AOA All-State 2011 Clinicians
Festival Orchestra
Wes Kenney was named this past November as the 2009 Outstanding Teacher by the ColoradoAmerican String Teachers Association. He was also awarded the Grand Prize in the Summer 2007 Varna (Bulgaria) International Conducting Competition. He traveled back to Bulgaria in March 2008 for concerts in Vidin and to conduct La Traviata in Stara Zagora. He is currently in his eighth season asMusic Director of the Fort Collins Symphony. In the summer of 2004 he was named to an additional post of Music Director of Opera Fort Collins helping that organization establish a full season of three productions a season. Mr. Kenney is
also
Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras at Colorado State University where he conducts the CSU Symphony and Chamber Orchestra as well as CSU Opera productions. Mr. Kenney helped establish a summer’s master degree program for music educatorswith an emphasis in conducting that is now in its fifth year.Mr. Kenney is a frequent guest conductor of professional and educational ensembles. He has appeared in the past three seasons with theVirginia Symphony, the Symphony of Southeast Texas,
the Vallejo (CA)
Symphony and theNewMexicoAll-State Orchestra. Prior to that, Maestro Kenney has guest conducted at the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Buffalo Philharmonic, returned to the New Mexico Symphony for tours and performances of The Nutcracker and had debutswith theWilliamsburg Symphonia (VA), and theAcadiana Symphony (LA). In six seasons as theVirginia Symphony’s Associate Conductor, Mr. Kenney appeared more than 350 times with that orchestra. He was responsible for the programming and conducting of Subscription, Pops, Family and Young People’s Concerts.
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Fred Geiersbach grew up the eldest of six musical children in East Greenwich, R.I., and attended Williams College, where he majored in English literature and music. After a stint studying jazz in Paris and Copenhagen, he settled in New York City with his wife, Carla. After earning his master’s in music and music education at Teachers College, he taught music at public schools inManhattan and northern Vermont before accepting a position in instrumental music at St. Andrew’s School in Delaware. Fred was involved in groundbreaking research in arts integration as a teaching artist for the Creative Arts Laboratory and as a researcher for the Center for Arts Education, both of which are based at Columbia. In 2000, Fred earned his doctorate with a dissertation on the role of metacognition in instrumentalists’practice strategies. Fred maintains a busy performing life as a flutist, violist and conductor.
Wes Kenney Consort String Orchestra Fred Geiersbach
He is chair of the Delaware All State Orchestra festival and has appeared as a guest conductor of the Berks County (Pa.) Orchestra Festival. He has performed with the Berkshire Symphony (Mass.), the Vermont Philharmonic, the Newark Symphony and the Dover Symphony. He is the chair of the Delaware Solo & Ensemble Festival,which is hosted by St. Andrew’s.
Latoya Lamons received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied violin with Dr. Rachel Vetter Huang and viola withMichelle Lacourse and herMaster of Music degree in conducting with Professor Anthony Maeillo at George Mason University. She has performed with theUniversity SymphonyOrchestra, Mount Vernon Orchestra, and the BESK quartet. She currently performs violawith the Dolce Quartet in Northern Virginia. Ms. Lamons is currently the director of orchestras at Carl Sandburg Middle school in Fairfax County where her groups receive superior ratings atDistrict Orchestra festivals. She returned to Sandburg after leaving to start the orchestra program at South County Secondary School at which she taught from 2005 – 2009. Prior to her departure she taught at Carl Sandburg middle school from 1997 – 2005 during which time her orchestras received consistent superior ratings at District Orchestra Festivals and other festivals taking place in Williamsburg, VA and Hershey, Pennsylvania as well. Her Sandburg advanced symphonic orchestra was selected to perform at the VirginiaMusic Educator’s Association convention in Norfolk, Virginia in November 2004. Ms. Lamons has had the honor of guest conducting the District XI
Junior District
Orchestra,Distrcit IV7th gradeAll- City Orchestra, JMU Spring String Thing,
Regional Latoya Lamons Harrisonburg
the Portsmouth Junior Orchestra,
the All-Regional
Orchestra, Southeastern Regional Orchestra in Chesapeake, VA, Hendersonville
All-County
Orchestra, Greensboro Middle School All-County and the UNC-Greensboro Summer Music Camp Junior and Senior Orchestras 1999 – 2005. Ms. Lamons resides in Springfield, VA and when she is not conducting or playing she enjoys traveling, reading, and being with friends and family.
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