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Caleb Wenzel

Grand Rapids Community College
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Member Bio Caleb Wenzel’s artistic life lives at the crossroads of performance disciplines and stylistic genres. Winner of the 2019 Respighi Prize in Conducting, Caleb's vibrant and infectious energy on the podium is equally at home with symphony orchestras, choral ensembles, experimental new music, historical instrument ensemble, opera, and musical theatre. With an active performance calendar that includes engagements as a conductor, pianist, composer, chamber musician, and music pedagogue, Caleb enjoys the rare profile of a complete musician. He currently serves as Director of Choral and Vocal Activities at Grand Rapids Community College. Committed to the music of living composers, Caleb serves as the Conducting Area Coordinator and as Principal Conductor of the American Creators Ensemble at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium at University of Oregon, a position he has held since 2016. He has guest conducted performances for the Chicago Latino Music Festival, American Bach Society, University of British Columbia Chamber Orchestra Festival, and Kammerphilharmonie Graz. In June 2019, Caleb made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting Chamber Orchestra of New York. He returns to CONY as the 2021/22 Apprentice Conductor, which will culminate in assisting CONY on their next recording project for NAXOS. A passionate music educator, Caleb has been involved in most major music education initiatives throughout Northern Indiana, serving as Music Director of the Elkhart County Youth Honors Orchestra and Conducting Fellow of the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra. As Director of Choirs at John Adams High School in South Bend, he supervised the School Corporation’s largest choral program. During his four-year tenure as Associate Conductor of Ensemble CONCEPT/21, he mentored young composers through EC/21’s New Voices in Michiana education initiative, often connecting student composers with some of the nation’s top professional composers and composition teachers. As a music education advocate, Caleb works to support music educators at all phases of professional experience in his role as Music Educators Program Director at the Conducting Institute of Caminos del Inka under the directorship of eminent conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. As a director of collegiate vocal ensembles, Caleb has made a substantial contribution to expanding the vibrant undergraduate vocal performance offerings at University of Notre Dame. There, he served as Music Director of Our Lady’s Consort, a highly selective undergraduate chamber choir, for three seasons. He also served as the founding Artistic Director of Gold & Blue Co., a vocal performance troupe performing a broad range of vocal genres including pop, rock, jazz, hip-hop, musical theatre, reggaetón, and folk music. Caleb contributed to Notre Dame’s new Musical Theatre minor as a staff music director for mainstage productions and as the piloting director of the Musical Theatre Vocal Lab.
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Ruth Wheeler

California Baptist University
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Member Bio Hailed by her audiences as “An outstanding, inspiring and passionate musician”, Mrs. Wheeler is the Concertmaster of Corona Symphony Orchestra and Founder of the California Baptist University Symphony Orchestra. She is known by striving for excellence in all what she does, making a difference among her peers but mostly among her students helping them and mentoring them as young musicians. Teaching younger generations is one of her passions and she demonstrates it in every opportunity. Her mentorship and leadership are remarkable in the lives of her students. She is firm but kind; sharing life lessons with them knowing that the work she does now is for her students' future. Her credentials are impressive. Her studies include the Manual Carra Professional Music Conservatory, in Malaga, Spain, Superior Conservatory of Music of Malaga, California Baptist University, The Juilliard School, NYC (Summers 2011, 2013, 2015,2017), and The New York Conducting Institute- Summers 2017 and 2018. Mrs. Wheeler currently is the Assistant Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Director of the University Choir and Orchestra; as well as one of the Violin Instructors at California Baptist University.
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Mr. William White

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Member Bio William C. White is a conductor, composer, teacher, writer, and performer based in Seattle, WA. Equally known for his original music as for his bold interpretations, Mr. White is an innovative programmer and conscientious leader in the musical community. Mr. White currently serves as music director of Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers, a unique performing ensemble comprised of a chorus and orchestra that concertize as one. For four seasons (2011-15) he served as Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, working closely with music director Louis Langrée and an array of guest artists, including John Adams, Philip Glass, Jennifer Higdon, and Itzhak Perlman. A noted pedagogue, he has led some of the nation’s finest youth orchestra programs, including Portland’s Metropolitan Youth Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. Mr. White has significant experience working with choirs and vocal soloists in a variety of contexts, from small a cappella ensembles to major symphonic and operatic choruses. He has long-standing associations with a number of musical organizations, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for whom he has regularly given pre-concert lectures since 2008. For three seasons, he was Music Director of Cincinnati’s Seven Hills Sinfonietta, a period which saw remarkable growth for the organization as a whole. Mr. White maintains a significant career as a composer of music for the concert stage, theater, cinema, church, radio, and film. His music has been performed throughout North America as well as in Asia and Europe. His output includes a symphony, an oratorio, chamber music of all varieties, and several works intended for young audiences. His music has been recorded on the MSR Classics and Cedille Record labels. Mr. White earned a masters degree in Conducting from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, studying symphonic and operatic repertoire with David Effron and Arthur Fagen. He received a BA in Music from the University of Chicago, where his principal teachers were the composer Easley Blackwood and the conductor Barbara Schubert. In 2004, he began attending the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors under the tutelage of Michael Jinbo, later serving as the school’s Conducting Associate, then as its Composer-in-Residence. Mr. White hails from Bethesda, MD, where he began his musical training as a violist. He is active as a clinician, arranger, and guest conductor, particularly of his own works. His orchestral arrangements, including “Happy”, “Dear Theodosia”, and an orchestral suite from Sweeney Todd have been performed by orchestras throughout the United States. In 2015, Mr. White launched a YouTube series called “Ask a Maestro” where he answers questions about the world of classical music. Recordings of his works can be heard at his web site, www.willcwhite.com, where he also maintains a blog and publishing business.
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Julie Whiting

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Member Bio Julie is a Brisbane-based conductor, vocal coach and musician. Since 2005 Julie has been highly sought after as a Musical Director, and has worked extensively across Southeast Queensland on seasons of more than seventy-five productions. She has been a pit musician for shows across Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast. Julie’s career highlights to-date include performing in the band for Dad’s Army with Jon English (2004), and in the orchestra for Sweeney Todd with Rob Guest (2007). In 2011, Julie was selected to attend the multiple-Tony® award-winning Goodspeed Musical Institute in the USA to study Music Direction. As a performer, Julie has appeared with many ensembles, including the Queensland Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony and the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra. Julie runs her own musical theatre company, Blue Fish Theatrical, which produced the widely-acclaimed Brisbane revival of Chicago in 2012. In that same year, she was nominated for a Greenroom Groundling Award for Outstanding Contribution to Queensland Theatre.
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Kyle Wiley Pickett

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Member Bio Kyle Wiley Pickett has established himself as a triple-threat music director: a talented and visionary musician who has earned the respect of players, soloists, boards, and audiences, a charismatic cultural leader in the communities he serves, and an ambitious fund-raiser with an impressive track record of orchestra building. In 2013, Kyle Wiley Pickett won two conductor searches in a row when he was selected as the new Music Director and Conductor for both the Topeka Symphony Orchestra (KS) and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MO). Since taking these two jobs, Pickett has led both orchestras in unprecedented growth: The SSO has broken its single ticket sales record every year for the last four years, and the TSO is in its second year in a row running a budget surplus. Pickett works extensively with marketing and outreach in both orchestras to develop creative and eye-catching marketing campaigns and season programming designed to raise the profile of the orchestras in the communities and attract new audiences to the concerts. From more conventional approaches like Rotary and TED Talks to television commercials in which Pickett waterskis, scuba dives, and scales the local climbing wall in his tuxedo, Pickett is always seeking to connect his community and the orchestra and to make sure the orchestra delivers outstanding and exciting concerts for its audiences.
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Eddie Wilkin

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Mr. Christopher Wilkins

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Member Bio Born in Boston, Christopher Wilkins earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard (1978), where he was music director of the Bach Society Orchestra. As an oboist, he performed with the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra at Tanglewood and with the Boston Philharmonic under Benjamin Zander. In 1979–80 he attended the Hochschule der Künste in West Berlin as a recipient of the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, awarded by the Harvard Music Department. He studied at Yale University with Otto-Werner Mueller, receiving his Master of Music degree in 1981. He was assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1983 to 1986, and from 1986 to 1989 he served as associate conductor of the Utah Symphony, assisting his former teacher Joseph Silverstein. From 1989 to 1996 he was music director of the Colorado Springs Symphony, serving in later seasons as music advisor. He served for eleven years as music director of the San Antonio Symphony, and was named resident conductor of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas by Plácido Domingo during its inaugural season. As a guest conductor, Wilkins has appeared with many of the leading American orchestras, including those of Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, Detroit, and Cincinnati. He has also appeared with orchestras throughout Latin America and in Germany, Russia, Spain, and New Zealand. In 1992 Wilkins won the Seaver/NEA Award, designed to identify exceptionally talented American conductors early in their careers. Currently, Wilkins is music director of the Akron Symphony, and also of the Orlando Philharmonic and Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
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Dr. Julius Williams

Berklee College of Music
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Member Bio Maestro Julius P. Williams is an award-winning conductor, composer, recording artist, educator, author and pianist. His career has taken him from his native New York to musical venues around the globe, and has involved virtually every musical genre. A prolific composer, Maestro Williams has created dozens of works for every genre of contemporary classical performance, including opera, ballet, orchestra, chamber ensemble, chorus and solo voice, dance, musical theatre and film. Maestro Williams’ Carnegie Hall conducting debut was with the “Symphony Saint Paulia” Inaugural concerts. Additionally, his music has been performed by countless symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles around the globe including the premiere of his “Norman Overture” by Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic. Mr. Williams is Professor of Composition, Berklee College of Music, Artistic director/Conductor Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra (Boston) and conductor of Trilogy Opera in Newark, NJ., and has guest conducted numerous orchestras, both in the US and abroad.
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Dr. Shane Williams

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Member Bio Maestro Wm. Shane Williams is celebrating his 18th season as Conductor of the St. Charles County Youth Orchestras. He is a charismatic and versatile conductor, versed in wide gamut of musical styles, carrying a vision to Make Music Come Alive for All playing under his baton. Under his direction, the Symphony was honored to perform at the Missouri Music Educators Convention in January of 2016. His skills and gifting have allowed him conducting opportunities in the United States and abroad: the Zapadocesky Symphony Orchestra of the Czech Republic, the St. Louis Philharmonic, the Illinois Symphony, the Kirkwood Symphony, the Alton Symphony, the University City Orchestra, and the Gateway Chamber Orchestra , to name a few. Maestro Williams has had the privilege of working with Grammy Award winning violinist Mark O'Connor. Shane is a regular guest conductor, performer, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the region. His previous conducting posts include the Alton Summer Chamber Series, the Young People's Concert Orchestra at the Webster Community Music School, the Sangamon Valley Youth Symphony, Pops Conductor of the Alton Symphony and Resident Conductor of the Award-winning St. Louis Brass Band. As a professional musician, Maestro Williams has performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (noted performances at Carnegie Hall), Opera Theater St. Louis, the Illinois Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, Winter Opera St. Louis, the Joffrey Ballet, Ice Capades, Moody Blues, the Elvis Show, Opryland USA , Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, Burt Bacharach, Roger Williams, Dionne Warwick, Tommy Tune, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith and many others. Maestro Williams serves on the music faculty at Missouri Baptist University where he teaches conducting and oversees the instrumental programs. As an educator, Mr. Williams has taught public, private, and homeschool. In 2002, he founded the SCCYO Summer String and Woodwind Workshops and Audition Preparation Workshops (APW). As well, he has previously served on the music faculty of the Masterworks Music Festival for many years. Maestro Williams holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Austin Peay State University, a Master of Percussion Performance from the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music degree in Conducting from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has completed doctoral studies at Lindenwood University.
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Channan P P Willner Channan Willner New York Public Library

New York Public Library
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