AOA All-State 2012 Clinicians
Steven Byess – Festival Orchestra
The extraordinarily varied career of Steven Byess takes him not only to the stages of symphony orchestras and opera companies, but also to the stages and genres of Broadway, jazz and television. He is a dynamic conductor and has been hailed by critics as
Millennium Orchestra, and international artists Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton, and Edward James Olmos, and was broadcast to over 900 million viewers worldwide. Byess is also currently featured in a commercial video taping for the Starz and Encore movie channels, airing internationally. Steven is an ardent wine aficionado, a passionate Shakespeare enthusiast, an avid motorcycle rider, and loves skiing.
Steven Byess
“masterful and brilliant,” “creating the epitome of instrumental elegance” and “a talented interpreter, able to capture the sweep of a piece without neglecting detail.” He is the Music Director of the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra, the
Arkansas
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestras, Guest Conductor for the Ohio Light Opera, and he was formerly the Cover Conductor for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and on the conducting staff at the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is the Music Director Emeritus of the Cobb Symphony Orchestra (Georgia), and the former opera conductor for the Cleveland Institute of Music (Ohio) and California State University - Los Angeles. Mr. Byess received his Bachelor of Music Degree in classical performance and jazz studies from Georgia State University, and his Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied conducting with Louis Lane and Carl Topilow, bassoon with George Goslee and David McGill, violin with Carol Ruzicka, and piano with Olga Radosavljevich. Steven Byess is a passionate advocate for the arts, much sought after for his speeches on the arts, music, music education and general education. An important community leader, he has created and organized frequent and annual collaborations with numerous choruses, chamber music ensembles, and festivals of the arts. He also wrote, co- directed and is featured in a PBS presentation entitled Count On It!, which is designed for children grades K-3, and shows the correlation of music to mathematics. Mr. Byess was chosen by Walt Disney World Entertainment to conduct the 2000 NFL E*TRADE Superbowl Halftime show. The production had over 400 performers, including the Walt Disney World
14 Fawzi Haimor – Sinfonietta String Orchestra Dr. James Bates – Consort String Orchestra
Hailed by the Birmingham News as “a highly capable conductor with a clean, precise beat, dramatic yet easy-to-follow gestures, and overflowing with enthusiasm,” the 28 year old Fawzi Haimor begins his second season as Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Alabama Symphony
Fawzi Haimor
Youth Orchestra (ASYO). In addition to his duties at
the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Haimor maintains an international guest conducting schedule and has recently performed with the Orquestra Nacional do Porto, the Amman Symphony, and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Being very passionate about the education of young musicians, Mr. Haimor is also engaged to conduct at the GMEA’s All College Orchestra Festival in Savannah, Georgia and at the Alabama Orchestra Association’s All-State Festival Sinfonietta String Orchestra in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as well as continuing his work with the ASYO. Mr. Haimor was raised in the Middle East and California. He began playing the violin at the age of 6 and had his first conducting opportunity at the age of 16, premiering his own work for string orchestra which began his path towards a conducting career. In 2005, Mr. Haimor began his studies at the University of California-Davis where he conducted numerous performances of symphony and opera and was also the
As a conductor and teacher, Jim is able to draw on considerable experience as an educator, performer and historian. For 18 years he was a conductor for the Louisville (KY) Youth Orchestras and was music director of that organization from 1996 - 2001. In 1999, he joined the conducting staff of Interlochen Center for the Arts and continues to co-direct the Junior Orchestra program and Junior String Institute there in the summer. Since coming to Otterbein in 2004, Jim has served as the assistant conductor and principal bassist of the Westerville Symphony.
In Fall 2006, he James Bates
began as an assistant conductor for the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras. He has served as a clinician or guest conductor in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, California, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Colorado. He has served as president of Kentucky ASTA and as string coordinator for the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. In addition to string education he is very involved with the Classical Mandolin Society of America and also period instrument performance. Jim is also an active performer on the double bass and various early music instruments such as the viola da gamba, recorder and the medieval vielle. . He has degrees from the University of Louisville (B.M.E.), a Masters in double bass performance from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Kentucky. His wife, Jena Huebner, is a bassist in the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and they have two sons, Ethan five years old, and Gideon who is two.
October/November 2011
founder and first music director of the Davis Summer Symphony, an organization geared towards the education and outreach of classical music to residents of the Davis community. Mr. Haimor earned bachelor’s degrees in both music and neurobiology, physiology, and behavior, and a master’s degree in conducting from the University of California-Davis before completing his second master’s degree in instrumental conducting from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
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