AMEA 2009 Clinicians and Performers Charles Robinson
is Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where his teaching opportunities include the Conservatory Concert Choir, choral conducting and literature, and choral methods. Dr. Robinson currently serves as Chair of the Music Education/Music Therapy division of the Conservatory of Music and Dance. Dr. Robinson earned bachelor and doctoral degrees in choral music education from Florida State University and master degree from California State University, Long Beach. He taught choral and generalmusic inmiddle schools and high schools in Florida, and hasworkedwith singers of all ages from children through senior citizens.Dr. Robinson is an active conductor/clinician for elementary, junior high and high school honor choruses throughout theUnited States, and is often invited to provideworkshops formusic educators. Most recently, he has conducted all-state choruses in Indiana, Maine, Florida,West Virginia and NorthDakota and presentedworkshops at theWyomingMusic EducatorsAssociation and the Illinois Choral Directors Association. An active member of the American Choral Directors Association, he has served as SouthwesternDivision chair for Ethnic&Multicultural Perspectives, College/University Choruses and has served as President of the Missouri Choral Directors Association. The Missouri Choral Directors Association presented Dr. Robinson with the 2000 Luther T. SpaydeAward of Excellence for significant contributions to choral Music in Missouri.
The Etowah Youth Orchestras was founded in October of 1990 to complement the established strings programin theGadsden City Schools by offering beginning strings in selected Etowah County and Attalla City Schools; to establish an intermediate string orchestra and an advanced full orchestra; and to offer and promote private string instruction in Etowah County, Alabama. Under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Michael R. Gagliardo, the Orchestras have presented concerts throughout the United States and abroad, including Carnegie Hall in New York City (two appearances); the Lincoln Center in New York City; the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC (in a performance which was broadcast live over the internet, and is archived at theKennedy Center’s Millennium Stage website). The Orchestras’ have become nationally recognized for their performances of themusic of contemporary composers. Since 1992, the EYO has performed theWorld Premieres of works by Mark Wood, Daniel Dorff, Julia Scott Carey, Terry Williams, James Woodward,
MiriamLense, Sheridan Seyfried, Stella Sung, James Curnow, PhilipKoplow, PaulHanks,AlanMoss, JuliusWilliams, JohnWilson, James Grant, Ralph Whitfield, Ryan Fraley, Mike Gagliardo, Kevin McMahon, Paul Pierce, Johnny Mathis Jr., and Max Chain. The EYO’s commitment to new music has been recognized by theAmerican Symphony Orchestra League with the receipt of tenASCAP Awards “for excellence in the programming and performance of contemporary orchestral music,“ and an additional ASCAPAward in 2006 for American Programming on a Foreign Tour. In addition, in January of 1999 the EYO was selected to represent the State ofAlabama in the ContinentalHarmony Project. The program,whichwas sponsored by theAmerican Composers Forumand funded by the National Endowment For The Arts, was an initiative to create 50 new works of music for the millennium. The EYO’s unique approach to programming and performance has led to concerts with Grammy-winning artist Bruce Hornsby and his band (April 2001); as the opening act for James Taylor at the Oak Mountain Amphitheater in Birmingham (August 2001); with blues harmonica legend Jerry “Boogie”McCain (November 1996&June 1997); andmany other unique performing opportunities, including three live “silent-movie” style performances of How The Grinch Stole Christmas (December 2000, 2001, and 2004). The EYO has also been a part of two documentaries filmed by Alabama Public Television, and has been the subject of two feature articles in Band & Orchestra Product News magazine.
Kye Brackett
hails from Los Angeles and is both an NAACP ImageAward recipient for Best Actor in a musical for Five Guys Named Moe and recently an Emmy award winning choreographer for Barry Manilow’s Music and Passion in which he serves as both choreographer and featured singer. He has performed in the musical RENT and Dreamgirls as well as The Tap Dance Kid and Hey, Mr. Producer. His talents as a singer, dancer, choreographer, songwriter and motivational speaker have given him an amazing platform for sharing his passion for life and for music.
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