translucent in performance [she] conducted an overplayed war-horse as a newly-played symphony full of vibrancy and originality…” during a Pacific Symphony Orchestra subscription concert in front of a 8,000 member audience at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in Southern California. The Orange County Register noted, “Stoyanovich showed that she is a splendid talent, musical and with rock-solid technique…[she] made the New World Symphony sound new again…her musical passion [is] unfailingly strong.” Stoyanovich served for 12 seasons as Music/Artistic Director of the Orchestra of Saint Cecilia and has held many significant posts as a Music Director, Associate, Assistant, and Professor in the US. In fall of 2007, she had her English premiere guest conducting at the University of London, Kingston College Orchestra. In spring 2009 she premiered “Seven Last Words” by Patrick Stoyanovich at St. James Cathedral in Seattle. With many years of teaching in the public schools, colleges and arts magnet schools, Ms. Stoyanovich serves as Music Department Chair at Palisades Charter High School teaching symphony orchestra, concert orchestra, jazz band, AP Music Theory and Business of Music. In the summer of 2019, she was hired as an adjunct faculty at Santa Monica College directing the symphony orchestra. She completed successful tenures as Assistant Conductor of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Spokane Symphony, Education Conductor of the Fresno Philharmonic and Music Director of the Champlain Valley Symphony Orchestra and Bremerton Symphony Association. In addition, she served as Music Director of a number of outstanding ensembles for youths including the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Institute Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra and Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra. Guest conducting appearances include: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Women’s Philharmonic, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Chicago Civic Orchestra, L’Orchestra des Junes du Quebec, Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Newport Symphony Orchestra, Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra, the Tulare County Symphony and a variety of events for young musicians. Elizabeth is also known for her appealing dialogue from stage “…Stoyanovich presented a splendid introduction to the complications of this work [Brahms Symphony #3] in her pre-concert talk-few people are better at this than she.” She was honored to present the pre-concert lecture in Orange County for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Sam Stucky
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Member Bio Sam is currently studying music composition at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sam has previously served as an instructor with BOA’s Drum Major Institute and currently works with the Mt. Vernon “Band of Marauders” as a drum major, visual, and music technician. Sam served as drum major for two years at Zionsville Community High School and is excited to continue sharing his passion for conducting, leadership, and the marching arts with the next generation of drum majors!
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Neal Stulberg
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
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Member Bio Heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “. . .a shining example of podium authority and musical enlightenment,” NEAL STULBERG has garnered consistent international acclaim for performances of clarity, insight and conviction. Since 2005, he has served as Director of Orchestral Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. From 2014 to 2018, he served as Chair of the UCLA Department of Music. In North America, Mr. Stulberg has led the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta, Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Mexico City, National, New Jersey, New World, Oregon, Pacific, Phoenix, Saint Louis, San Antonio, San Francisco, Utah and Vancouver symphonies, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. A former assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Carlo Maria Giulini and music director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, he is a recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award. Mr. Stulberg’s European appearances have included performances in Germany with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and the orchestras of Augsburg, Bochum, Dortmund, Freiburg, Herford, Jena, Münster, Nürnberg, Oldenburg and Rostock. In Holland, he has conducted the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and led the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, North Holland Philharmonic, Gelders Orchestra and Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam. He has also appeared as guest conductor with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Norway), Warsaw Chamber Orchestra, Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra (Lithuania), Athens State Orchestra, London Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Barcelona Liceu Orchestra and Norwegian National Opera Orchestra. International engagements have also included the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Korea Philharmonic (KBS), Queensland, Adelaide and West Australian symphonies, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta and Ra’anana Symphonette. An acclaimed pianist, Stulberg has appeared as recitalist, chamber musician and with major orchestras and at international festivals as pianist/conductor. His performances of Mozart concertos conducted from the keyboard are uniformly praised for their buoyant virtuosity and interpretive vigor. In 2011-12, he performed the complete Mozart sonatas for violin and piano with violinist Guillaume Sutre at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall and at the Grandes Heures de Saint Emilion festival in France. In 2018, he performed throughout South Africa on a recital tour with saxophonist Douglas Masek and in 2022, appeared as solo pianist in the world premiere of Inclusion, a new work for pianist and chamber orchestra by Hugh Levick.
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