AOA All-State 2009 Clinicians


CarlRieke graduated fromSt.Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota) in 1997 receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Music Education. He received his Masters Degree in Instrumental Conducting from Georgia State University in 2003.


Mr. Rieke has served as the music director at the Red Wing Theater Company in Red Wing, Minnesota. He has also performed with a variety of orchestras, including the Mankato


Symphony


Orchestra, the Owatonna Chamber Orchestra, the New Ulm Civic Orchestra, and the Southern Crescent Orchestra where he served as concertmaster for one year. He is currently in his second year as an assistant conductor with the Southern Crescent Symphony Orchestra.


From 1999 until 2006, Mr. Rieke was Director of Orchestras at Shiloh High School inGwinnett County. While teaching inGwinnett, hewas the co-conductor of the Gwinnett County Youth Symphony for six years. Under Mr. Rieke’s direction, the ShilohHigh School ChamberOrchestra and Gwinnett County Youth Symphony were chosen to perform at the Georgia Music Educator’s Association state conference. Mr. Rieke currently teaches at Ola Middle School and Ola High School in Henry County.


Mr. Rieke has served as Secretary for the Georgia Chapter of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). He also serves as an adjudicator at orchestra festivals and competitions around metro- Atlanta. Mr. Rieke has been an All-State Orchestra organizing chair since 2001 and currently serves as the Georgia Music Educator’s Association Orchestra division chair. Mr. Rieke resides in Stockbridge, Georgia, with his wife Stacy and son, David.


Guest conductor, Andrea L. Meyers is currently theDirector ofOrchestras at Rock Canyon High School, Rocky Heights Middle School 6th


GradeOrchestra, Buffalo 22 October 2008


Ridge, Redstone, Timber Trail, andWildcat Elementary Schools. A Colorado native, Ms.Meyers received a Bachelor’s ofMusic Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1976, and in 1992 received her Master of Arts from the University of Colorado at Denver.


Ms. Meyers enjoys a professional music career as a cellist, conductor, performer, clinician, adjudicator and music education advocate. She is currently the Past-President of the Colorado Chapter of the American String TeachersAssociation, Inc.Ms. Meyers’ professional involvement is


Michael R. Gagliardo was named the second Music Director and Conductor of the Etowah Youth Orchestras in August of 1995. Since his appointment, he has led the EYO to national recognition, including the receipt of ten ASCAP Awards for Programming of Contemporary Music; the 2006 ASCAP Award for American Programming on Foreign Tours; and “Best In Class” Awards for the ensembles of the EYO at the 1998 Gateway New Orleans, 1999 Gateway Myrtle Beach, 2001 Gateway New Orleans, and 2003 Gateway New Orleans Music Festivals. The EYO was also selected to represent the State of Alabama in the first Continental Harmony Project of theAmerican Composers Forum.


significant. She performs with numerous orchestras throughout Colorado and is currently in her fifteenth season with the Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra. She enjoys a career that combines both performing and teaching strings, performing on a 130-year-old Neuner-Hornsteiner cello. She is listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, was one of seven teachers selected in Douglas County for the 2004 Thank a Teacher Award, and has received the Outstanding Teacher Award numerous times in Douglas County. In 2005, the Colorado Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, Inc. inducted Ms. Meyers as the Colorado ASTA Orchestra Outstanding Teacher of the Year. Ms. Meyers is an advocate for Music Education in Colorado as well as across the United States and is currently “running for” a National ASTA Member-at-Large position. At the Albuquerque, NM National ASTA Conference Ms. Meyers was presented the National 2008 ASTA Outstanding State Leadership Award.


Mr.Gagliardo received a Bachelor ofMusic Degree in Music Education from Eastern Illinois University, where he graduated from the University Honors Program Cum Laude, and a Master of Music Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Ball State University. He was named Outstanding Young Alumnus of Eastern Illinois University for 1997. He was appointed President of the Alabama Orchestra Association in February of 1999, a position that he served in until May of 2003, and was a member of the Youth OrchestraDivision Board of the American Symphony Orchestra League from 1995-2001. He served as the President of the


Alabama State Chapter of ASTA from March of 2004 until May of 2006, and was named Outstanding String Teacher for the State ASTAChapter in 2007.


Mr. Gagliardo is the founder and CEO of WonderDog Press andDaphne RooMusic, publishing houses which specialize in the publication of children’s literature and orchestralmusic for community, youth, and school orchestras. Mr. Gagliardo is also active in the community, having served as the President of the Board Of Directors of the Humane Society of Etowah County from 2005 to 2008. He resides in Glencoe, Alabama, with his wife. Meleia. and their four dogs, Daphne, Lady, Jake, and Gracie.


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