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| 13 Take Me Out To The Ballgame with The Toledo Mud Hens |
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19 Young Artists Competition Classics IX - New World Symphony |
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Dr. Kenneth Thompson
Artistic Director & Conductor
Kenneth Thompson currently serves as associate professor andassistant dean in the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State Universityin Bowling Green, Ohio. His responsibilities include conducting ensembles inthe band area, teaching graduate conducting and repertoire and undergraduateinstrumental methods. Additionally, he serves on the conducting staff ofboth the Detroit Symphony Orchestra where he directs the Detroit SymphonyOrchestra Civic Wind Symphony and the DSO Civic Philharmonic Orchestra,and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, where he serves as Artistic Director of theToledo Symphony Youth Orchestras and Conductor of the TYO Philharmonicand Concert Orchestras. A graduate of Limestone College (SC) with a doublemajor in music education and trumpet, Thompson received a master's degree inmusic education and doctorate in band conducting from The University of Iowa.Prior to his BGSU appointment, he held the position of associate conductorwith the St. Louis Wind Symphony and Chamber Winds, and now serves as PrincipalGuest Conductor. He has conducted performances for numerous regionalconventions, live radio broadcasts and multiple CD recordings.
Maintaining a reputation as both a scholar and performer, Dr. Thompson'sresearch is published in journals and research publications throughout theworld. He has also appeared as a guest conductor, lecturer or clinician for numerousstate, regional, national and international conferences. In high demandas a guest conductor and lecturer, Thompson maintains an active schedulewith engagements throughout the United States, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore,Thailand, Japan and China.
Wasim Hawary
Sinfonietta Director
Mr Wasim Hawary, a lifelong resident of the Toledo area, graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1998 with a degree in music education.While at BGSU, Wasim held the position of Principal Bassist in the Philharmonia.He has continued his education at the Vandercook School of Music inChicago, Illinois. Wasim has been teaching music in the Toledo Public Schoolssince 1998 and is currently the orchestra director at Start High School. Heserved as the Assistant Director of the TYO from 1999-2005 and also taughtboth guitar and piano at Owens Community College. Wasim returned to theTYO in 2009 as the director of the Toledo String Sinfonietta and, in just oneyear, has had the pleasure of watching the group size double and expand intothe Toledo Youth Symphonic Orchestra.
Wasim actively performs in the region with various ensembles on his maininstrument, the bass. When not on stage or in classroom, Wasim also spends agreat deal of time in various recording studios writing, performing and producingall genres of music. His music has been used in Feature Films and on theUSA network.
jamie sampson
Jamie Leigh Sampson currently serves as the Youth Orchestra Coordinator for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. She composes works in many genres including art song, chamber music, large ensemble music, dramatic works (including opera and ballet), and electroacoustic music.
Mrs. Sampson has performed with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, and the Southern Tier Symphony. In 2008, the Beauport Classical Recording label released her work Frozen Landscape for solo bassoon on their CD Fleeting Visions. She frequently commissions works by fellow composers, and her current research focus is contemporary techniques for the bassoon.
Dorothy Coats
Following graduation from Michigan State University, Mrs. Coats taught in several Michigan school systems; among them the then newly consolidated Pennfield Rural Agricultural Schools, where she initiated the band program. In the early 1960s she revitalized the string program in the Okemos Public Schools. During those Michigan years she played double bass with the Battle Creek and Lansing Symphony Orchestras.
After coming to Toledo in 1969, Mrs. Coats lead the orchestra at Central Catholic High School from 1970 to 1974. From 1974 until her retirement in 1992, she taught strings in the Bowsher/Byrnedale district of the Toledo Public Schools.
One of five founding conductors of the Toledo Junior Youth Orchestra, she was named its first permanent conductor in 1979. Mrs. Coats is a long-time supporter of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, a member of the TSO League, and she supports a wide variety of music and arts activities in the Toledo area. Her two granddaughters are double bassists and alumni of the TYO. She was inducted into the Toledo Central Catholic High School Music Hall of Fame in October 2010.
Bob Mirakian
Robert Mirakian is currently completing his fifth season as Music Director of the Richmond Philharmonic, in Richmond, VA. He has been a member of the conducting staff of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra since 2009, conducting Neighborhood and Regional Concert Series performances and Young Peoples’ Concerts, and became Assistant Conductor of Toledo Opera in 2011. A committed educator, Robert has served on the faculties of the University of Toledo and Christopher Newport University, in Newport News, VA, and frequently works as a clinician and adjudicator of middle and high school ensembles.
Robert holds a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as the founding director of the Illini String Orchestra and worked as an assistant conductor to the Quad Cities Symphony. Robert is currently completing his doctorate at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, where he was an Associate Instructor in the school's opera department and studied with David Effron. A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Robert there distinguished himself as a Senior Fellow and Presidential Scholar while serving as Music Director of the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra and establishing the school's first summer orchestra. Other summers have found him working as Conductor and General Manager of the Brevard Music Center's Janiec Opera Company, and Assistant Conductor to the National Repertory Orchestra.
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