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Dr. T. Vives Ph.D.

Los Alamos Community Winds
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Member Bio Ted Vives, (b. 1964) originally from Auburn, Alabama, began music studies at the age of 4. His musical interests changed to trombone performance and composition upon entering the public school system. Vives holds bachelor’s degrees in both Composition and Music Education from Florida State University where he studied composition with John Boda and Charles Carter and conducting with James Croft. His trombone instructors have included William Cramer and John Drew. He also holds a Masters of Music in Composition and Music Theory and a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Florida where he studied composition with Budd Udell and John D. White and conducting with David Waybright. Currently, Vives is in his 16th season as the Musical and Artistic director for the Los Alamos (NM) Community Winds - 1st Runner-up and 3rd Place in the 2012 and 2014 American Prize, (Community Wind Ensemble Division.) His arrangements and compositions for marching and concert band have been performed worldwide. His …and they pealed more loud and deep for wind ensemble won the North Cheshire (UK) 2003 Composition Competition and his fanfare for wind ensemble, For the Fair and the Brave, was commissioned by the Tallahassee Winds and performed during their 2004 tour of Australia. In 2003 and 2010, he received the honor of being selected as the Commissioned Composer for the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico. He is the winner of the 2011 American Prize in Composition (Choral Division.) Dr. Vives holds memberships in Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Phi Kappa Phi, WASBE, Music Educators National Conference, Music Teachers National Association, National Band Association, and The Conductor’s Guild. He is the State Composition Chair for the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico. In addition to his conducting duties, he performs as principal trombone with the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, and teaches low brass instruments privately. He resides in Los Alamos, New Mexico with his wife Paula, son Alex, and daughter Abby.
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Vlad Vizireanu

Northern Arizona University (DOA), Angeles Symphony Orchstra (MD)
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Member Bio Described as a conductor with “ample gestures, clarity, precision and genuine passion,” Vlad Vizireanu continues to make an impressive and dynamic mark on the music world as an international conductor and educator. A regular presence in the competition circuit, Vizireanu came to international attention when he won Second Prize in the 2013 Cadaqués Conducting Competition in a televised concert at Auditori Hall, Barcelona. He then made his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall as Finalist in the 2016 Donatella Flick Competition. He was invited to the 2018 Malko Competition with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and was also invited among 14 conductors (out of 400 applicants worldwide) to participate in the renowned Mahler Conducting Competition with the Bamberg Symphony. As the winner of both the Only Stage & Hans von Bülow Conducting Competitions in 2021, recent engagements included the Orchestra di Milano La Verdi, Orchestra della Magna Grecia, Manchester Camerata, Wiener Kammerorchester, Orchestre National de Lille, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Puebla, New Mexico Philharmonic, Rockford Symphony, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Moldova Iași Philharmonic, Brașov Philharmonic, Sibiu State Philharmonic, Ploiești Philharmonic, Timișoara Philharmonic and Târgu Mureș Philharmonic. He has also served as cover conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Naples Philharmonic, and Sarasota Orchestra. His primary conducting teachers were David Effron, Arthur Fagen, Timothy Russell, and William Reber. He holds degrees in conducting from Arizona State University (Doctor of Musical Arts), Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Master of Music), and studied musicology and piano performance at the University of California Los Angeles (Bachelor of Arts). Additionally, he studied with David Zinman at the 2016 Tonhalle Orchestra Masterclass, with Kurt Masur at the 2015 Manhattan School of Music Conducting Seminar and was selected for two consecutive years as one of seven conductors from around the world to study with Bernard Haitink at the 2013 and 2014 Lucerne Easter Festivals. Vizireanu was one of the last students of Lorin Maazel under full fellowship at the 2014 Castleton Festival. He also received the prestigious 2013 Chautauqua Conducting Fellowship in New York where he assisted Timothy Muffitt. Among his other mentors were Michael Tilson Thomas (2014, New World Symphony Masterclass), Neeme Järvi (2016, Gstaad Music Festival), Franz Welster-Möst (2010, IU Cleveland Orchestra Residency Masterclass), and the late James DePriest (2011, ASU Conducting Masterclass). In Fall 2013 he was invited to debut at the renowned Enescu Festival in Bucharest where he conducted a side-by-side concert with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Romanian Royal Camerata. He conducted the RRC again in the 2015 edition of the Enescu Festival with soloist, Rebekka Hartmann, and has since been reinvited to the 2019, 2021, and 2023 editions with the Orchestre National de Lille, Wiener Kammerorchester, and Manchester Camerata. An ardent advocate of new music, Vizireanu is the Founder & Executive Director of Impulse New Music Festival (INMF), which brings together young composers and instrumentalists to study and perform new compositions. Besides INMF’s numerous world premieres, Vizireanu has premiered and showcased new compositions with the Castleton Festival Orchestra, Cadaqués Symphony, and Hebrides New Music Ensemble. Some new works he has recently recorded include Light Show by Max Grafe, Scherzo for Orchestra by Joshua Groffman, and Evelyne Davis’ Concerto for Two Percussionists. He recently commissioned several new compositions by renowned Los Angeles composer, Michael Glenn Williams, and conducted the world premieres with the Arizona Pro Arte Ensemble and Sibiu Philharmonic. Vizireanu made his operatic debut in 2013 with Arizona State University Opera and Die Fledermaus. He served as assistant conductor to Lorin Maazel and Timothy Muffitt with productions of Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Madama Butterfly, and Don Giovanni. Vizireanu was recently appointed Regular Guest Conductor with the Moldova Iași and Ploiești Philharmonics in Romania as well as Director of Orchestras at Northern Arizona University’s Kitt School of Music. He served as Music Director of the Knox Galesburg Symphony in Illinois and the North Shore Symphony in New York, and previously served as Assistant Conductor for the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic and Conductor for New West Symphony’s Harmony Project and the Seraphim Symphony Youth Orchestra in California, which were aimed at inspiring young children to develop a lifelong love of music through education and exciting musical experiences. He also served as Artistic Director of Enescu & The Americas, an organization that fostered cultural exchange between Romania and the US.
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Giang Vo

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Member Bio Giang Vo holds a bachelor's degree in violin performance from Oklahoma City University, where he studied under Dr. Benjamin Shute and Dr. Sophia Ro. He additionally studied historical performance and harpsichord with Anastasia Abu Bakar. He has participated in masterclasses with notable artists such as Noah Bendix-Balgley from the Berlin Philharmonic and Sheryl Staples from the New York Philharmonic. Prior to attending Northwestern University, Giang served as co-artistic director and violinist with the Oklahoma Baroque Orchestra. His conducting education began with Professor Jeffrey Grogan at Oklahoma City University and Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. He has also been an apprentice conductor for several Classics concerts with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Currently, Giang studies under Donald Schleicher and holds the position of graduate assistant conductor for both the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra and the Northwestern University Philharmonia Orchestra. He recently made his operatic debut, assisting Benjamin Manis in conducting a production of Cosi fan tutte with the Northwestern University Opera company. With the success of Così fan tutte, Giang was invited by the Northwestern University Opera department to be their music director for their Fall 2024 production of Albert Herring.
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Joseph Vranas

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Member Bio Joseph Vranas is a conductor, composer, and music educator in Los Angeles, California. He is the Artistic Director of the Gay Freedom Band of Los Angeles, conductor of the GFBLA Concert Band, and a conductor of the Camino Nuevo Youth Orchestra as a part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s YOLA Program. His passion for community and education has been central to his career, and he has held conducting positions with the Saturday Conservatory of Music and Harmony Project's Youth Orchestras and Wind Ensembles, and assisted music and art programs at Bell High School through EduCare. Joseph’s diverse conducting career has taken him to stages across the United States and internationally. He has appeared as a conductor with the Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria, the Pride Bands Alliance national conference in Denver, the Pacific Artists Collective in Oregon, and the Maryland Chamber Winds in Virginia. As a composer, Joseph has written for a wide range of settings, including concert hall, ballet, film, and theatre. His works have been performed in Bolivia, France, Germany, and across the US, earning him recognition from the Houston 48 Hour Film Competition, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the Bolivian Music Festival, and the Cannes Film Festival. Joseph holds Masters degrees in Composition and Trumpet Performance from the University of Oregon, and studied Composition and Music Education at Sam Houston State University. With more than 10 years of experience teaching high brass, music theory, and music history to students ranging from elementary school to college, he believes strongly in the transformative power of music education. His dedication has been recognized by the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) and the City of Bell.
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Dr. Rachel Waddell

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H Grace Wahlen

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Member Bio H. Grace Wahlen is a conductor, collaborative pianist, and horn player currently pursuing graduate studies at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) under the mentorship of Colombian conductor Dr. Andrés Felipe Jaime, where she is also assistant conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra. She recently collaborated with Chilean composer Sebastián Vergara, leading the UNC Symphony in performance of his El Despertar de la Especie. Grace has participated in several conducting programs, including the Signature Symphony Conducting Seminar with Scott Seaton and Robin Fountain and the University of Oregon Conducting Institute with Mark Gibson and David Jacobs.
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Adam Waite

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Member Bio Adam Waite is the Minister of Music at Denver Colorado’s historic Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church. In addition to overseeing the church’s broad musical and artistic programming, Adam also conducts Montview’s Westminster Choir: an 80-voice mixed chorus that is the cornerstone of weekly worship. Since arriving at Montview in the Fall of 2015, Adam has led concert performances of Gustav Holst: The Cloud Messenger (Colorado Premiere); Paulus: Heritage Songs (Colorado Premiere); Nancy Galbraith: Missa Mysteriorum (Orchestral World Premiere); Poulenc: Gloria; Finzi: In Terra Pax; Rutter: Gloria; Ellington: Sacred Concert (50th anniversary performance) and Dvořák: Mass in D. As a composer/arranger, his commissioned works have been performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, The Metropolis Symphony and the folk super-group, I’m With Her. He has written for over forty different Broadway casts as Music Supervisor and Director for Broadway Cares: Carols for a Cure. His orchestral work The Tool Collector was heralded by the LA Times for its use of “minimalist texture while seamlessly contrasting symphonic strings with jazz horns,” and his re-imagined score to Dave Brubeck’s “To Hope!” was premiered at St. Peter’s Church prestigious jazz vespers. MORRISON, CO – APRIL 28: Vocalist JoFoKe, right, dances and sings during the Red Rocks o’clock Howl at the Red Rocks Amphitheater to celebrate Red Rocks’ 80th anniversary April 28, 2021. Pianist Adam Waite, left, plays along to a large crowd. The event featured local acts who kept the music alive during the pandemic and culminated with an 8 o’clock howl honoring first responders, medical personal and frontline workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post) Along with Grammy- Award winning singer & composer Peter Eldridge, he co-composed the score to the PBS documentary, No Job for A Woman: The Women Who Fought To Report WWII. He is a long-time collaborator with Broadway star Mara Davi, whose original songs “Lay Your Battle Down” and “When I” were included in the soundtrack to the film Gordon Family Tree. As a conductor and church musician, Adam has also led performances of major works including Mozart: Requiem, Finzi: Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice, Rutter: Requiem, Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio, Galbraith: Four River Songs, Four Nature Canticles (world premiere), Faure: Requiem, Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Weston: Piano Concerto, Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat, and Thompson: Frostiana. Adam also leads the Ghost Ranch Chorale, an annual week-long choral festival in Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM. Prior to Montview, Adam lived and worked in the New York City area, where he was Co-Artistic Director and Resident Conductor for Lyrica Chamber Music and the Director of Music at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township, NJ. Adam was born and raised in Albany, NY.
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Mr. Bruce Walker Jr.

Columbia Basin College
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Member Bio St. Louis, Missouri native, Bruce Walker, currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington. Duties include teaching courses in Western Music History, second year Music Theory, Advance Aural Skills, and Director of the Columbia Basin College Orchestra. He is also Music Director for the Yakima Youth Symphony Orchestra, Cover Conductor for the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor and Conductor of Preparatory Orchestras for the Oregon East Symphony. He has previously served as Director of Orchestral Activities for the Sunnyside School District in Sunnyside, Washington, Conductor for the Kittitas Valley Youth Orchestra, Co-conductor of the Ellensburg Campus-Community Orchestra, Director of the Central Washington University Music Preparatory Strings Program, and cello/conducting intern for the Marrowstone Music Festival. Mr. Walker has participated in some of the finest conducting workshops and music festivals across the United States such as the Marrowstone Music Festival, Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestral Musicians, various workshops sponsored by the Conductor’s Guild, Astoria Music Festival, Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop, and the University of Oregon Orchestral Conducting Institute. During the summer months since 2010, Mr. Walker works as a faculty member with the Youth Excellence on Stage/YES Academy in collaboration with American Voices, a US non-government, non-profit, cultural exchange organization. Through this organization, he has conducted, traveled, and taught in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. As an instrumentalist, Mr. Walker remains very active as a solo performer, educator, adjudicator, and orchestral cellist. He has appeared as soloist with the Marrowstone Music Festival Orchestra and the Belleville Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also held principal cello positions with the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Orchestra, Marrowstone Music Festival Orchestra, Central Washington University Symphony, Wenatchee Valley Symphony, and the Pierre Monteux School Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Mr. Walker won numerous competitions with Trio Giocoso and the DeKalb and Byron String Quartets. Currently, he is principal cellist to the Oregon East Symphony (Pendelton, Oregon), section cellist with the Walla Walla Symphony (Walla Walla, Washington), and is an on-call musician for the to the Mid-Columbia Symphony (Richland, Washington) and Yakima Symphony (Yakima, Washington).
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Matthew Wardell

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Member Bio MATTHEW WARDELL (b. 1983) is a conductor and teacher known for his quick wit, endearing presence in both pops and classical settings, and his incredible ability to bring joy and presence to any audience. His professional career as Music Director and Conductor of the Ocala Symphony Orchestra began in 2009. When Matthew was appointed Music Director of the Ocala Symphony Orchestra the Ocala Star Banner declared that, “Wardell brings an impressive resume of musical and conducting training … Maybe more important than his musical credentials is Wardell’s youthful enthusiasm and unabashed zest … Wardell is not only a daring and dynamic choice as the Ocala Symphony Orchestra’s new conductor, but a smart one.” On the stage, he has publicly performed nearly 400 works in over 250 live performances including core orchestral works from all periods, concerti for voice and nearly every instrument, extensive pops offerings, film and multi-media works, and the purposeful inclusion of underrepresented composers and pieces. From the pit, Maestro Wardell has led 16 staged productions of large-scale opera, musical theatre, and ballet works including La Boheme, Bartok’s Miraculous Mandarin, Cosi fan tutte, Sunday in the Park with George, Carmina Burana, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd. Matthew once conducted 2 performances of Puccini’s Tosca with only one day’s notice. The performances were hailed as “first-rate” and “inspiring.” His ability to step in at the last moment was described as a “magnificent feat … when the stakes were high, Mr. Wardell came through brilliantly and proved his mettle.” In addition to his success on the podium and in the orchestra pit, Matthew has been responsible for more than $7 million in private fundraising, over $3 million in grant acquisitions from the local to national level, and the creation and successive expansion of the Reilly Arts Center, a 30,000 square foot Ocala, FL performing arts facility that houses a 700-seat mainstage theatre, the NOMA black box, and the Ocala Symphony Community Music Conservatory. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Wardell received his Bachelor of Music cum laude (2007) at the University of North Florida working under Charlotte Mabrey. Wardell continued his education by earning Masters of Music (2010) and Doctor of Musical Arts (2022) degrees at the University of Florida under his mentor, Dr. Raymond Chobaz. Matthew spent five summers at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians in Hancock, Maine studying with renowned conducting teacher Michael Jinbo. Wardell has been fortunate to have been recognized as both an Osher and Quimby Family Foundation scholar. He is very proud to be part of the school’s long heritage of forming clear and dutiful conductors and considers Hancock a second home.
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Ms. Nan Washburn

Michigan Philharmonic
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Member Bio Winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Conducting, professional division 2013, The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music, professional division, 2016, and 19 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming from the League American Orchestras, Nan Washburn is one of the most innovative and dynamic conductors working in the U.S. today. For her engaging performances and fresh approach to concert programming, critics have hailed her work as having "perspicacity, nerve, imagination and all-round savvy." She just completed her 20th season as the Music Director of the Michigan Philharmonic. Under her leadership, the orchestra has experienced unprecedented growth in artistic excellence and in the scope and diversity of its programs throughout Southeast Michigan. National recognition for the orchestra during Washburn's tenure includes 6 ASCAP Awards, several prestigious grants from Knight Foundation and 2nd Place honors from The American Prize, professional orchestra division. From 2009-2017 she also served as the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for the Michigan Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, an ensemble that she founded in 2003. For five years she was the Artistic Director and Conductor of the West Hollywood Orchestra. She has also held the posts as Music Director of Orchestra Sonoma, the Camellia Symphony in Sacramento, Principal Conductor of the Channel Islands Symphony, the Acalanes Chamber Orchestra, the American Jazz Theater, and Director of the San Francisco State University Symphony Orchestra. She made her opera conducting debut in Los Angeles with the full production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel with the El Dorado Opera Company. Last year she returned to California to make her debut with the San Luis Obispo Symphony. In 2016, she was also appointed Music Director and Conductor of the National Women's Music Festival Orchestra which holds performances everyother year in Maddison, Wisconsin. For her pioneering work, Washburn has been featured on National Public Radio, in WESTWAYS MAGAZINE, COASTLINES MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO FOCUS MAGAZINE and the American Symphony Orchestra League's SYMPHONY MAGAZINE. She has worked with and performed works by many of the leading composers in the U.S. today, including Ned Rorem, Libby Larsen, Ellen Zwilich, Zhou Long, John Corigliano, Joan Tower, FRank Ticheli, Alvin Singleton, Chen Yi, Lou Harrison, Tobias Picker, Lowell Liebermann, Harold Farberman, Alice Gomez, Michael Daugherty, Jennifer Higdon, and Mary Watkins. Notable soloists include Sharon Robinson, Donald McInnes, Norman Fischer, Kaaren Erickson, Geraldine Walther, Judy Collins, Mark O'Conner, Mason Williams, Ann Hampton Callaway, Jason Graae, Bruce Vilanch, Jo Anne Worley, Blair Underwood, John Walz and Sharon Isbin.
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