Program Selections - Music for All

Festival Evaluators
Ney Rosauro
A native of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, Ney Rosauro has
developed a successful
international career as a
percussionist, composer and
pedagogue. His numerous
compositions and method
books have become standard
in the percussion repertoire and his CDs have been
hailed by critics, percussionists and general music-lovers
alike. He is considered the most popular composer of
percussion concerti, which average 150 performances
each year by orchestras and wind ensembles worldwide.
His Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra is the most
popular percussion concerto of all time and has been
performed over 1,000 times by distinguished orchestras.
As soloist and pedagogue he has done courses, solo
concerts and performances with orchestras in South
America, Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.
For 30 years, he has been teaching percussion at all
educational levels, and since 2000, he is the Director
of Percussion Studies at the University of Miami, FL.
Dr. Rosauro is a Yamaha, Sabian, MalletWorks and
Contemporanea artist and plays exclusively with mallets
and sticks by Vic Firth.
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Richard Auldon
Clark
Butler Symphony Orchestra
conductor Richard Auldon
Clark is one of the youngest
conductors ever to appear
on the stage of Carnegie
Hall. He is also the Director
of Instrumental ensembles.
Recent guest conducting appearances include: the Long
Island Philharmonic, Broadway’s Annie Get Your Gun,
Long-Island Opera, Mercyhurst Opera Company, Mexico
City, Jalapa (Mexico) and “Broadway on Broadway.”
In addition to his conducting, Mr. Clark studied violin
and viola in New York City with Raphael Bronstein,
Ariana Bronne and Lillian Fuchs. Originally from
Apalachin, New York, Mr. Clark is on the faculty of
Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division and is
a former faculty member of Rutgers University’s Mason
Gross School of the Arts.
Mr. Clark founded the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
in 1987, and continues to serve as its director and
conductor. Hailed by the media as an “extraordinary
ensemble of virtuosos,” and credited with providing the
“definitive versions of forgotten American masterpieces,”
the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra has been dedicated
to innovative, exciting and multi-cultural programming.
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Douglas Droste
Douglas Droste is Director of
Orchestral Studies at Oklahoma
State University and Music
Director/Conductor of the
Oklahoma Youth Symphony.
Before joining the faculty at
OSU, he served on the faculties
of Austin Peay State University
in Clarksville, Tennessee, Liberty
Union-Thurston School District in Baltimore, Ohio, and
conducted the Paducah (KY) Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Mr. Droste received degrees from The Ohio State
University and Texas Tech University. He has studied
conducting with Gary Lewis and violin with Michael
Davis and John Gilbert. Additional studies include the
Pierre Monteux School for Orchestral Conductors with
Michael Jinbo, Oregon Bach Festival Conducting Master
Class with Helmuth Rilling, as well as conducting
seminars sponsored by the American Symphony
Orchestra League and Conductors Guild. Mr. Droste
has guest conducted the Tulsa Signature Symphony in
both Classical and Pops series concerts and frequently
conducts high school honor orchestras.
On violin, Mr. Droste has performed with the
orchestras of Oklahoma City, Nashville, Memphis,
Lubbock, Lancaster Festival Orchestra, and Disney’s
All-American College Orchestra. He is also proficient on
viola, trumpet, and has sung in numerous choirs. Mr.
Droste is a founding member of the College Orchestra
Directors Association, and holds memberships in Pi
Kappa Lambda, Conductors Guild, American String
Teachers Association, Music Educators National
Conference, College Music Society, American Symphony
Orchestra League, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Kappa
Kappa Psi.
Franz Anton Krager
American born and trained,
conductor Franz Anton Krager
has been making his artistic
presence felt both at home
and abroad. His affiliations
with leading music festivals
include the Lichfield and
Aberystwyth International
Arts Festivals in the U.K., the
Lunatica, Pianomaster, Sinfonico, and Scarlino Castello
Music Festivals in Italy, and the Texas Music Festival
and Interlochen National Music Camp in the U.S. In
Nov. 2000, Krager served as General & Artistic Director
for “Shostakovich 2000,” a five day international music
festival marking the 25th anniversary of Shostakovich’s
death.
He has led the Houston Symphony; Russian State
Symphony; Romanian and Kazan State Philharmonics;
Honolulu and Florida West Coast Symphonies; Chetham’s
Symphony Orchestra and Musicfest International
Orchestra (U.K.); Symphony Orchestra of Berlin;
Akademisches Orchester Leipzig; Koriyama Symphony
Orchestra (Japan); Riverside Philharmonic (CA); East
and Mid-Texas Symphony Orchestras; Texas and Oakland
(CA) Ballet Companies, Houston Ballet Academy, Sandra
Organ Dance Company (TX); the chamber orchestras of
Stratford “Orchestra of the Swan,” where he was Principal
Guest Conductor and Leamington (U.K.); Orchestra
Sinfonica Citta’ di Grosseto, Guido d’Arezzo, and Orchestra
Sinfonica del Conservatorio Jacopo Tomadini (Italy);
the Missouri Chamber Orchestra; and the Round Top
Festival-Institute.
Krager is both Professor of Conducting and Director
of Orchestras at the University of Houston Moores
School of Music, where he has brought the orchestra
and orchestral conducting program into the realm of
national prominence. Krager is also Artistic Co-Director
for the Virtuosi of Houston, Director of Orchestral Studies
& Resident Conductor for the Texas Music Festival, Artistin-Residence
at The Kinkaid School, and has been a
summer lecturer-in-residence at the Italart Santa Chiara
Study Center, near Florence, Italy, since 1987. Krager’s
musical training included the study of percussion, piano,
theory, composition and conducting with Elizabeth A.H.
Green at the University of Michigan.
Anthony Maiello
Anthony J. Maiello received
both his bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from Ithaca
College in 1965 and 1967
respectively. He also attended
the National Conducting
Institute in Washington D.C.,
Mr. Leonard Slatkin, Musical
Director. Mr. Maiello’s academic experience includes
extensive teaching in the public schools. He served as
professor of music and chairman of performance at
the Crane School of Music Potsdam College of SUNY,
Potsdam, New York, where his duties included advanced
instrumental conducting, applied clarinet, woodwind
and percussion techniques, and the conductor of the
Crane Wind Ensemble.
Under his direction, the ensembles at Crane and
George Mason University have commissioned many
new works, made numerous recordings, and made
appearances statewide and at regional and national
conferences in the United States and Canada. He is
the author of “Conducting: A Hands-On Approach”
and co-author of “The 21st Century Band Method” in
addition to numerous works written for string orchestra.
Mr. Maiello travels widely presenting clinics, lectures
and workshops and guest conducting and adjudicating
numerous music festivals.
He is presently Professor of Music and Director of
Instrumental Studies at George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia, where he conducts the Symphony
Orchestra and Wind Symphony, and teaches several
conducting courses. Mr. Maiello has also served as
Associate Conductor of the McLean Orchestra, McLean,
Virginia, and has been appointed an Honorary Conductor
of the United States Navy Band, Washington, D.C.