AMEA 2009 Clinicians and Performers
Jim Solomon is a National Board Certified Teacher, author and national clinician. He teaches general music classes, chorus, recorder club, and D.R.U.M., a special percussion group for 5th grade students, at R. B. Hunt Elementary in St. Augustine, FL. Each summer he teaches the Orff Level I teacher training course at The Eastman School of Music, and he works with kindergarten-high school students at Eagle Arts Camp. Jimhas been Teacher ofYear for St. Johns County, and has presented at twelve previousAOSA NationalMusic Conferences. Among his seven books areHandsOn, D.R.U.M., Conga Town, and Tropical Recorder (co-author).
The Enterprise High SchoolWind Ensemble is the premiere performing group in the Enterprise band program. It consists of approximately 50 of the top instrumental students at EHS and has consistently rated
superior at all district events it has participated in. This past year the wind ensemble performed at theAlabama State Concert Assessment for only the second time in several decades and received a superior rating for the first time in that same time span. The wind ensemble is one of three concert bands at Enterprise High School. The band programalso has a 180 member marching band, a jazz ensemble, a nationally recognized indoor marching percussion ensemble, a concert percussion ensemble which has performed for numerous events includingAMEAand Alabama All State, and a nationally competitive winter guard.
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 tenASCAPAwards for Programming of Contemporary Music; the 2006ASCAPAward for American Programming on Foreign Tours; and “Best In Class” Awards for the ensembles of the EYO at the 1998 Gateway New Orelans, 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 the American Composers Forum. Under Mr. Gagliardo’s direction, the Orchestras have performed numerous concerts throughout the United States and Great Britain, including domestic tours throughout the Southeast, the Midwest, the MidAtlantic, and the Northeast, and the EYO’s first international tour to England. Other appearances by the ensembles of the EYOinclude theAmericanHonorOrchestra Conference, the Summer Teachers’ Institute of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum, the Arts Advocacy Day 2000 Conference, the National ASTA Conference, the Alabama Music Educators Association Conference; and “by-invitation“ performances at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and for joint sessions of the Alabama State Legislature. He will lead the ensembles of the EYO in performances in Memphis and St. Louis in June of 2009. The Etowah Youth Orchestras have also commissioned and performed the world premieres of 35 works, and have released
four compilation compact disc recordings, plus numerous complete live concert recordings, under Mr. Gagliardo’s leadership. The latest EYO recording, “A Rock And Roll Christmas” featuring the EtowahYouth Symphony Orchestra, was relaeased in November of 2007. Mr. Gagliardo has also been featured with the EYO in two documentaries for Alabama Public Television. In addition to his dutieswith the EtowahYouthOrchestras,Mr.Gagliardo served for nine years asMusicDirector and Conductor of the Jacksonville StateUniversity/CommunityOrchestra and adjunct facultymember at Jacksonville StateUniversity.Mr.Gagliardo is the founder and CEO ofWonder Dog Press and Daphne Roo Music, publishing houses which specialize in the publication of children’s literature and orchestral music for commuinty, 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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