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Guest Artists 2009-2010

 

Alicia Telford

French horn

Sunday, December 13, 2009
"Chicago: My Kind of Town"
McAfee Center, Saratoga

Alicia Telford, a California native, is an alumni of The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco State University and the Tanglewood Festival. She a member of the Faculty at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Medanos College.

Ms Telford is a well-known free-lance musician and Instructor of Horn in the Bay Area. Some of her many performing credits include: extra horn with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet orchestras; a Brazilian tour with the Womens' Philharmonic; a national tour of the Broadway musical Les Miserables; a five-year run of Phantom of the Opera; and quite a few shorter runs of touring Broadway musicals in San Francisco in the past 18 years.

Ms. Telford is a member of the Oakland-East Bay Symphony, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and West Bay Opera Company, as well as performing with many of the regional orchestras in the Bay Area. Her greatest enjoyment comes from playing and coaching chamber music, which she does regularly, performing with the Golden Gate Brass Quintet, the Bellavente Quintet and coaching at the Humboldt Chambermusic Workshop every summer in Arcata, CA. When not performing on the Horn, Ms. Telford enjoys reading, traveling, gardening and running in the hills behind her home in Berkeley, CA with her musician husband, Jeff, and their two mutts!

 

Aaron Lington

Baritone saxophone

Sunday, December 13, 2009
"Chicago: My Kind of Town"
McAfee Center, Saratoga

Aaron Joseph Lington received his BM in music education from the University of Houston, Moores School of Music, and both his MM in jazz studies and DMA in saxophone performance from the University of North Texas where he studied with James Riggs.

Dr. Lington was a member of the world-renowned and Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas for three years. He has performed with several well-known artists including Maria Schneider, Bo Diddley, Pete “El Conde” Rodriguez, Bob Brookmeyer, the Count Basie Orchestra, and the Temptations. Dr. Lington has performed throughout the United States and Europe, and gave a series of jazz concerts in the Czech Republic in March 2002. As a classical soloist, he has performed with the Grinnell College Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Eric McIntyre, the San José State University Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Edward Harris, the Silicon Valley Symphony under the direction of Paul Polivnick, and has premiered new works for saxophone at North American Saxophone Alliance conventions in March 2002, February 2006, and April 2008 and also at the World Saxophone Congress in July 2003. The San José Mercury News praises Dr. Lington’s playing as “revelatory…he obviously relishes the beautiful, blustery bark of his instrument…” and that he possesses a “…finely honed melodic sensibility…”

 

Eugene Migliaro Corporon

Guest Conductor

Friday, December 18, 2009
"Midwest Clinic"
McCormick Place West, Chicago

Eugene Migliaro Corporon is the conductor of the Wind Symphony and Regents Professor of Music at the University of North Texas. As Director of Wind Studies he guides all aspects of the program, including the masters and doctoral degrees in Wind Conducting.

Mr. Corporon is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach and Claremont Graduate University. His performances have drawn praise from colleagues, composers and critics alike. Having recorded over 600 works, including many premieres and commissions, his groups have released over 100 recordings on the Toshiba/EMI, Klavier, Mark, CAFUA, Donemus, Soundmark, GIA, Albany, Naxos, and Centaur labels. These recordings, two of which have appeared on the Grammy nomination ballot, are aired regularly on radio broadcasts throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Mr. Corporon maintains an active guest-conducting schedule and is in demand as a conductor and teacher throughout the world. He is Past President of the College Band Directors National Association and a member of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles International Board. He has been honored by the American Bandmasters Association and by Phi Beta Mu with invitations to membership.

 

Timothy Harris

Guest Conductor

Sunday, December 13, 2009
"Chicago: My Kind of Town"
McAfee Center, Saratoga

Timothy Harris is Director of Instrumental Studies at Chabot College, where he guides all aspects of the multi-faceted instrumental music program. His teaching responsibilities include directing the Wind Symphony, Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds and teaching music history. Prior to his appointment, Harris served as a conducting associate at the University of North Texas where he was a student of Eugene Migliaro Corporon.
Mr. Harris is in constant demand as a guest conductor and percussionist and has performed at the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. As a jazz drummer, Professor Harris has performed with Jiggs Wigham, Nancy Wilson, Michael Wolff, Chuck Findley, Matt Finders, Jon Faddis and Pete Escovedo. Professor Harris is published in Teaching Music Through Performance in Band as the author of research guides on the works of Larry Daehn, Jan Van der Roost, Samuel Hazo, Christopher Tucker and Frank Ticheli. In 2007, Harris was awarded the Gilbert T. Freitas Award for Achievement in Music Education by CMEA Bay Section. Last fall, he was honored to receive the Chancellor’s Award for outstanding teaching at Chabot College.

 

Dale Clevenger

French horn

Friday, December 18, 2009
"Midwest Clinic"
McCormick Place West, Chicago

Principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since February 1966, Dale Clevenger is a versatile musician in many areas, including chamber music, jazz, commercial recordings and solo performances. His mentors were Arnold Jacobs and Adolph Herseth.

Before joining the CSO, Clevenger was a member of Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air directed by Alfred Wallenstein; he also was principal horn of the Kansas City Philharmonic. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras worldwide, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. He has participated in many music festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Florida Music Festival in Sarasota, the Affinis Music Festival in Japan and the Marrowstone Music Festival in Bellingham, Washington. He also participates in the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival. In addition, he has worked with the European Community Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, and participated in several International Horn Society Workshops.

 

Joseph Alessi

Trombone

Sunday, February 21, 2010
"From Sea to Shining Sea"
McAfee Center, Saratoga

Joseph Alessi was appointed Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic in the spring of 1985. He began musical studies in his native California with his father, Joseph Alessi, Sr. As a high school student in San Rafael, California, and was a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony before continuing his musical training at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to joining the Philharmonic, Mr. Alessi was second trombone of The Philadelphia Orchestra for four seasons, and principal trombone of L’Orchestre symphonique de Montreal for one season. In addition, he has performed as guest principal trombonist with the London Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall led by Pierre Boulez.

Mr. Alessi is currently on the faculty of The Juilliard School; his students now occupy posts with many major symphony orchestras in the U.S. and internationally. Further information about Mr. Alessi can be found on his website, www.slidearea.com.

 

Galen Lemmon

Percussion

Sunday, March 28, 2010
"The Beat Goes On"
McAfee Center, Saratoga

Galen Lemmon has performed and taught in the Bay area for over 35 years. He was awarded a position in the San José Symphony when only 19 years old, and just three years later was named Principal Percussionist with the same orchestra. He is Principal Percussionist with Ballet Silicon Valley and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra.

Mr. Lemmon has performed with every professional orchestra in the Bay area, including touring and recording with the San Francisco Symphony. He has participated numerous times at California Music Educators Conferences in the Bay area as well as Sacramento and Los Angeles.

Mr. Lemmon is coordinator of percussion studies at San Jose State University. He is Director of the U Music Percussion Program in Fremont, CA and rehearses six percussion ensemble a week in addition to a heavy teaching schedule. His high school and jr. high school students are always among the top in the state of California. He is a past California Artist-in-Residence grant recipient.