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Donald Swinchoski

Count Basie Center for the Arts
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Member Bio I teach not just the mechanics of playing an instrument or singing. I share my love of music in a variety of ways. Instilling confidence is an important factor in helping a young musician understand what is possible. The next is the "joy" of practicing. Learning through repetition of sequenced patterns. Then through modeling, singing, "fingering" and other teaching tools the learners accomplish something greater. At this point, the learner is ready for the next challenge. It may sound simple but at this time musicians are ready to repeat the process to learn new music.
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Gerald A Szymanski Gerald Szymanski Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music
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Kevin Sütterlin

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Member Bio Dr. Kevin F.E. Sütterlin is an internationally sought-after conductor and pedagogue. Sütterlin is Director of Orchestral Activities and Opera and Associate Professor of Conducting at Concordia College. Under his direction, The Concordia Orchestra has won the prestigious American Prize in 2018-19. He and his colleagues and students received two EMMY awards for the nationally broadcast Concordia Christmas Concert productions in 2016. Sütterlin is Music Director of the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra — one of Wisconsin’s finest professional orchestras — which is currently a finalist for the American Prize professional orchestra division 2023 (Sütterlin himself is also currently a finalist in the professional conducting division). Together with his best friend, Dr. Mathias O. Elmer, he is Music Co-Director of Sinfonietta Memphis, an ensemble that provides free concerts and educational experiences for the Greater Memphis communities. Celebrating the orchestra’s tenth season, and perhaps the only orchestra in the U.S. with a co-directorship model, Sinfonietta Memphis’s conductors Elmer and Sütterlin proudly represent the orchestra’s credo: friendship through music. They also co-direct The Sinfonietta Academy for Historically Informed Performance Practice which has recently been recognized as one of the country’s leading period performance practice institutes. In 2019, Sütterlin was named Principal Guest Conductor of the Qingdao Concert Hall Symphony in China, and in 2021 Honorary Conductor of K-Classic Orchestras, a Korean organization dedicated to contributing to world peace through musical and cultural exchange. Sütterlin furthermore serves as Principal Guest Conductor of Fargo-Moorhead Opera, where he recently directed productions of Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Humperdinck’s Hänsel and Gretel to great acclaim, and where he will return again this season. With a great love and passion for teaching, Sütterlin is also Artistic Director of the Northern Valley Youth Orchestras, and holds The Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Endowed Orchestra Chair of the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival, directing the organization’s orchestral and conducting programs. He has been recognized as one of the country’s leading conducting pedagogues, being praised for his keen analytical eye and deep understanding of conducting technique and physique, paired with a kind and caring approach that has empowered over 150 conductors and conducting students across the globe so far. He is a much sought-after clinician for regional, state-wide, national, and international music festivals and workshops.
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Mr. Marc Taddei

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Member Bio After 15 years of successful music directorships in New Zealand and a substantial career in Australasia, Marc Taddei was appointed Music Director of his first American Orchestra on 30 March 2016. The Vallejo Symphony Orchestra, with a proud 88-year history, is California’s seventh oldest orchestra and is located in the city of Vallejo, near San Francisco. Celebrated for his “magnificent contribution as Music Director” by The Press, lauded as “a real interpreter of boldly romantic inclinations” by the Dominion Post and singled out for his “intensity, commitment and attention to detail” by the Capital times, conductor Marc Taddei was appointed Music Director of Orchestra Wellington in 2007. His zest for creating engaging, erudite and innovative programmes, combined with his close audience connection has won for him an unsurpassed public following and continuing critical acclaim. Marc frequently conducts every professional orchestra in New Zealand. He regularly works with the national ballet and opera companies and the International Festival of the Arts. Outside of New Zealand, Marc is routinely re-invited to guest conduct the major Australian orchestras and returns every year to conduct in the United States. He made his debut with the New York City Ballet in late 2012 and was immediately invited to conduct a full season the following year. Recent debuts include performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and the Xiamen Symphony Orchestra in China. Continually noted for his interpretations, Middle C said of a recent performance, “…here was a performance that recalled for me the astonishment and excitement I felt when I first heard the work in my teens.” Similarly, City Voice (Wellington) wrote, “Here in our midst we have a conductor who is young, charismatic, and is able to communicate his emotions and visions of these great works to an orchestra, so that they can reach out and touch an audience like very few can actually do.” His work in Vallejo and Wellington follows a highly successful tenure as music director of the Christchurch Symphony. The Christchurch Press praised Taddei at the conclusion of his directorship as, “the orchestra’s music director, whose energy, exuberance, drive and vision proved beyond all doubt that music is an essential feature of daily life in a 21st century city.” Recently, Wellington’s Dominion Post wrote, “Marc Taddei and his Wellington players have become a great success story in a short time. Taddei’s programming is imaginative, his demeanor infectious and his skill have seen a distinct increase in playing standards.” Classical Sonoma commented on Marc’s “commanding conducting” during his first performance with the Vallejo Symphony.
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Toru Tagawa

Sierra Vista Symphony
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Member Bio Toru, from Hiroshima, Japan, started playing the violin at age 6, and joined the Kurashiki Junior Philharmonic Orchestra at age 9. He received his Violin Performance degrees from the University of Tulsa (BM) and the Florida State University (MM), and a Music Education degree (MME) from the University of Arizona. His main Violin teachers include Steven Moeckel, Gary Kosloski, Eliot Chapo, Derry Deane, and Mikio Ejima. Toru has been the Music Director and Conductor of the Tucson Repertory , Artistic Director of the Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Director of the Canyon del Oro High School Orchestra. His conducting teachers include Thomas Cockrell, Charles Bontrager, Jung-Ho Pak, and Maurice Peress. Toru made his debut at Carnegie Hall in March, 2017. As active violinist, he plays with the Tucson Symphony, Tucson Pops, Arizona Opera Orchestras, and has played with National Repertory (CO), Shreveport (LA), Arkansas, Tallahassee (FL), AIMS (Austria), Hiroshima (Japan) ,and Vancouver (Canada) Symphony Orchestras. Toru is the President for the American String Teachers Association of Arizona.
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Ms. Kate Tamarkin

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Member Bio Kate Tamarkin joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in the fall of 2006 bringing a background of over twenty years as a professional conductor and educator. She is currently the Music Director Laureate of the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, having retired from the Orchestra and the University of Virginia in May of 2017. She has been Music Director of the Monterey Symphony (CA), Vermont Symphony, East Texas Symphony, and the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (WI). She was also the Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony under the late Eduardo Mata. Her guest conducting credits include the Shanghai Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, National Symphony of Moldova, and the following US orchestras: Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, Phoenix, Nashville, New Mexico, Oklahoma City, Tucson, Pacific (CA), Eastern Music Festival (NC), and Chicago’s Grant Park Festival. Ms. Tamarkin is a Certified Music Practitioner on the harp and is a Musician in Residence at the UVa Medical Center as well as the Program Coordinator for “Music by the Bedside” for the Hospice of the Piedmont. Ms. Tamarkin holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, a Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Chapman University in California.
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Philip Tappan

US Army
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Member Bio Born in Schenectady, NY and raised in Saratoga Springs, NY, Philip Tappan premiered and conducted his first composition at the age of 14 with the Saratoga Springs High School Orchestra. Philip has previously studied conducting with Dr. David Rudge, Dr. Timothy Dixon, Murray Sidlin, Diane Wittry, Mark Heron, Bjorn Sagstad & Colin Metters. Among other notables, Philip has worked and studied with the late Deliah Wallis (voice/opera), Lee Shaw (jazz piano) & Fr. Sean Duggan (Hindemith Studies). As a conductor, Philip has also held engagements with the Rocky Ridge Music Center (Estes Park, CO), US Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” 1st Cavalry Division Band (TX), University of Kabul (Afghanistan), American School Honor Band (Amman, Jordan), 2nd Infantry Division Band (Rep. of Korea), West Shore Symphony Orchestra (Harrisburg, PA), Messiah College Symphony Orchestra (Grantham, PA), and Capitol Opera Harrisburg (Harrisburg, PA). Philip was also choirmaster of the Trinity Episcopal Church Choir, Fredonia, NY from January 2009 to 2010. From 2010-2011, Philip volunteered as a school teacher in the City of Tbilisi Public School System through the Ministry of Education, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (the former Soviet Bloc State). Working with the national conservatory and the US Embassy in Tbilisi, he was also invited to give four lectures to Georgian youth on American Classical music in the 20th century. Philip continues to compose and transcribe, primarily for wind and chamber ensembles. Currently Philip is serving in the US Army Bands as a conductor, with the rank of Captain (O-3), and is assigned at the US Army School of Music as the company commander. He joined the US Army Bands in 2013, initially serving as a pianist, with the rank of Specialist (E-4). He is a distinguished honor graduate from the Officer Candidate School (FT Benning, GA) and the US Army School of Music Advanced Individual Training (JEB Little Creek, VA). Philip is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a BA in music composition (Messiah University), BM in music education (SUNY Fredonia), MM in orchestral conducting (SUNY Fredonia), EMBA (Quantic University), and is currently pursuing an MS in Psychology from the University of Wolverhampton.
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Mark Taylor

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Member Bio I am a versatile orchestra conductor. The areas where I have the greatest interest, expertise, and experience are 1) working with semi-professional and advanced university orchestras 2) collaborative conducting: choral/orchestral masterworks, opera, musical theatre and ballet 3) working with teaching orchestras 4) making less-familiar repertoire accessible to musicians and audience members 5) rehearsing and performing orchestral works in a stylistically appropriate and compelling manner 6) conducting engaging educational concerts for area elementary school students and 7) not shying away from performing popular repertoire.
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Paul Taylor

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Member Bio A native of San Francisco, Paul Wegman Taylor, began learning violin under his grandfather, Willem Wegman, a principal violinist for over 30 years in the San Francisco Opera and Symphony Orchestras. Paul‘s mother, Anne Wegman Taylor, a skilled accompanist and trained opera singer and teacher, proved a perfect chamber music coach for her children. Ross Taylor, Paul‘s father, young horn player in the New York Philharmonic section, became George Szell‘s chosen solo horn player in 1950‘s Cleveland Orchestra, before returning home to the California Bay Area, taking the Symphony and Opera solo horn positions in San Franciso in 1956. Paul Wegman Taylor young violin and horn pupil, was more nature boy and horseman than student. Initially considering history and law as fields of study, the sound of music, youth orchestras and the call of the horn became deafening. This resulted in Paul's earning the Degrees Bachelor of Music 1976, and Master of Music 1978 in horn performance from The Juilliard School, New York. Meanwhile, Paul appeared regularly as extra hornist with the New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and played principal horn in various regional Orchestras. Appearances as extra player with The San Francisco Symphony and on tour with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra provided impulses for musical wanderlust. Playing under the direction of Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abaddo, Seiji Ozawa, Rafael Kubelik, Gennady Rozdestvensky, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Erik Leinsdorf, Herbert Blomstedt, and others, proved to be inspiring. Parallel activities as a chamber musician in many formations fostered Paul's interest in shaping ensemble music himself. Maestro David Gilbert‘s teaching prepared Paul for acceptance in the graduate conducting program at CCNY Queens College, Aaron Copland School under Maurice Peress. Then an engagement to play horn in a village summer opera, Urs Steiner‘s „Il Secondo Settenio“, provided Taylor with an unexpected bridge to Europe: ultimately 3 years intensive private and masterclass studies with Walter Hügler, Professor in Trossingen, followed upon Vienna Masterclasses with Bruno Weil and Julius Kalmar in Italy, as well as international masterclasses with Jorma Panula and Markus Lehtinen. First jobs as conductor 1992 were workshops conducting 20th Century repertoire for students in Camerata Lysy of Yehudi Menuhin‘s Academy, Berne, Switzerland, and assisting in independant productions of modern opera in Vienna‘s Opera Theater. Since 1993 Paul conducts the Kirchgemeindeorchester Zürich-Schwamendingen. Paul’s directorships during 1996 – 2008 included of the Kammerorchester des Musik-Collegiums Schaffhausen, the Zumiker Musiker String Orchestra, youth symphony orchestra Nota Bene of Zurich, the Finnish Choir of Zurich, and Artistic Leader/ Conductor of Jakobstads Orkester in Jakobstad, Finland.
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Dr. Mehran Tebyani

Beverly Hills Philharmonic Association
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Member Bio Mehran Tebyani is a Musician, Orchestra Conductor, and Composer. He is a Doctorate Candidate in Organizational Leadership. He has received his Master degree in Orchestral Conducting and his Bachelor degree in Composition. Mehran is the Founder of Beverly Hills Academy of Music and Director of Beverly Hills Philharmonic Orchestra – BH Phil. #mehrantebyani-Doctorate Candidate of Education in Organizational Leadership-Master of Music in Orchestra Conducting-Bachelor of Music in Composition Experienced Music Director with a demonstrated history of working in the music industry. Skilled in Orchestral Music Conducting and Composition in Contemporary Music. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master of Music (M.M.) focused in Orchestral Conducting and a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in Classical Composition from California State University-Northridge. Lullaby for Orchestra, Harp, Santoor, and Choir in Farsi – Lullaby for Orchestra, Harp, Santoor, and Choir in Farsi – Mehran Tebyani, Composer and Conductor
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