AOA All-State 2006 Clinicians
Festival Orchestra, Jason Weinberger, Conductor Recognized as one of a new generation of gifted American conductors, Jason Weinberger has led the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra for three seasons as music director. The orchestra's 75th anniversary season in 2004/5 included a concert with Yo-Yo Ma, and a televised performance of Mahler's Second Symphony. Jason has gained a reputation for a bold, creative programming style that focuses on bringing new American music into the orchestral repertoire. Under his leadership the orches- tra has presented a unique season-long exploration of living American composers and has commis- sioned new works. The WCFSO was one received a rare Music Alive grant, under the leadership of Jason. He is also working to rapidly expand educational initiatives and is active as an educator himself. In upcoming performances he will guest conduct the Kansas City Symphony and will assist at the National Symphony Orchestra, where he began his professional career during the inaugural National Conducting Institute. While in the Washington-Baltimore area Jason directed the orchestra program at the Baltimore School for the Arts (High School), where he founded an adventurous chamber orchestra and conceived and led a number of new initiatives for teach- ing and presenting music to urban youth. Jason attended Yale University, first receiving a bachelor's with academic dis- tinction in intellectual history and then completing a master's degree in clarinet performance under the tutelage of David Shifrin. Jason attended the Peabody Conservatory as a master's student of Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar and has mas- ter class studies at Peabody, the Aspen Music Festival and elsewhere, under such conductors and teachers as Leonard Slatkin, Gerard Schwarz, Michael Tilson Thomas, David Zinman, Don Thulean, Harold Farberman and Murry Sidlin.
String Sinfonietta, John G. Nardolillo, Conductor
John Nardolillo holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from San Diego State University and a Master of Music degree from the University of Oregon. He has studied cello with a number of well known cel- lists including Robert Hladky at the University of Oregon, India Zerbe, then principal cellist of the Oregon Symphony, and David Hoffman, Professor of Cello at Pacific Lutheran University. John has been teaching, conducting and coaching string ensembles for thirty years. John has been a member of the faculty at Chamber Music in the Mountains in Tucson, Arizona, and has spent summers at the Encore School for Strings in Ohio where he studied with Christopher Von Baeyer. He is cellist and man- ager of the Crusma String Quartet, former conductor of the Capital Area Youth Symphony, and founder of The Conservatory Players, an adult chamber orchestra. He currently is a string specialist for the Olympia Public Schools and directs the Capital High School Orchestra, which under his leadership has toured widely in California, Florida, Hawaii, and Canada. John has been a member of the Olympia Symphony Orchestra since 1986, and has also performed with the Gray's Harbor Symphony, and the Central Organ Symphony. John has served as Vice President and President of the Southwest Washington Music Educator's Association, a branch of MENC. He has frequently assisted with the Washington All-State Orchestra, and in 1986 was All-State Orchestra Chairman.
Premiere String Orchestra, Robert J. Seebacher, Conductor Robert Seebacher is native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rob has held many positions at the high school and collegiate level. He earned his Bachelor's Degree (cum laude) in Music Education at Youngstown State University in Ohio. While there, he conducted the University Concert Band as well as several other chamber music groups. He served as the Music Director and Conductor of the Dana Brass Ensemble for five seasons, performing joint concerts with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and Warren Philharmonic.
Rob was the Assistant Conductor and Chamber Music Conductor for the
Youngstown Symphony Youth Orchestra for six years. He was also on the teaching staff of numerous high school bands and orchestras in the Youngstown and Pittsburgh areas. Rob earned his Master's Degree in Orchestral Conducting at Bowling Green State University while serving as an assistant con- ductor of several community and school-based ensembles, and also helped found an A and S class that works to educate the community about the importance of the arts. Rob is on the Staff of Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts where he teaches French Horn, music theory, music history, collaborative art, and conducting. He is also responsible for the coaching and conducting of various mixed chamber ensembles. Rob continues to perform as a French hornist and has played with many ensembles. These ensembles, among others, include The Dana Symphony Orchestra, The Musicians' Concert Band of Pittsburgh, The Opera Circle of Cleveland, The Warren-Packard Band, The Bowling Green Symphony, The Mansfield Symphony and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra under Robert Boudreau. Currently, Rob resides in Lexington, Kentucky and is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts while serving as an assistant conductor to the orchestra and opera departments at the University of Kentucky. His teachers include William B. Slocum, Stephen L. Gage, Emily Freeman Brown, and Gustav Meier.
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