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Paul Bhasin

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Member Bio Dr. Paul Bhasin serves as Director of Orchestral Studies at Emory University. In this capacity, he conducts the Emory University Symphony Orchestra, Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra, and teaches conducting. Praised for his “crisp, clear” conducting and “highly expressive” interpretations, Bhasin’s career began when he won the Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition in 1998. He has led a variety of university, academic, and professional ensembles throughout North America and abroad including recent performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and throughout the People’s Republic of China. Bhasin’s most recent guest engagements include appearances with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra (including live radio broadcasts of subscription concerts), American Youth Philharmonic, Williamsburg Symphony, New Jersey Youth Symphony, and at Interlochen Arts Academy. He has also led performances as a guest conductor with members of the Richmond Symphony, National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra. Ensembles under his direction have collaborated with soloists from the San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and Richmond Symphony. He has led honor orchestras and bands (including at the All-State level) and served as a guest orchestral clinician throughout the United States, and presented at national conferences including the Midwest Orchestra Clinic and the National Music Teachers Association Conference. ARRANGEMENTS Bhasin’s transcriptions and arrangements are published by Balquhidder Music and have been performed and commissioned in the US and abroad by the St. Louis Opera Theater, Grand Tetons Festival Orchestra, La Unió Musical l’Horta de Sant Marcel·lí (Valencia, Spain) and the Washington Symphonic Brass (DC). In 2015, Bhasin composed and conducted the orchestral score to 9:23 Films’ motion picture, Hogtown (award winner at the Berlin, Los Angeles and Nashville International Black Film Festivals, and Cannes Festival Marché du Film). Michael Phillips of the Chicago Sun-Times writes that the film was “...scored beautifully by composer Paul Bhasin...better than the entirety of the last few features I’ve seen, period.” In 2016, reviewer Ben Kenigsberg of the New York Times named the film a “Critic’s Pick” and one of the “Top 10 Films of 2016.” Bhasin’s previous appointments include positions at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Triton College, and The College of William & Mary. He received his musical education from Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has served as Music Director & Conductor of the Williamsburg Youth Orchestras and has led honor orchestras and bands (including at the All-State level) and served as a guest orchestral clinician throughout the United States, and presented at national conferences including the Midwest Orchestra Clinic and the National Music Teachers Association Conference. CHAMBER MUSIC An avid proponent of chamber music,
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Karen Ní Bhroin

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Member Bio Karen Ní Bhroin, whose career on both sides of the Atlantic is attracting attention wherever she conducts, is one of Ireland’s leading young conductors. This season Karen has made debuts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, BBC Philharmonic, first engagements with The Ulster Orchestra Belfast, Orchestre Métropolitan Québec and a return to the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Other recent highlights include concerts with Grand Rapids Symphony (Michigan), and engagement with Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, and the premiere of Mark Lanz Weiser’s Opera, Galaxies in Her eyes, (High Point, North Carolina). This autumn she launched her new podcast, And Other Duties, The Life of the Assistant Conductor. Telling the stories of assistant conductors over the world and what it is they really do. Karen starts 2023 off performing with West of England Youth Orchestra, later on in the season she will work with Chetham’s School of Music Symphony Orchestra. Having trained at home in Ireland as Conductor in Training from 2016-2018, Karen worked closely with the National Symphony Orchestra and National Philharmonic Choir. She subsequently moved to the USA, where held the position of Assistant Conductor of North Carolina’s Winston-Salem Symphony, Music Director of the Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras Program and Associate Conductor and Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts from 2020-2022. In 2017 Karen made her debut with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, in 2019 she was appointed Assistant Director of the Akron Symphony Chorus, Ohio and in 2020 made her debut with the Akron Symphony Orchestra. Assisting some of the best conductors in the world today, Karen has worked closely with JoAnn Falletta, Nathalie Stutzmann and Thomas Wilkins. She has also been mentored by Marin Alsop, Timothy Redmond and Neil Thomson. Karen has worked as Assistant Conductor at National Music Festival USA with conductor Richard Rosenberg (2019), attended Dartington International Summer School Advanced Conducting programme (2019) and was a Britten-Pears Young Artist at Snape Maltings, UK (2018). During 2021, Karen was part of the inaugural conducting academy at National Orchestral Institute, where she was a fellow with Marin Alsop. During 2022, Ní Bhroin received an artists bursary for a French language residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. A music education graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she earned her Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting at Kent State University, Ohio, where she studied with Dr. Jungho Kim as his Graduate Assistant Conductor.
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Tom Bickley Tom Bickley California State University East Bay

California State University East Bay
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Dr. Anna Binneweg

Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, Naptown Philharmonic Orchestra, AACC Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio As the Music Director/Conductor of the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra, the AACC Symphony Orchestra (Annapolis, MD) and a frequent guest conductor on the national and international scene, Binneweg repeatedly captures audiences with her enthusiasm and passion for music. Putting her musicians, and not herself in the spotlight, Binneweg brings out the best in them. Her orchestras’ shared excitement makes classical music sound new and fresh. Her programs and performance are alluring, engaging and attract audiences of all ages, particularly making classical repertoire more appealing to younger audiences. Over the course of her career, Dr. Binneweg has performed in some of the nation’s most reputable concert venues including the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C., the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and made her European conducting debut in Lviv, Ukraine in 2012. A committed music educator, Dr. Binneweg’s youth orchestra experiences include appointments with the Houston Youth Symphony (Houston, TX) and the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony (San Luis Obispo, CA), in addition to her guest conducting appearances with colleges and universities throughout the United States. She is in frequent demand as an orchestra clinician and adjudicator throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, and served on the national executive board of directors for the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) from 2014-2018. She has worked with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Daniel Barenboim, Robert Spano, James Paul, Michael Morgan, Duaine Wolfe, Nurhan Arman and David Effron through various engagements sponsored by the League of American Orchestras, the Conductors Guild, the Conductors Institute of New York and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Earning a doctorate degree of music in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University where she studied with Victor Yampolsky, she has also served on the conducting faculties at Loyola University (Chicago, IL), the Sherwood Conservatory of Music (Chicago, IL), and American University (Washington, DC). Like all conductors, Maestra Binneweg is not only the most visible part of the orchestra, but the advocate and face of the ensembles she leads. As an active conductor of the 2019-2020 season, she is busy conducting approximately 30 performances this year!
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Mr. Christopher Blair

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Member Bio Christopher Blair is a Partner at AKUSTIKS, based in Norwalk Connecticut where he specializes in the acoustic design of concert halls, opera houses, and theaters. Current or recently completed projects include the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, home of the Nashville Symphony, the Juliet Rosch Recital Hall for SUNY-Fredonia, new additions to the Cleveland Institute of Music, renovations to the Boston Opera House, renovations and additions at the Eastman School of Music, as well as major projects in the USA, Mexico, Canada, Thailand, Columbia, Chile, and Brazil. Some of his important projects prior to his work at AKUSTIKS include Singapore’s Esplanade Performing Arts Centre, Lucerne’s Cultural and Congress Centre, the City of Culture in Galicia, Spain, and Brazil’s famous Sala São Paulo. Following undergraduate studies at the University of Vermont, Mr. Blair earned Masters degrees in Orchestral Conducting from the New England Conservatory and Acoustics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Early professional conducting appointments included the Music Directorships of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Boston, the South End Symphony and Choral Society, the Melrose (MA) Symphony Orchestra, the Brown University Orchestra (where he was also Chairman of the String Program), and the position of Artistic Director of the Boston Light Opera. In recent years Blair has appeared in concert with the Bolivian National Orchestra, the Porto Alegre (Brazil) Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the Tianjin (China) Symphony Orchestra, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, the Vidin (Bulgaria) Philharmonic, and the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. In the course of his acoustical consulting activities he has also led rehearsals of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
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Frederick Blanchard

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Niclas Blixt

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Member Bio Niclas Blixt holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Music Education (University College of Music in Örebro) and a Masters Degree in Orchestral and Choral Conducting (Luleå University). Besides professor Petter Sundkvist and professor Erik Westerberg, Niclas studied with Siegfried Naumann in Malmö, Stig Westerberg in Stockholm and Jorma Panula at the legendary Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He also studied music psychology and musicology at Uppsala University and music education at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. He has participated in many conducting programs and workshops over the world, for example École Normale de Musique (interpretation and score study) in Paris, The Wind Band Conducting Workshop (conducting) in Columbus, and The Juilliard School (conducting) in New York. The lack of opportunities for Swedish conductors in the late 90s, forced him to found his own chamber orchestra - Uppsala Sinfonietta. A successful first season along with good recordings, opened up possibilities for launching a freelance career with support from maestro Herbert Blomstedt. The Royal Swedish Music Academy awarded him two prestigious conducting scholarships, 2016 on merits and 2017 after an audition with one of Swedens foremost symphony orchestras. Today he holds three positions in the capital area of Sweden - as Chief conductor for Pro Musica Symphony Orchestra, Music Director for Södertälje Symphony Orchestra and Conductor for Stockholm Wind Ensemble. A passion for conducting, inspirational leadership and dedication to teaching defines his career and an infectious spirit of adventure and the belief that music exists in everyone is the trademarks of Niclas musicianship. His main focus is conducting, but he is also devoted to composing, arranging, teaching, music research and performing chamber music. Niclas Blixt has a broad knowledge of genres and conducts Brahms, along with Ellington with the same energy and passion. Musicals, other popular music and crossover projects involving music from other parts of the world is also a part of his repertoire. He is a dedicated member of both The Swedish and the International Conductors Guild.
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Chris Blount

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Mr. Ernst Bluemner

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Member Bio Concertmaster Ernst Blümner knows what he's talking about: Since the 1980s, the full-time doctor plays in the ensemble.
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Adam Bodony

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Member Bio Adam M. Bodony is currently serving as Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestras at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana where he directs the Philharmonic, Symphony, and Concert Orchestras in addition to overseeing the department’s applied music program. Since Professor Bodony’s arrival at Purdue University in 2015, orchestra enrollment has nearly doubled, creating the need for an additional two orchestras. Under Professor Bodony’s direction, the Purdue Philharmonic Orchestra was named Winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance (college/university division) in 2021 and Runner-Up in 2023. Also in 2021, Professor Bodony was named Runner-Up by The American Prize in Orchestral Conducting (college/university division). Professor Bodony is also currently serving as Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra, Indiana’s premiere youth orchestra organization and recently named Winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance (youth orchestra division) in 2023. Comprised of approximately 200 young musicians from across the state of Indiana and based at the Hilbert Circle Theatre, the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra has performed at Carnegie Hall (2016, 2019, 2022), Orchestra Hall in Chicago (2017), and the Music For All National Festival (2018) under Professor Bodony’s direction. As an avid supporter of music education, Professor Bodony serves as the National Festival Orchestra Coordinator and Educational Consultant for Music For All, a national organization based in Indianapolis dedicated to the advocacy of music education for all people. Professor Bodony’s previous posts include Artistic Director of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (2014-2016), Associate Conductor of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra (2013-2015), Artistic Director of the Wabash Valley Youth Symphony (2019-2022) and Cover Conductor and Pre-Concert Lecturer for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (2014-2015). He has also worked with several professional, collegiate, high school, and community ensembles throughout the world. Professor Bodony earned a bachelor’s degree in both religious studies and trombone performance from DePauw University in 2008. He later received a master’s degree in trombone performance from Indiana University in 2011, where his primary teachers were Jim Beckel and Carl Lenthe, respectively. Professor Bodony also pursued conducting studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (Russia) and Indiana University. His primary conducting teachers include Arthur Fagen, Leonid Korchmar, and Kirk Trevor. As a trombonist, Professor Bodony has frequently performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and can be heard playing 2nd trombone on two album releases under the Telarc (2012) and Steinway (2014) labels, conducted by Krzysztof Urbański and Jun Märkl, respectively. In 2024, Professor Bodony was named a “40 Under 40” Music Educator by the Yamaha Music Corporation, and in 2013 he was honored with the Beckmann Emerging Artist Award given by the Arts Council of Indianapolis to a young professional with exceptional talent and promise in a given field.
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