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Jacob Dalager
Dr. Jacob Dalager is an international soloist, recording artist, award-winning composer, and Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Jazz at New Mexico State. He taught at The Catholic University of America, Frostburg State University, and Frederick Community College. His debut solo album, Paradigms, was released in 2021. Dalager made his U.S. concerto debut in 2016 with…
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Jessica Powell Eig
Praised for her “natural expressiveness,” Dr. Jessica Powell Eig has crafted a dynamic and varied career performing on double bass, violone, and viola da gamba. In recent seasons she has appeared with Washington Bach Consort, The Thirteen, National Philharmonic Orchestra, New Orchestra of Washington, American Bach Soloists, Washington Concert Opera, Cathedral Choral Society, REBEL, ARTEK,…
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Alexa Tarantino
Alexa has appeared with a wide variety of ensembles including the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cecile McLorin Salvant Quintet and OGRESSE ensembles, Ulysses Owens Jr.’s Generation Y and Big Band, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, and leads the Alexa Tarantino Quartet.…
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Katie Hagen
Katie Hagen is a versatile violist, performing on both modern and period instruments. She’s recently appeared in performances with West Edge Opera, California Bach Society, Chora Nova, and the Stockton Symphony, among others. Katie completed concurrent undergraduate degrees in viola performance and physics at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University and…
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Kevin Holzman
Kevin Michael Holzman serves as the Director of Wind Studies and Head of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting and the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music. His academic responsibilities include teaching graduate conducting and related courses, and advising and mentoring of wind conducting students in CCM’s Masters and Doctoral programs. Holzman also…
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Lien Boon Hua
A prizewinner of numerous competitions, Lien Boon Hua is the Artistic Director of Wayfarer Sinfonietta, and leads OpusNovus, the contemporary music ensemble at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore. He was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice from 2016 to 2018. He also served as Assistant…
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Lisa French
Lisa Dixon French is the Executive Director of Nashville Ballet. Ms. French moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2015 following a successful tenure as Executive Director of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra. Ms. French went to Portland from her role as the Chief Operating Officer of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Ms. French is also a graduate…
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Malinda Wagstaff Metro
Malinda Wagstaff is a warmhearted first year graduate student at Indiana University where she studies with Carol Vaness. She achieved her bachelor’s degree at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Ruth Hennessy. In the spring of 2020, Malinda performed the role of Angel More in The Mother of Us All with the…
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McKenzie Warriner
McKenzie Warriner is a Toronto-based soprano bringing music and text to life in a variety of contexts. McKenzie has performed with early music presenters including the Rochester Early Music Festival and Eastman Bach Cantata Series, and Winnipeg’s Camerata Nova. McKenzie has performed roles including Bessie Brent in “The Shop Girl”, Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor”,…
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Melissa Ngan
Melissa Ngan is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Composers Orchestra (ACO). From 2005-2021 she was the founder and CEO of Fifth House Ensemble, a Chicago-based organization. Ngan has over fifteen years of experience in programming and curation; arts administration; diversity, equity, and inclusion practices; professional development and entrepreneurship in the…
