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Emily Waters

Curtis Institute of Music
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Mr. John Watkins Jr.

University of Florida
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Member Bio Mr. John M. “Jay” Watkins, Jr. serves the Gator Nation as the Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Assistant Professor in the School of Music and as the Director of the “Pride of the Sunshine” - The Gator Marching Band. Prior to his appointment at UF, he served as Assistant to the Director of Bands, Assistant Director of the Longhorn Band, and Conductor of the Longhorn Basketball, Volleyball and Concert Bands at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was the principle guest conductor of the Symphony Band and the show designer for the Longhorn Band. In the past, ensembles under his direction have performed and recorded with over 36 Grammy-award winning artists in a program he developed to integrate the academic, athletics and live music communities of Central Texas. Prior to his appointment at Texas, he served as the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at Charleston Southern University (SC), where he was also the Coordinator of Instrumental Music Education. Mr. Watkins has received recognition as the CSU Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year and as a recipient of the National Band Association’s “Citation of Excellence”, and was the founder, Music Director and Conductor of The Lowcountry Winds, a professional wind ensemble based in Charleston, SC. He has also served as the Director of the U.S. Navy Drum & Bugle Corps and the Director of Instrumental Music at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and as a teacher in the public schools in North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia. Prior to his work in music education, he worked for the US Naval Research Laboratory as a research associate in the areas of liquid fuel propellants and their stability and published over 75 articles in refereed science journals. Mr. Watkins is a native of Falls Church, VA and earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Music Education degrees from George Mason University and Valdosta State University. He holds professional memberships in numerous organizations, served as South Carolina State Chair and Southern Division Chair for the National Band Association, and is an elected member of Phi Beta Mu, the International Bandmaster’s Fraternity. Mr. Watkins remains very active as a designer, clinician and adjudicator throughout the country. He is married to the former Natalie Kay McLain of Duncan, SC; they have one son, Jacob.
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Carolyn Watson

University of Illinois
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Member Bio Carolyn Watson is Principal Guest Conductor of the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and has recently completed her first season as Music Director of the La Porte County Symphony Orchestra in Indiana. Originally from Australia, she has been based in the United States since 2013 during which time she has led performances with the Austin Symphony, Catskill Symphony, Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, Interlochen Philharmonic, Kansas City Ballet, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, St. Joseph Symphony and World Youth Symphony Orchestra. Recruited internationally as Music Director of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, she won the 2015 American Prize for Orchestral Performance with this ensemble, also collaborating with soloists including Mark O’Connor and Alexandre Tharaud during her tenure. Carolyn enjoys an ongoing association with Interlochen as conducting faculty at Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen College of Creative Arts and for Interlochen Online. An experienced conductor of opera, recent engagements have seen Carolyn lead Hansel and Gretel for Amarillo Opera and Fellow Travelers at Des Moines Metro Opera, along with a production of As One. In 2020 she conducted ‘And Still we Dream’ for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, her third engagement for the Lyric in as many years. This production was featured in the Emmy-Award winning PBS documentary, Higher Octaves: Leading Women in the Arts. In 2019 she was engaged to conduct the world premiere of Gordon Getty’s opera at Festival Napa Valley, and in 2017 Carolyn was one of six conductors selected for the Hart Institute for Women Conductors, where she led the Dallas Opera in two public performances. Carolyn’s 22-23 season sees debuts with the Cape Symphony, Monash Academy Orchestra (Australia), Traverse Symphony Orchestra and Columbus Indiana Philharmonic as a Music Director candidate, as well as return engagements with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Kansas City Ballet. A major prizewinner at the 2012 Emmerich Kálmán International Operetta Conducting Competition in Budapest, notable European credits include Infektion!, a festival of modern theatre celebrating the works of John Cage at the Staatsoper Berlin, conducting musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic in Interaktion, a residency at the Israeli National Opera, and assisting Sir Charles Mackerras on his final two productions at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Glyndebourne. Additional international conducting credits include the Brandenburger Symphoniker, BBC Concert Orchestra, Budapest Operetta Theatre, Bulgarian State Opera Bourgas, Duna Szimfonikus Budapest, North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Kammerphilharmonie Graz, Kodály Philharmonia Debrecen, Mihail Jora Philharmonic Romania, Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and in Russia, the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic. In Australia she has worked with the Darwin Symphony, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Tasmania Discovery Orchestra
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David Webb

Roanoke Youth Symphony Orchestra & Jefferson Forest High School
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Member Bio David Webb has been Director of Bands at Jefferson Forest High School in Forest, VA since 1998, and Conductor and Music Director of the Roanoke Youth Symphony Orchestra since 2021. Prior to taking his current position at Jefferson Forest, Mr. Webb taught at Linkhorne Middle School in Lynchburg, VA (1992-98), and at Marion County High School & Jasper Middle School in Jasper, TN (1990-92). Under Mr. Webb’s direction, the Jefferson Forest High School Bands have been recognized for outstanding performance in all areas, including consistent “Superior” ratings earned by the concert and marching bands, and recognition as a Virginia Honor Band & VA Music Educators Association “Blue Ribbon School”. The award-winning Cavalier Marching Band has performed in the Lord Mayor of Westminster’s New Year’s Day Parade, London, three times—January 1st of 2002, 2006, & 2012, and performed in the Cabalgata de Reyes (Parade of the Kings) on January 5, 2016 in Madrid, Spain. The Jefferson Forest High School Wind Symphony has won numerous awards at festivals and competitions throughout the eastern United States and performed at the Virginia Music Educators Association Conference in 2005, 2010 & 2018, and at the Music For All National Festival in Indianapolis, IN in 2012 and 2018. Mr. Webb has served as a clinician and adjudicator in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and England. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in Education with certification in Instrumental Music and holds a Master’s of Music Education from George Mason University (2022). Mr. Webb is the 2013 Bedford County Public Schools and Commonwealth of Virginia Region 5 “Teacher of the Year”, and was elected a BandWorld Legion of Honor Laureate by the John Philip Sousa Foundation in 2013. He is a Past-President of the Virginia Band & Orchestra Directors’ Association (VBODA) and currently serves on that body’s Executive Board. His professional affiliations include Virginia Music Educators’ Association, VBODA, National Association for Music Education, National Band Association, American School Band Directors’ Association, International Conductors Guild, and Phi Beta Mu International Band Fraternity. Mr. Webb and his wife Karen live in Forest, VA. They have two adult daughters—Audrey, Charlotte, NC, and Olivia, a senior at Syracuse University.
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Troy Webdell

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Member Bio American born and trained, Maestro Troy Webdell continues to enthrall audiences with his ability to connect people through his eloquent conducting and the language of music. His innovative programming and balance between contemporary music, world music, and the standard orchestral repertoire has created a welcomed niche in the world of classical music.   Webdell's interest in classical music and culture has impelled him to travel the world, including conducting orchestral concerts throughout China in renown concert halls in over 40 major cities where his interpretations of the Chinese classical music repertoire have been received with critical acclaim. In 2015, Webdell was awarded the “Global Harmony Through Music” award from the Confucius Institute (Beijing) for his work and dedication to create cultural understanding and acceptance through music. In 2018, Webdell was invited to conduct the inaugural concert at the grand opening of the Ulanhot Grand Theatre in Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia. His orchestral concerts have been nationally televised and broadcast on CCTV throughout China and on PBS in the USA. As a seasoned opera, musical theater, and ballet conductor, Maestro Webdell has conducted numerous large-scale productions and received outstanding orchestral direction awards for staged and concert productions of Stephen Sondheim’s  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2001 & 2004), Jason Robert Brown’s PARADE (2005), Mitch Leigh’s Man of La Mancha (2006), Rhapsody in Swing (2012), and the world premiere run of Max Lee’s modern interpretation of the Chinese classic opera Romance of the Western Chamber (2013) which was completely sung and spoken in Mandarin Chinese. As a Music Educator for over 30 years, Webdell has taught and conducted all levels of instrumental musicians from beginning to professional. Most recently, he was the Director of Orchestras at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and continues his role in music education as the conductor of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth Orchestras. Under his leadership, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth Orchestras have become the premiere orchestral experience for young musicians in Northern Indiana.
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Phillipp Weber

Schott Music
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Dr. Michael Webster

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Member Bio Clarinetist Michael Webster is Professor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of the Houston Youth Symphony, which has won 12 national awards between 2008 and 2013 and appeared on the nationally distributed NPR program, “From the Top” in Sept. 2012. Described by the Boston Globe as “a virtuoso of burgeoning prominence,” Webster has collaborated with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Tokyo, Cleveland, Muir, Ying, Leontóvych, Dover, and Chester String Quartets and artists such as Yo Yo Ma and Joshua Bell among many others. He has been associated with many of North America’s finest festivals, including Marlboro, Santa Fe, Chamber Music West and Northwest, Norfolk, Angel Fire, Steamboat Springs, Sitka, Park City, Skaneateles, Maui, Bowdoin, La Musica di Asola, Stratford (Ontario), Victoria (BC), and Domaine Forget (Quebec). As a soloist he has appeared with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra with Aaron Copland and the Boston Pops with John Williams; for many years he was Aaron Copland’s favorite interpreter of his Clarinet Concerto. Webster’s recital career began at Town Hall in 1968 with his eminent father, Beveridge Webster, as pianist. That same year he won Young Concert Artists’ International Competition and became Principal Clarinetist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then he has performed in all of New York City’s major halls, across the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. He has appeared as guest artist with the 92nd Street “Y”, Da Camera of Houston, Musiqa, and Context. High Fidelity/Musical America placed his CRI recording of American clarinet music on its Best Recordings list and Artists International selected him for its Distinguished Artist Award. Webster has served as Acting Principal Clarinetist of the San Francisco Symphony, Music Director of the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, Founder and Music Director of Chamber Music Ann Arbor, and Associate Professor of Clarinet at the Eastman School of Music, from which he earned three degrees as a student of Stanley Hasty. In 1988 he became a member of the conducting faculty at the New England Conservatory and taught clarinet both there and at Boston University. He has also taught at the San Francisco Conservatory, the Yale Summer School at Norfolk, Aria International Academy, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Johannesen International School of the Arts, the Bowdoin Festival, and the Texas Music Festival. Webster was Music Director of the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Asian Youth Orchestra under Yehudi Menuhin, and guest conductor of several Boston-area orchestras before joining the University of Michigan faculty as Adjunct Professor of Conducting and Director of the Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1993.
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Mica Weiland

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Rotem Weinberg

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Member Bio Israeli conductor Rotem Weinberg is known for his profound musicality and diverse musical approach. He is a cross-genre musician, at home in classical, operatic, and pops repertoires alike. Rotem began his conducting studies at the age of seventeen, under the guidance of Vag Papian. Before starting his חחacademic studies, he served in the Israel Defense Forces military band as head librarian and assistant conductor. He earned a BM in orchestral conducting from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music of Tel-Aviv University, where he studied with Prof. Yoav Talmi, Yi-an Xu, and Ronen Borshevsky. His graduate studies took him to The University of Michigan, where he earned both MM and DMA degrees in orchestral conducting, studying with the renowned conductor and pedagogue Kenneth Kiesler. At the University of Michigan, Rotem served as Music Director of the Campus Symphony Orchestra and the Michigan Pops Orchestra, bringing these ensembles to new musical heights. He also filled the role of assistant conductor to the prestigious orchestra program, supporting the work of four student orchestras. As cover conductor of the University of Michigan Opera Theater, he conducted operas such as Puccini’s La bohème, Handel’s Alcina, and William Bolcom’s Dinner at Eight. In February 2018 he served as the first assistant conductor for the ground-breaking test performance of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess’ new critical edition. Rotem participated in workshops and masterclasses with world renowned orchestral conductors, including Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Zsolt Nagy and Christopher Lyndon Gee. He participated in additional conducting workshops with Joseph Missal, Felix Hauswirth, and Laszlo Marosi. In his native Israel, Rotem led many orchestral, wind, and vocal ensembles, achieving national acclaim as a conductor and educator. He received many honors and awards for his conducting and musicianship, including the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Excellence Grant in orchestral conducting (2014, 2015), the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Excellence Scholarship (2011-2014), and the Tel Aviv University Dean of Arts Excellence Award (2011, 2012) for his outstanding musical and academic achievements. An advocate of contemporary music, Rotem has collaborated with many composers. He has premiered works by Natalie Moller, Tyler Arnold, Nina Shekhar, Sawyer Denton, and Samuel Sussman.
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Joseph Weinberger

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