AMEA 2006
Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra was founded in 1953 by Mobile Symphony con- ductor Edvard Fendler and was called the Mobile Student Symphony.
MSYO has continued its
mission of providing young instrumental musi- cians in our community an opportunity for growth through learning various kinds of musical literature in a symphony orchestra setting. The members learn challenging music, improve their
reading skills, and as they work with other young artists, they not only develop their individual musical skills, but also learn that participation in a group endeavor offers an experience far greater than one might achieve individually. The fifty members of the 2005 MSYO represent Mobile and Baldwin Counties and Jackson County, Mississippi. They rehearse weekly at the Larkins Music Center under the direction of Orland Thomas. Enen Yu and Guo Sheng Huang serve as string coaches. Members are selected by audition in August of each year and most MSYO members are high school and middle school students. Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra performs formal and informal concerts throughout the year and makes a concert tour at the end of the year. This year, the MSYO performed on board the Carnival Ship Holiday during a spring break cruise, taking orchestral music to non-traditional audiences on the high seas! Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra, a part of the educational programs of Mobile Symphony, is funded in part by grants from the city of Mobile, the Mobile County Commission, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Maggie Snyder, violist, has performed as soloist with orchestras throughout the United States under well-known conductors, including Leonard Slatkin. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center, and has toured internationally as violist with the Metropolitan String Quartet, and nationally with The Rafferty/Snyder Duo. As an orchestral player, she has performed under such leading conductors as James Levine, Yuri Temirkanov, David Zinman, Robert Spano, Leonard Slatkin, James dePriest, Julius Rudel, James Conlon, and Michael Tilson Thomas and at such festivals as the Aspen Music Festival where she was awarded the Time Warner Fellowship. She currently serves as Principal of the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra viola section and of the Meridian Symphony Orchestra viola section in Meridian, Mississippi. In the summer of 2004, Ms. Snyder enjoyed a three week residency with the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in Daejeon, S. Korea, on its sub- scription concerts and tour to Seoul. Ms. Snyder is very active in her community and is currently the President of the Alabama Orchestra Association, a division of AMEA, the Alabama state chapter of MENC. She was born into a musical family and began her serious studies of music at the age of 3. She grew up giving concerts with her family both in the United States and abroad and continues to concertize with her siblings and mother on the yearly family New Years con- cert in Memphis. This year Ms. Snyder and her family received special recognition on their New Years Concert from the Congressman from Tennessee, Harold E. Ford.
Marian Parker
(Ph.D., Auburn University) is Associate Professor and Coordinator of P-12 and Secondary Education Programs at Troy University. She taught high school English for 16 years and coordinated magnet programs for Montgomery (AL) Public Schools for 3 years. She served as Project Director for the Southeastern Regional Resource Center for 3 years. Dr. Parker was Alabama's 1992-93 Secondary Teacher of the Year and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Princeton University in 1993. She received the Paul W. Scheid Research Award from Auburn University in 2000. She is faculty advisor to Troy University's Student Habitat for Humanity.
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Clinicians and Performers
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