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Mr. Gordon Johnson
Great Falls Symphony
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Member Bio During his thirty-five year tenure as conductor of the Great Falls Symphony, Gordon Johnson has been known for his energetic performances and dynamic leadership. In addition to his responsibilities in Great Falls, Maestro Johnson continues to maintain a busy schedule having guest conducting engagements with orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, England, Japan, Germany and France. In February 2009 Johnson was invited by the United States State Department to conduct an American music program with the National Philharmonic of Moldova.Johnson has served as the music director of the Glacier Symphony (MT) from 1982 to 1997 and later of the Mesa Symphony (AZ) from 1997 to 2005. He served as the director of orchestras at the Red Lodge Music Festival (MT) from 2006 to 2011. Gordon Johnson has been recognized by the League of American Orchestras, the American Society of Composers, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Carnegie Hall Foundation for his contribution to the musical arts. The State of Minnesota conferred a special commendation to Johnson, on behalf of its citizens, for recognition of his contributions. Johnson was award the Governor’s Award for the Arts by Montana Governor Steve Bullock at a ceremony at the State Capitol in Helena in 2016. In addition to the Great Falls Symphony he is conductor emeritus of the Great Falls Youth Orchestra where he was directly involved in the training future generations of orchestral musicians. He is past President of the Military Affairs Committee and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors. In 2012 he was awarded the Distinguished Patriot Medal by the Department of Military Affairs Adjutant General of the State of Montana. During his many years of concertizing Johnson has served as accompanist to many superb musicians including world renowned artists Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Sir James Galway, Evelyn Glennie and Joshua Bell. He has collaborated in concert with many of America’s most popular artists including Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, Trisha Yearwood, Kansas, America, Lee Ann Rimes and Charlie Daniels. Maestro Johnson has been invited to serve on adjudication panels at Arizona State University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Montana, University of Oregon, Northwestern University and the Conservatoire Cesar Geoffray, Toulon, France. Gordon J. Johnson is past president of the Conductors Guild, an organization dedicated exclusively to the advancement of the art of conducting and to the artistic and professional needs of conductors.
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Albert C Johnston III
Monex
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Member Bio BORN: December 19, 1925 Boston, MA DECEASED: July 2, 2014 Ewa Beach, Hawaii USA EDUCATION: Northfield Mount Hermon Schools FKA Mount Hermon School for Boys-Graduate 1943 Dartmouth, University of Southern California (USC) Graduated University of New Hampshire-1949 Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory and Composition Studied under Robert W. Manton a student of Vincent d’Indy Princeton Graduate School-Attended Studied composition under the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu MEMBERSHIPS American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Songwriters Guild of America (S.G.A.) since 1952 MOTION PICTURE COMPOSITIONS Lost Boundaries-1949 Composed two scores featured in a major motion picture. “Tanganyika”-A two piano rhythmical composition composed and played by Albert C. Johnston, Jr. and coauthored by H. Elwin Taylor (deceased). Published by Mills Music, ASCAP New York. “Guess I’m Through with Love” Popular song, lyrics and music by Albert C. Johnston, Jr. Published by Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) New York PIANO COMPOSITIONS “Scherzo”-F minor (1949) performed by Dr. Richard Carpenter-Sacramento State College 1959 at Crocker Art Museum. Other piano compositions include: Elegie Rhapsody D flat major (Bermuda Rhapsody) Nocturne G minor Nocturne D flat major Jamaica Rock Mysterious Prelude Boogliero Tango d’Amor (piano transcription) South of the Equator The Wedding Bells of Puerto Vallarta (tango) “Gabi” 1961 Vocalized for dramatic soprano and piano. Performed by Dr. Corbelita Astraquillo of the Philippines at Watsonville, California USA Piano compositions, cont’d. Solitude Nocturne in G minor Logical Dissonance (Ghost House) Nocturne in E major PUBLISHED SONGS “Autumn Has Come and Gone” Music and lyrics by Albert C. Johnston, Jr. “Taj Mahal” Music by Albert C. Johnston, Jr. and lyrics by Leon Rene (deceased) Both of these compositions were recorded by Jerry Wallace on Mercury Records in 1955. “God Gave Us Christmas” Music and lyrics by Albert C. Johnston, Jr. and Leon Rene. Performed by 144 voice Kamehameha Schools Concert Glee Club, Honolulu, Hawaii. Televised broadcast of composition shown throughout the state of Hawaii in 1982. Published by Leon Rene Publications (ASCAP) “It’s My Life” Music and lyrics by Albert C. Johnston, Jr. and Richard Crew (deceased) “Suez Canal” “Dig That Crazy Santa Claus” Music and lyrics by Albert C. Johnston, Jr., Leon Rene and Rafael “Googie” Rene (deceased). Recorded on Mercury Records by Ralph Marterie 1954. Recorded on Modern Records by Oscar McLollie 1954. Recorded by The Brian Setzer Orchestra-Surfdog Records 2005 75 other songs written and copyrighted between 1945 and 1998, including ballads, country & western, Gospel, Latin and novelty. ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITIONS “Tango d’Amor” Performed by San Diego Jewish Community Center Orchestra.
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Alisa Jones
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Member Bio Mrs. Jones has a Bachelor of Arts Music and Post Graduate Diploma of Education and has been employed by Education Queensland for the past 20 years. Mrs. Jones has developed a reputation as a conductor and has been a director of the Griffith University Young Conservatorium – Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the associate director of the Queensland State Youth Wind Orchestra, and guest conductor of the Percy Grainger Orchestra at the Queensland Conservatorium State Honours Ensemble Program, both in North Queensland and in Brisbane. She has also been a guest conductor at the Musical Outstanding Student Program (MOST). Mrs. Jones has also lectured in orchestral conducting at Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium and is kept busy as a guest conductor travelling all over Queensland rehearsing ensembles and workshops with students and teachers. Mrs. Jones has also been heavily involved in the world of community music making and has been the musical director of two community concert bands. She is the musical director of one of Australia’s leading wind ensembles: Queensland Wind and Brass. She is has also held the position state secretary of the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association (ABODA). She has designed and presents professional development seminars for other music teachers as well as adjudicated at many competitions and festivals throughout Queensland and New South Wales. Her role with Education Queensland includes multi instrumental teaching, conducting, Instrumental Music Outreach Program (IMonline) as well as developing a new role as an Education Consultant in regards to ensemble direction and conducting. She is the Director of Instrumental Music at Wavell State High School and in currently undergoing her Masters in Music Studies at the Qld Conservatorium.
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Gregory Jones II
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Member Bio I am graduate of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Performance and an Advanced Certificate in Contemporary Music Performance. My objective in attending the university was to gain experience and skills in the areas of the performing arts, due to my childhood interest in music. Since graduating from UB, I have been well equipped with the necessary skills and techniques to effectively and efficiently complete any task that is given to me as well as achieving my goals. In addition to my plans of becoming a composer, arranger, orchestrator and performer, my ultimate goal is to become an ensemble conductor.
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Rufus Jones
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Member Bio Dr. Rufus Jones Jr. began his formal training as an orchestral conductor at the University of Texas at Austin. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music, Dr. Jones continued his formal training as a Clifford D. Clarke Graduate Fellow at the State University of New York in Binghamton where he received a Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting. Dr. Jones completed his formal training at Texas Tech University where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting. Rufus Jones Dr. Jones has studied with internationally recognized conductors like Louis Lane, Gustav Meier, Kirk Trevor, Donald Portnoy, Timothy Perry, Kenneth Kiesler, and Gary Lewis. As a guest conductor Dr. Jones has appeared with the Utah Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, Siena Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Youth Symphony, Omaha Area Youth Symphony, Binghamton Youth Symphony, and the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, to name a few. Dr. Jones has conducted youth, university and professional orchestras throughout this country and abroad. He has been accepted to prestigious conducting programs like the Tanglewood Music Festival (auditor), the Conductors Institute in South Carolina (fellow), and the Leiston Abbey Conducting Masterclass in England (fellow). In 2007, Dr. Jones was invited to perform at the famed Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Teatro in Florence, Italy. While in Florence, he conducted seven performances of the contemporary ballet, “On the Day You Were Born” by American composer, Steven Heitzig. The performances were primarily viewed by young Italian grade school students and benefited the Meyers Children Hospital in Florence, Italy. In addition to his commitment to teaching and conducting, Dr. Jones is an accomplished scholar and published author. His research has focused on African American classical musicians. He has written extensively on the music of William Grant Still. In 2009, his three volume edition, The Collected Folk Suites of William Grant Still was published and featured at the Inaugural William Grant Still Tribute Conference in Natchez, Mississippi. On April 16, 2015, Dr. Jones released his latest project entitled, Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad. This monograph is the first authorized full-length biography of the first African American conductor to the lead the New York Philharmonic in 1941. Dr. Jones has received outstanding reviews on his book from some of the leading African American classical musicians in the world and has been featured on local and national radio and TV shows, like the “Tavis Smiley on PBS” show. In addition to his duties as Assistant Conductor of the Broward Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Jones is on the conducting faculty with the Florida Youth Orchestra, and Director of Orchestral and Choral Studies at Westglades Middle School in Parkland, Florida. He also serves as an adjudicator and clinician for Festival Disney in Orlando, Florida.
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Samuel Jones
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Member Bio Samuel Jones first came into prominence as a conductor, one of the few Americans to advance through the ranks of the smaller American orchestras to ecome conductor of one of the majors (the Rochester Philharmonic). He then achieved national recognition in another field as he founded a significant new music school and served for six years as its first dean (Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music). All the while he has continued to compose and has amassed a vital and active catalogue of works After stepping down as dean, Jones continued at the Shepherd School as Professor of Conducting and Composition and Director of Graduate Studies, spending a total of 24 years at Rice. In 1997 he retired from full-time academic life, and he and his wife moved to the Seattle area where he was appointed by Gerard Schwarz as Composer in Residence of the Seattle Symphony. He served fourteen years in that position, the longest such tenure in American orchestral history, composing a large number of significant works, including a successful series of concertos for principal players in the orchestra. In addition to his work in composition, Jones continues to spend significant time as a teacher of conducting and composition, for which he has also developed a wide reputation. As a past president of the Conductors’ Guild and as a frequent master teacher at the Conductors Institute and other conductor study classes, Jones has made a strong contribution to the advancement of the American conductor. Samuel Jones is the recipient of numerous awards for his compositions, including a Grammy nomination for the Seattle Symphony recording of his work for children, The Shoe Bird, based on a story by Eudora Welty; a Ford Foundation Recording/Publication Award; a Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant; NEA Grants; repeated ASCAP Awards; an International Angel Award; the Seattle Symphony Artistic Recognition Award, the Houston Symphony Distinguished Service Award, and six Music Awards from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. He received an honorary doctorate from Millsaps College in 2000, and the same year he was inducted into the inaugural class of the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame. He was named the Music Alive Composer in Residence for the Meridian Symphony by Meet The Composer and the League of American Orchestras. His works have been performed by such orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the All-Star Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Britt Festival, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, and scores of others.
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Stuart Jones
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Member Bio Stuart Jones (b. 1964, Pittsburgh, PA) maintains active careers in both music and software engineering. He earned a Doctorate in Musical Arts at Columbia University as a Mellon Fellow and studied both music and computer science at Florida State University and SUNY-Stony Brook. His composition teachers include Arthur Berger, Mario Davidovsky, Fred Lerdahl, John Lessard and Armand Qualliotine. Dr. Jones is the music director of the Acton Community Band and was a founding member and conductor of the LUMEN Contemporary Music Ensemble, a Boston-based new music ensemble. His composition prizes include the BMI Student Composer Award for his Storm Dreams for violin and piano and the International Horn Society Composition Prize for his Variations for horn and percussion. His compositions have been performed by LUMEN, Fear No Music (Seattle), Zeitgeist (Minneapolis), New York New Music Ensemble, Omega Ensemble (New York), the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM (New York), Columbia Sinfonietta (New York), Centre Acanthe (Avignon, France), International Horn Society, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS), University of Florida Electronic Music Conference, Wellesley Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival, Sandpoint (Idaho) Music Festival and June in Buffalo Music Festival. He is a former member of the Board Of Governors for the American Composers Alliance. Dr. Jones is principal owner of Berwick Heights Software, a software consulting firm helping businesses grow their services on the internet.
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Joseph Joubert
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Member Bio Joseph Joubert is a hugely versatile musician whose wide-ranging accomplishments and talent as a pianist, arranger, orchestrator, Broadway conductor, and music director have taken him around the world. Most recently Mr. Joubert was musical director and orchestrator for “Harriet Tubman” star Cynthia Erivo in three sold out Tokyo performances. Next season Mr. Joubert will be musical supervisor for “Blue” at the Apollo directed by Phylicia Rashad starring Lynn Whitfield and Leslie Ugams. Also next year Roundabout Theatre Company is presenting “Caroline, or Change” using orchestrations by Mr. Joubert. Last summer Mr. Joubert was orchestrator with Danny Troob for Alan Menken’s “Hercules” presented by PublicWorks for Disney. Mr. Joubert was music supervisor and orchestrator for Classic Stage Company’s “Carmen Jones” starring Anika Noni Rose to rave reviews. His Broadway orchestration credits include: “The Color Purple”(Drama Desk Nomination), “Disaster”, “Violet”(Drama Desk Nomination), “Leap of Faith”, and “Caroline or Change”. He was Musical Director for Berry Gordy’s “Motown The Musical “and was assistant conductor for Nice Work If You Can Get It and Billy Elliot. Mr. Joubert was guest conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Christmas Concert featuring Take 6. Mr. Joubert was Musical Director, Arranger, and Pianist for Norm Lewis’s American Songbook, the PBS Live from Lincoln Center special. Mr. Joubert was orchestrator/musical supervisor and conductor for the PBS special “Three Mo’Tenors” and production of “Three Mo Divas”. Mr. Joubert was an orchestrator for the TV show “Smash” and the film “Night’s In Rodanthe”. He received a grammy nomination for Best Arrangement Acompanying A Vocal for the Broadway Inspirational Voices “Great Joy”. As a record producer and arranger/orchestrator he has worked with Ashford and Simpson, Diana Ross, George Benson, Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, Jennifer Holliday, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross, Norm Lewis and Diane Reeves. His orchestrations are used by symphonies across the USA including The New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia orchestras. He appeared in the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Porgy and Bess as the piano-player Jasbo Brown. Critics have hailed Mr. Joubert’s “sensitive and supportive” performances as an accompanist and the “uncommon tonal beauty” of his playing. He has collaborated with such classical singers as Denyce Graves, Esther Hinds, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Simon Estes, a n d Hilda Harris, and performed with Kathleen Battle at the White House for President Bill Clinton as well as Carnegie Hall. Mr. Joubert is at home arranging and performing in any style from classical to pop, gospel to Broadway, spiritual to R & B. He has reinterpreted classic hymns on his solo piano CD Total Praise and most recent solo piano CD A Mighty Fortress Is Our God: The Joubert Experience released by GIA Publications. His published arrangements are performed all over the world.
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