GUEST CONDUCTORS
Col. Arnald D. Gabriel
retired from the United States Air Force in 1985 following a
distinguished 36 year military career, at which time he was awarded an
unprecedented third Legion of Merit for his service to the United
States Air Force and to music education throughout the country. He
served as Commander/Conductor of the internationally renowned U.S. Air
Force Band, Symphony Orchestra, and Singing Sergeants from 1964 to
1985. In 1990, he was named the first Conductor Emeritus of the USAF
Band at a special concert held at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington,
D.C. Col. Gabriel served on the faculty of George Mason University in
Fairfax, Virginia, from 1985 to 1995, as Conductor of the GMU Symphony
Orchestra and as Chairman, Department of Music for eight of those
years. In recognition of his ten years service to the university, he
was named Professor Emeritus of Music.
A combat machine gunner with the United
States Army's famed 29th Infantry Division in Europe during WW II,
Gabriel received two awards of the Bronze Star Medal, the Combat
Infantryman's Badge and the French Croix de Guerre. Following his
separation from the Army in 1946, Gabriel enrolled in Ithaca College,
where he earned both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Music
Education. In 1989, his alma mater conferred upon him an Honorary
Doctor of Music degree and in 1997, he was further honored with its
Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also listed in the International
Who‘s Who in Music, 7th edition.
Director Emeritus Colonel John R. Bourgeois,
USMC (Ret.), was the 25th Director of “The President’s Own” United
States Marine Band. His acclaimed career spanned nine presidential
administrations, from Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower to Bill Clinton.
Bourgeois is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans. He joined
the Marine Corps in 1956 and entered “The President’s Own” as a French
hornist and arranger in 1958. Named Director of the Marine Band in
1979, Bourgeois was promoted to colonel in June 1983. He retired from
active duty July 11, 1996.
As Director of “The President’s Own,” Bourgeois was Music Adviser to
the White House. He selected the musical program and directed the band
on its traditional place of honor at the U.S. Capitol for four
Presidential inaugurations, a Marine Band tradition dating to 1801. He
regularly conducted the Marine Band and the Marine Chamber Orchestra at
the White House, appearing there more frequently than any other
musician in the nation.
Under Bourgeois’ leadership the Marine Band presented its first
overseas performances in history, traveling to the Netherlands in 1985
where “The President’s Own” performed with the Marine Band of the Royal
Netherlands Navy. In February 1990, Bourgeois led the Marine Band on an
historic 18-day concert tour of the former Soviet Union as part of the
first U.S.-U.S.S.R. Armed Forces band exchange. He also directed the
Marine Band on 16 nationwide tours, bringing the music of “The
President’s Own” to the American people.
Anthony Parnther
is Musical Director and Conductor of the Orange County Symphony in
Anaheim, California. In addition to his duties with the O.C. Symphony,
Mr Parnther serves as the Founding Conductor of the Appalachian Brass
Orchestra as well as the newly formed Orange County Wind Symphony He is
also the Artistic Director of the Anaheim Music Festival and the
founding Artistic Director of the Wind Symphony Conducting Institute.
A multifaceted musician, Anthony has been featured as a conductor and
performer in virtually every musical medium from ballet to opera, and
musicals to chamber groups and has performed alongside or conducted in
concert such noted artists as Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis, Pat
Sheridan, Ronald Rhomm, Doc Severinsen, Marvin Stamm and many others.
An advocate of new music, Anthony recently led the Appalachian Brass in
concert at the International Brass and Chamber Music Festival at the
University of Louisville, where they performed and premiered works by
leading and upcoming composers Eric Ewazen, Lauren Bernofsky, Anthony
Plog, Brian Sadler and others.
Don Caneva,
(1936-2008) a third-generation band director, joined the Coastal
Communities Concert Band in 1988. His life has been dedicated to music
as both a director and an educator. He has taught music at every school
level from elementary through college. His formal education includes a
Bachelor of Music Education degree from DePaul University and a Master
of Arts degree from the University of Hawaii. He has also taken
advanced studies at the University of Illinois, Western Illinois
University, and Northern Illinois University.
During Don's 10-year tenure as the Director of Bands at John Hersey
High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, his band performed at
numerous prestigious events which included "The Tournament of Roses
Parade " - Pasadena California, "The Cotton Bowl Parade" - Dallas,
Texas, "The Orange Bowl Parade" - Miami, Florida, and "The College
All-Star Game"- Chicago, Illinois. The Hersey Symphonic Winds' concert
performances included: "The Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic" -
Chicago, Illinois, "The Mideast Instrumental Music Conference" -
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "The Northwest Band Clinic" - Moorhead,
Minnesota (3 times), and "The American Bandmasters Association
Convention" - Evanston, Illinois.
GUEST SOLOISTS
Dale Underwood
Acclaimed by the Washington Post as "the Heifez of the alto saxophone,"
is internationally recognized as one of the foremost classical
saxophonists of our time. Mr. Underwood has toured extensively
throughout the world as a featured soloist, performing in every state
in the continental United States, Alaska as well as in England,
Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Italy, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina,
Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Canada, Austria, Hungary and for Pope John
Paul II at the Vatican.
A frequent guest soloist with leading orchestras throughout the United
States and abroad, Mr. Underwood has performed with the Boston Pops
Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, Australian Wind Orchestra,
and the National Conservatory Orchestra in Sao Paolo, Brazil, among
others. In 1993, Mr. Underwood made his Carnegie Hall debut in a
program featuring Claude T.Smith's Fantasy and A Gershwin Fantasy (both
written especially for Mr. Underwood). In addition to being a sought
after soloist, Mr. Underwood is also a noted recording artist. He has
amassed a prolific discography of classical and contemporary works by
leading composers Paul Creston, Jay Chatterway, Robert Muczynski, and
Maurice Whitney. His vast repertoire includes all of the standard
saxophone concerti, as well as over thirty original works written
especially for him by noted American composers such as Walter Hartley,
Clare Grundman, Jay Chattaway, Alan Vizzutti, and Ralph Martino.
Jim Self
is a Los Angeles freelance musician, a veteran of over 1400 motion
picture scores, hundreds of television shows and records, and is tuba
soloist on many prominent movies. His tuba was the "Voice of the
Mothership" in John Williams score to Close Encounters of the Third
Kind. Recent films include War of the Worlds, Lemony Snicket, Legend of
Zorro, King Kong, Ice Age/Meltdown, Eight Below, X Men 3, All the
King’s Men and Evan Almighty.
He is Principal Tuba/Cimbasso with the Pasadena and Pacific Symphonies,
the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Los Angeles Opera and Opera
Pacific orchestras. Self holds degrees from Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Catholic University and a DMA from the University of
Southern California--where he teaches tuba and chamber music.
His major tuba teachers were William Becker, Harvey Phillips and Tommy
Johnson. Jim is a past president of The International Tuba/Euphonium
Association, a former member of The U.S. Army Band, Washington, D.C and
was on the faculty at the University of Tennessee. His compositions and
arrangements include works for solo tuba, brass quintet, band,
orchestra and other brass, woodwind and string chamber music. Jim has
produced nine solo jazz and classical recordings.
Helen Goode-Castro
graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, England with an
Honors Degree and a Professional Performers Diploma in Clarinet. She
furthered her studies at the Royal College of Music where she received
the Artist Diploma.
While in London she performed with several European Orchestras
including the BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, and Söd-Bayerische
Philharmonie, Germany. She moved to Los Angeles to study with Gary Gray
at UCLA where she obtained an MFA in Clarinet Performance and then
began studies at USC on a MDA with Yehuda Gilad and Michele Zukovsky.
She was a finalist in the Boosey and Hawkes Clarinet competition in
Chicago and won a position with the Sarasota Opera Festival Orchestra
for 1996 and 1997.
Since moving to LA, Helen freelances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angles Master Chorale, Mozart
Camerata, Santa Barbara Symphony, Redlands Symphony, Inland Empire
Symphony, California Philharmonic and Long Beach Symphony. She recently
recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London where she
performed the Tone Poem for Clarinet and Orchestra by Charles Fernandez.
Ms. Goode-Castro is currently on the faculty at California State
University, Long Beach and California State University, Los Angeles.
She also teaches at the Los Angeles county High School for the Arts.
Trombonist Alex Iles
has enjoyed a varied and successful career in many musical settings. He
is an active member of the musically diverse Southern California
freelance performing and recording community.
Alex began his musical career while a student at UCLA, as a member of
the Disneyland All American College Band. He has studied trombone
privately with Roy Main, Ralph Sauer, Byron Peebles and Per Brevig.
Since graduating from UCLA, he has gone on to enjoy his musical life as
an in-demand trombonist/low-brass performer.
Among the varied palette of artists with whom Alex has performed and/or
recorded are: Joe Cocker, James Horner, Henry Mancini, Alan Jackson,
The Tonight Show, Hans Zimmer, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Johnny
Mathis, Lalo Shiffrin, Natalie Cole, Danny Elfman, Ray Charles, Trevor
Rabin, Harry Connick Jr., Robbie Williams, Terence Blanchard, John
Williams, and Prince. He has played in the pit orchestras of numerous
Los Angeles productions of Broadway shows including: The Lion King,
Phanom of the Opera, Chicago, West Side Story, The Producers and
Hairspray.
He has toured as lead and solo jazz trombonist with the Woody Herman
and Maynard Ferguson big bands [with whom he has recorded twice].
Today, he performs and records as a regular member of many of the top
big bands and jazz groups in the L.A. area including Bob Florence's
Limited Edition, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, The Tom Kubis Big
Band. He has also recorded and performs with the The Bill Cunliffe
Sextet and The David Roitstein Group.
David Jackson
was featured soloist at several recent engagements, including
performances at Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Music at
Gretna in Mt. Gretna, PA, and with the Ann Arbor Concert Band. He was
also guest soloist with Los Angeles Symphonic Winds, both in Los
Angeles and at the Mid Europe Festival in Schladming, Austria. Other
recent solo performances include the Interlochen World Youth Wind
Symphony and with the Idyllwild Festival Wind Ensemble at Disney Hall
in Los Angeles.
In addition to these performances, Professor Jackson recently performed
master classes and recitals at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, the
University of Minnesota, UCLA, California State University-Northridge,
and Pepperdine University.
An advocate of new music, Jackson has commissioned and performed the
world premieres of numerous works for the trombone. He also has
performed with the Detroit Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Chicago
Symphony, the Michigan Opera Theater, the Fort Worth Symphony, the New
World Symphony, the Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra, and the Spoleto,
Italy Festival Orchestra. A respected chamber musician, Jackson has
performed with the Galliard Brass, the Music of the Baroque, and the
Brass Band of Battle Creek.Professor Jackson is Associate Professor of
Trombone at the University of Michigan. He also has been a faculty
member at Baylor University, Eastern Michigan University, and the
University of Toledo. He is a member of the Detroit Chamber Winds and
Strings and of Chicago’s Fulcrum Point New Music Project. In the
summers, he teaches and performs at the Hot Springs Music Festival and
the Idyllwild Arts Festival.
David
Pinto has been active in the field of music performance and education
for over forty years. Beginning his career as a concert pianist,
performing in solo recitals as well as soloist with symphony orchestras
(Long Beach Symphony, Glendale Symphony, Nevada Symphony), David then
branched out to work in the popular and jazz mediums, working in TV,
Theatre and Film as a pianist, conductor and arranger (Love Boat, Sonny
and Cher Show, Captain and Tenille, Ann-Margret, etc).
David is also a computer programmer specializing in making mainstream
music applications accessible to blind musicians. Among his celebrity
clients are Dianne Shur, Ronny Milsap, Kevin Kern, Marcus Roberts, and
the late Ray Charles. His work with blind musicians has recently been
featured twice on CBS's 60 minutes.
When he was eight years old, Larry Zalkind
jumped at the chance to enter the music program at his local elementary
school. Inspired by his favorite group, the Tijuana Brass, he had
always wanted to play the trumpet. But there were no trumpets left, and
his school music teacher Nora Graham settled the issue by declaring,
“You look like a trombone player to me!” His fate sealed, Zalkind
carried the enormous trombone case home from school with the help of a
fellow third grader. After studying with Harold Diner and Norman
Bernstein, Zalkind entered the California Institute of the Arts Youth
program in eighth grade, where he coached chamber music with Los
Angeles Tubist Tommy Johnson. By the age of 17 Zalkind was a student at
USC, where he studied with Robert Marsteller and completed his
bachelor’s degree in music education and master’s degrees in music
performance. Other highly influential teachers during that time were
Ralph Sauer, Byron Peebles, Jimmy Stamp, Tommy Johnson, Arnold Jacobs,
Terry Cravens and Dennis Smith. In the fall of 1981, while pursuing his
doctorate at the University of Michigan, 25-year-old Zalkind won the
audition to become Principal Trombonist for the Utah Symphony, a
position he has held ever since.
Chris Tedesco
has distinguished himself as a one of the top call trumpet players on
the music scene in Los Angeles since 1987. Equally at home performing
classical trumpet, lead trumpet or jazz solos, chamber music or
orchestral pieces, Chris’s sound has been heard on numerous recordings
for Movies, TV shows, TV Commercials, CD recordings, and live dates
with some of the biggest names in the industry. He is also very active
in the “business end” of music as a musician contractor/project manager
for some of this recorded and live work as well.
Early trumpet training in his hometown of Niagara Falls New York
included studies with Ron Mendola, and then Chuck Lirette of the
Buffalo Philharmonic. Awards for All County band and Jazz Band were
awarded for 6th through 12th grade, along with All State Band and Jazz
Band, and finally National Honors Band in his senior year. For his
senior concerto concert Chris performed the Arban’s “Carnival of
Venice” to a packed house and multiple standing ovations. Chris’s
University training included one year at the State University of New
York at Fredonia for one year under William Dederer and four years
under Gil Johnson, (former principal trumpet of the Philadelphia
Orchestra 1958-75) at the University of Miami in Florida for four
years. After completing a bachelor’s degree in Music and Music
Business, Chris freelanced in Western New York in the Artpark Theater
Orchestra, which allowed him the chance to play with members of the
Buffalo Philharmonic, The National Ballet of Canada and the Martha
Graham Dance Co. A short stint on the road with the Glenn Miller Band
and over a year with The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra along with cruise ships
brought him to Los Angeles in 1987 where he has been freelancing ever
since.
Flutist Susan Greenberg
enjoys a versatile career as soloist, chamber musician, symphony
player, and recording artist. The Los Angeles Times has described her
playing as "brilliant," "elegant" and "supple," and has lauded her
"panache" and "musical projection." As a member of the Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra, she has been a frequent soloist on both flute and
piccolo, most recently opening the orchestra's 2006-07 season with a
concerto for flute, alto flute and piccolo written for her by Gernot
Wolfgang. Previously, she had premiered a concerto written for her by
Bruce Broughton. Ms. Greenberg has also appeared as guest soloist with
the San Francisco and Oakland Symphonies, the Santa Monica Symphony,
the Napa Valley Symphony, and at the Hollywood Bowl. She has performed
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, L.A. Opera, New York City Opera,
American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, as well as at the Casals, Ojai
and Martha's Vineyard Music Festivals. Ms. Greenberg was the principal
flutist for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra's tour of Japan, and has
received the "Most Valuable Player" award on the flute from the
National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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