Tuesday, February 6, 2007 3:54 PM
| Norman Leyden Harold Lieberman Daniel Lonie Dr. John T. MacLean Joshua Missal Kirt Mosier David Resnick Mary Alice Rich Robert Romza Joshua Reznicow Tracey Rush Allan Small Charles Small Raymond Songayllo Robert Stoskopf |
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Atar Arad was born in Israel in 1945 and received the Artist Diploma from the Israeli Academy in 1966. Gradue, La Chapelle Musicale de la Reine Elisbeth Brussels, 1971. He won First Prize in the Geneva International Competition, 1972. Professor Arad served as principal violist of the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra from 1973-75, was Senior Lecturer at the Royal Northern School of Music 1980-87, and Rich University, 1987-91. He was a member of the Cleveland Quartet, 1980-87, an Artist-Faculty member at Aspen Music Festival, and gave concert tours and festivals worldwide, including Berlin, Edinburgh, Israel, Paris and Salzburg. He now lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he is Professor of Music (Viola) at Indiana University. Martha Bishop resides in Atlanta, where she teaches cello and viola da gamba at Agnes Scott College. She is cellist in the Westminster String Quartet and the Vivaldi Trio, and viola da gamba soloist with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. She has done a number of publications for viola da gamba which are used world-wide. Her publications for cello include a collection of Canonic Duets and a collection of Irish Tunes for solo cello in a series ,”The Cello Gets the Melody.” M. L. Daniels taught Music Theory, Orchestration , and Composition at Abilene Christian University for 34 years prior to his retirement in 1993. His musical background includes a Doctor of Education degree from North Texas State University and composition studies with Samuel Adler and William Latham. Dr. Daniels has written the majority of his 70 published compositions for young orchestras, bands, and choruses. His dedication to the music of young musicians has brought him much acclaim and many awards. He is a four time winner of the National School Orchestra Association Composition Contest. Dr. Daniels lives in Austin, Texas. Where he is spending his retirement composing, adjudicating and golf. Nancy Bloomer Deussen is well-known throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as a composer, performer, arts organizer, and music educator. She is co-founder of the SF Bay Chapter of the National Association of Composers, USA, known and has received numerous commissions locally and nationally. Ms. Bloomer Deussen is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and the USC School of Music and has studied composition with Vittorio Giannini, Lukas Foss, Ingolf Dahl, and Wilson Coker. Among her many awards are Winner of the subscription performance in 2nd Bay Area Composers Symposium Orchestral Awards in 1994 for Reflections on the Hudson and First Prize winner 1996 of the Britten-on-the Bay Composition Competition for her Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano. Marcus Dowty is a native of Kansas and holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Wichita State University. Post-graduate study has been completed at Temple University, Arizona State University of Missouri at Kansas City. A member of MENC, KMEA, and ASTA, Mr. Dowty has taught orchestra in the Kansas City area since 1972. As a violinist, Mr. Dowty has performed with the Wichita Symphony and the National Symphony of Costa Rica. He is a charter member of the New South String Quartet that specializes in performed American Jazz. standards. Mr. Dowty has developed an interest in arranging for strings, and he strives to provide interesting and playable arrangement that will inspire and motivate students. Christine Due is an active freelance violist in Chicago, performing with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles. She received a BFA with high honors from DePaul University, during which time she studied with Milton Preves and William Schoen. She has studied and performed extensively in Europe, most notable at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna with Eduard Melkus, and in London with Nannie Jamieson. She maintains a private studio of highly accomplished and prize-winning students, and in 1997 she received the American String Teachers Association “Private Teacher of the Year Award” for the state of Illinois. In 1999, she was elected Secretary of Chicago Viola Society. José L. Elizondo, Mexican composer (b. 1972), studied music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University. Mr. Elizondo’s symphonic, choral, and chamber music works have been featured at numerous festivals, including the Banff International Festival in Canada, the Ayton Castle Festival in Scotland, and the ADUR Festival in England. Performers of his works include orchestras in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas, such as the national symphonies of Kazakhstan and Honduras, the symphony orchestras of Santa Cruz and San Jose California in the United States, the Mexico State Symphony, the Canberra Orchestra in Australia, and many others. Mr. Elizondo lives in Boston, where he is active as a composer, conductor and language coach. He also works at Speech Works International designing state-of-the-art speech-recognition technology systems. David Goodwin is a third generation music teacher. He has been teaching orchestra (grades 6-12) in DeKalb County (Georgia) Public Schools since 1984. He earned his BA in Music Education from the University of Florida, a Masters in Music Education from Florida State University, and a Masters in Music Performance from Florida State University. His orchestras consistently receive Superior ratings at festivals. He served in the United States Air Forse as a trombonist. David lives in Atlanta where he performs frequently as a free-lance bassist. Brent Hakanson, a native Oregonian, received his Master of Music Composition degree at the University of Oregon in 1990. He studied under Hal Owen, Monte Tubb, and Derek Healey. Mr. Hakanson’s honors include College Division Winner OMTA Composition contest, 1985; The Schneider Award piano performance cash endowment, Southern Oregon University, 1986; and three time winner of the Ruth Lorraine Close Fellowship in Composition at University of Oregon, 1988, 1989, 1990. Commissioned works include A Tribute in Thanksgiving, commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for the 1992 Northwest Convention, and a setting of the Episcopal liturgy for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Medford, Oregon. Mr. Hakanson teaches public school orchestra in Klamath Falls City Schools, Klamath Falls, Oregon. He is affiliated with MENC, ASTA, and OMEA. Bradford L. Heaston began formal music training at the age if 9, studying piano in Southern California. He debuted as a soloist with the Riverside Symphony Orchestra in 1973, performing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”. He subsequently moved to Texas, earned a business degree, and worked in the financial field for ten years. During that time he stayed musically active, singing in various civic choruses in the San Antonio area, and composing a little. In 1990 he abandoned the financial industry and returned to school to earn his music degree. He completed his studies in 1993 at the University of Texas at San Antonio, majoring in theory and composition, under the tutelage of Dr. James Balentine and the late Dr. Reed Holmes. He has since written works in a number of idioms, including piano solo, brass ensemble, woodwind quintet piano and voice, and of course, string ensemble. Mr. Heaston currently resides in San Antonio, where he is a sales manager at a piano dealership, teaches piano, and spends time with his wife and two sons. Wing Ho is the newly appointed professor of viola and chamber music at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. Prior to returning to Beijing, Mr. Ho taught for seven years at the School of Arts at the University of Charleston, South Carolina, where he headed the String Department and served as Music Director and Conductor of the University Orchestra and the Summer Workshop. John Raymond Howell joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1979 after teaching at Indiana University. His several musical careers include service in the U. S. Air Force Band and touring as a an entertainer with Warner Bros. And Decca recording artists The Four Saints, appearing on the major TV variety shows of the 1960s. While at Indiana he studied viola with William Primrose, toured with Henry Mancini, and directed the All American College Singers at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. He has written extensively on the life and work of string educator George Bornoff. Dr. Michael Kimber assumed duties as professor of viola at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in the fall of 1999 after 20 years at the University of Kansas. Formerly violist of the Kronos quartet and the Atlanta Virtuosi, he has performed widely in Europe, Australia, and North America. Among his teachers was Ralph Hillyer, founding violist of the Juilliard String Quartet. Mr. Kimber is active as a chamber musician, as soloist in recitals and with orchestras, and as a baroque violinist and violist. His Poly-Pad shoulder rest is widely used and his Scales, Arpeggios, and Double Stops for the Violist and Twelve Caprices are listed in the 1997 edition of the American String Teachers Association String Syllabus. Richard Lane, a native of Paterson, New Jersey, graduated from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester where he studied piano with Jose Echaniz and Armand Basile and composition with Louis Mennini, Wayne Barlow, and Bernard Rogers. He is the recipient of both the Eastman School Recording and Publication Award and a Ford Foundation Grant and his works have been performed extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Australia, as well as in Mexico and the Soviet Union. Mr. Lane’s compositions include chamber works, choral works, piano concertos, piano solos, and works for voice and piano. His works have been published by Carl Fischer, Boosey & Hawkes, Coburn Press, and Mills Music, and have been recorded on the Brass Unlimited, Music-Minus-One, and Mercury Record labels. Following two years as composer-in-residence for the Rochester, New York, and Lexington, Kentucky school systems under Ford Foundation auspices, he returned to Patterson where he composes and teaches piano and composition. He spends summers on Cape Cod where he is widely known as a performer and composer. Dr. Andrew Levin is a musician of many interests. In his post as Associate Professor of Music at Clemson University, Dr. Levin’s primary responsibility is conducting the college/community orchestra. As a violist, Dr. Levin often plays in the Charleston and Greenville Symphony Orchestras as well as in chamber groups for wedding and special performances. He has conducted local, county, regional and state festival orchestras in Texas, Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Dr. Levin has also arranged and composed music since his high school days, where his first work was the Gross Concerto. Since then, he has turned out works for various string and wind ensembles and full orchestra. These works have been performed by professional orchestras, as well as youth, festival, college and community orchestras, and various professional and student chamber ensembles. Dr. Levin earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from California State University, Los Angeles studying viola, piano, and conducting; his Master of Music degree in Conducting and Piano Performance at Rice University in Houston, and his Doctor of Arts degree in Conducting, with a secondary emphasis in Viola Performance, at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Norman Leyden has been conductor of the Oregon Symphony’s Pops series since 1970. Also in demand as a guest conductor, he has conducted the Boston Pops, Minnesota Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, San Diego Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, National Symphony, and the Utah Symphony. Dr. Leyden served as staff arranger for the Glenn Miller Band and is regarded today as one of the foremost authorities on big band music of the swing era. As a staff conductor for RCA Victor, he composed and arranged music for many children’s albums including Cinderella, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Alice in Wonderland. He has conducted and arranged for such well-known artists as Mitch Miller, Gordon MacRae, Ezio Pinza, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Sarah Vaughan. From 1956-59, he was musical director for Arthur Godfrey. Dr. Leyden holds degrees from Yale University and Columbia University. Harold Lieberman performs in many orchestras and ensembles around New England and is a founding member of the Boston Viola Quartet, for which many of his arrangements were prepared. Mr. Lieberman holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied viola with Asbjorn Finess and Lillian Fuchs. Daniel Lonie is currently teaching in Garland, Texas where he has served as a high school orchestra director for the past nineteen years. Mr. Lonie has also taught gifted and talented elementary students for the past eleven years. His professional instrument is the viola. Mr. Lonie is a member of American String Teachers Association, the Texas Orchestra Directors Association, and the Texas Music Educators Association. He is also a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. He is a graduate of the University of North Texas and has done graduate work at U.N.T. and Webster University. Dr. John T. MacLean, retired Professor of Theory, Composition, and Strings at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, has written more than 55 works for orchestra, band, keyboard, chorus, solo instruments, and various chamber ensembles. Dr. MacLean holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Drew University, Masters of Arts and Music degrees from Florida State University, and Doctor of Music from Indiana University. His composition teachers include Dika Newlin, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Bernhard Heiden, Henry Cowell, John Boda, and Carlisle Floyd. As a violinist and violist, Dr. MacLean has been a member of the symphonies of Jacksonville FL, Asheville NC, Chattanooga TN, and Greenville SC, as well as the Brevard Chamber Orchestra. He was the founder of the Chamber Music Workshop at Converse College and served as its director from 1983-1997. His music has been performed by symphony orchestras at the Brevard Music Center, Oklahoma City, Greenville SC, Baltimore MD, Spartanburg SC, as well as the Columbia (SC) Philharmonic, Garden State (NJ) Chamber Orchestra and the Brevard Chamber Orchestra. Dr. MacLean resides in Lawrenceville, Georgia, where he is a member of the Gwinnett Philharmonic. He is a member of BMI, American String Teachers Association, American Viola Society, Southeastern Composers League, and the American Federation of Musicians. Joshua Missal is known throughout the United States as composer, conductor, educator, clinician, and performer. With over 45 published works to his credit, he has successfully explored a variety of mediums including orchestra, band, chorus, brass choir, percussion ensemble, cello and viola ensembles, and solo instruments. He has been a member of ASCAP since 1964. Mr. Missal received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music. Upon completion of his education, he became conductor of the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra. He went on to serve three years as CWO Air Force Band Director. Later, he was appointed head of the Music Education department at Southern Mississippi University and conductor of the Southern Mississippi Symphony. From there, Mr. Missal went to Wichita State University where he was Chairman of the Music Theory/Composition Department and Professor of Viola, as well as Associate Conductor of the Wichita Symphony. Before coming to the Phoenix AZ metropolitan area where he currently resides, Mr. Missal spent several years as Chairman of the Music Department of Tunxis Community College in Connecticut. Since arriving in Arizona, he conducted the Scottsdale Civic Orchestra for five years and continues to be invited to guest conduct secondary school regional festivals and clinics throughout the Southwest. Kirt Mosier received his bachelors degree in music education and masters degree in music composition from the University of Missouri Conservatory of Music in Kansas City, Missouri. Currently, he is the director of orchestras at Lee’s Summit High School and Pleasant Lea Junior High School in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Mr. Mosier is also an adjunct professor with Baker University, and teaches music history in the master of liberal arts program. Mr. Mosier has appeared as guest clinician throughout the mid-west region, and is a member of American String Teachers Association and Music Educators National Conference. In addition to his educational and composer careers, Mr. Mosier is a professional pianist, and has played for such groups as The Drifters, Bobby Ridell, Del Shannon, Lou Christie, and The Fifth Dimension. Mr. Mosier’s Baltic Dance for String Orchestra (published by Neil A. Kjos) was the 1993 winner of the National School Orchestra Association Composition Contest. David Resnick is the Instrumental Music Director at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. He has taught at all levels and been the guest conductor for many honor bands. Mr. Resnick has written music for band, choir, and string orchestra as well as solo literature. He has also acted, directed, or composed for over forty musical theater productions, including his own show, “Sketches from a Drawing Room.” Mr. Resnick’s compositions have been regularly performed in Eastern Iowa and highlighted on National Public Radio. Mary Alice Rich is a back-to-back winner of the Texas Orchestra Directors Association Composition Contest. Other awards include the Dallas Songwriters Association Contest (1st place in Children's Song Category) and ASCAP Special Awards. Her compositions have been performed throughout the United States and have received performances in Europe as well. Several of her compositions have also been selected for All-State and All-Region Orchestras. Mary Alice, a violinist, received her bachelor's and master's degrees under Paul Rolland and Sergiu Luca at the University of Illinois. Always a teacher, Ms. Rich feels that her compositions are an extension of her teaching. Robert Romza, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated from Duquesne University with a Bachelor of Science in Music Education. In 1993, he received a Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Georgia. He has studied composition under Robert Shankovich, Daniel Perlongo, Leonard Ball, and Roger Vogel. Honors include first prize in the 1992 and 1993 Philip Slates Composition Contest sponsored by the Southeastern Composers League and membership in Phi Kappa Phi. Mr. Romza, a member of the Iowa Composers Forum, is a composer, church musician, and educator and presently resides in Iowa City, Iowa. Joshua Reznicow is native of the Twin Cities and a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa where he received his BME and BM in string education and composition/theory. Leading up to his first teaching position in the Linn-Mar Community School District in Marion, Iowa, Mr. Reznicow taught theory at the UNI Suzuki School, as well as composition and music history at the Tops Piano Camp in Boca Raton, Florida. He has been composer-in-residence at the Austin Chamber Music Center (ACMC) in Austin, Texas, where he has coached several ensembles and has had several of his pieces performed and premiered. Mr. Reznicow’s works include pieces for piano, ensemble and orchestral works, and has helped produce several rock albums. Mr. Reznicow has started an electronic string/composition group at Linn-Mar where students have the opportunity to work creatively within a technology-based medium, utilizing their talents and expertise on their string instruments and beyond. Tracey Rush has recently finished a four-year stint as chair of the Iowa Composers Forum. Mrs. Rush’s works have been performed all over the United States in concerts and at festivals, including the Naples (FL) Philharmonic under the direction of Eric Kunzel, the Knoxville (TN) Symphony under the direction of Kirk Trevor, and the Pittsburgh (PA) Symphony, conducted by Lucas Richmond. She has been commissioned by numerous schools and professional ensembles. She has a BS in music education from Bob Jones University and is completing her MME from the University of Northern Iowa. In addition to being principal violist in the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, Mrs. Rush is instructor of music appreciation at Northeast Iowa Community College and teaches junior high strings for the Dubuque Community School District. She founded and directs the Dubuque Community String Orchestra and is currently the executive director of the Northeast Iowa School of Music in Dubuque, Iowa, which she founded in 2001. Allan Small (1910-1998) was a self-taught composer, who, in his youth, played with several dance bands in the Catskill Mountain hotels. He arranged for such notables as Andre Kostelanetz, Morton Gould, Paul Whiteman, and RCA Victor records, among others. In the 1950s and 60s, he was active as a piano teacher and began to publish his own music. His company was successful and was bought by Alfred Music Publishers. After retirement, he began writing symphonic music as well as works for the Utopia String Ensemble. In 1994, he became conductor, arranger, and composer for the Florida Mandolin Orchestra. Mr. Small was a member of AFM Local 802 and ASCAP.
Raymond Songayllo, a native of Massachusetts, earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano from Northwestern University. As a pianist, Mr. Songayllo has performed extensively throughout the U.S., including twice at Carnegie Recital Hall, and abroad, including performances at College Music Society Conferences in Berlin and Vienna. As a composer, he has had works presented in various venues, college and university events, festivals and conferences, and in Fontainbleau, working in composition at the Conservatoire Americaine. He won the Keyboard Category Award at the Delius Competition at Jacksonville University in 1976, 1992, and 1993. He has received grants from both the Minnesota Composers Forum and Meet the Composer. Mr. Songayllo is a founding member of the Iowa Composers Forum, and was the recipient of the 1993 Pyle Commission for his Piano Quintet. His compositions include works for solo piano, harpsichord, piano with instrumental combinations, songs, and orchestral compositions. His style is eclectic, employing both tonal and non-tonal styles.
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