Music Director
Karl
Hinterbichler is an internationally known pedagogue in low brass
and professor at UNM. Dr. Hinterbichler holds a BM degree in Music History
and Literature and a MM in Wind Instruments, both from the University of
Michigan and a DMA from the University of North Texas.
He has performed as principal trombone with the National Repertoire Orchestra, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Opera Southwest and the Orchestra of Santa Fe. He was also a member of the Florida Symphony for two seasons and has performed with the Dallas Symphony (on bass trumpet and tenor tuba), the Eric Hawkins Dance Company and the Santa Fe Opera. He is currently principal trombone with Opera Southwest and the New Mexico Brass Quintet.
As a pedagogue Dr. Hinterbichler has given master classes, lectures and lessons throughout the United States, in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Russia, Hungary, Italy, Australia and China. He has published arrangements, editions and various articles and is currently an assistant editor for the INTERNATIONAL TROMBONE ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, in charge of new music listings, and programs.
Upon joining HMNM as Music Director Dr. Hiterbichler responded: "I am excited to be serving as music director. The program has already made a huge impact on young students in our state and we hope to continue and build on that success. I have been very impressed with the dedication and energy of the board of directors, so ably led by Brookes McIntyre, with the goal to reach out to students throughout New Mexico."
Hey, Mozart! Founder
Alejandro
Rutty, University of North Carolina at Greensboro professor,
composer and arts advocate, is the creator and developer of the Hey,
Mozart! child composer project.
A graduate of UNM, Alejandro Rutty’s compositional output includes orchestral, chamber and mixed-media music, arrangements of Argentine traditional music, and innovative outreach musical projects.
Rutty’s compositions and arrangements have been played by the Minnesota
Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Indianapolis Chamber
Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, National Symphony Orchestra
of Brazil, among other groups. Recordings of his music have been released
by Capstone Records, Arizona University Recordings, and ERM Media. Rutty’s
music has been published by Effiny Music, SCI/European American Music, and
Ricordi.
Founder and Artistic Director of the Hey, Mozart! Project, Rutty was Artistic
Director of the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival for the 2006 and 2007
seasons. Alejandro Rutty (Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo) is currently Assistant Professor
of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. www.alejandrorutty.com
Pianist and composer Jared
Isaac Aragón has
been immersed in music his whole life. As a child, he grew up in his parents’ music
store in Belen, NM where he received his first musical instrument: a glockenspiel.
Eventually, he began taking piano lessons under Mrs. Bobbi Carbajal and Dr. Dawn
Chambers. Under their guidance, he soon discovered his love of composing. Now
a student at Eastern New Mexico University, majoring in Music Education with
a minor in Music Composition, Aragón has written works for several soloists
and ensembles including Welsh harpsichordist Christopher Lewis, ENMU’s
University Choir, and Dance Theater Southwest. Aragón works as an accompanist
at ENMU and serves as summer organist and musical director at Belen First Presbyterian
Church.
Jeremy
S. Bakken was born in 1981 in Wisconsin, USA. He holds a Bachelor of Science
in Music and Mathematics from Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, and is
currently pursuing a Master of Music in Composition and Choral Conducting from
the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Bakken specializes in choral
composition and arranging; his works have been performed by high school choirs,
church choirs, national conference choirs, and university choruses. His
compositions and arrangements are currently available from Pavane Publishing
and Northwestern Publishing House, or at www.jsbakken.com.
Born in London, UK, Dawn Chambers has lived in New Mexico since 1981, apart from three years completing her doctorate at Stony Brook University. There she won several awards and helped co-ordinate over 250 concerts worldwide during the week-long Music for Peace festival.
Chambers' main compositional interest is providing frameworks for collaborative work, such as "How We Say Goodbye to our Children" which was premiered in 2010 - the first time a majority Native ensemble had been featured at the Robb Composers' Symposium. She is delighted to further explore collaboration with Miss Katarina Blakeslee as part of the "Hey, Mozart!" initiative.
Dr. Chambers is a resident caretaker for a State Wildlife Management Area. Together with archaeologists and conservationists she is developing a pre-Columbian garden exhibit, while monitoring plants and animals in the aftermath of devastating wildfires. Most of her time is spent trying to outwit rabbits.
Bradley Ellingboe has led a wide-ranging career in the world of singing, including accomplishments as a choral conductor, soloist, composer, scholar and teacher. As a choral conductor he has led festival choruses in 38 states and 12 foreign countries. As a bass-baritone soloist he has sung under such conductors as Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, and Sir David Willcocks. Ellingboe has over 110 pieces of music in print, including his largest work, the Requiem for chorus and orchestra, which made its Carnegie Hall debut with the composer conducting in 2010. For his scholarly work in making the songs of Edvard Grieg more accessible to the English-speaking public, he was knighted by the King of Norway in 1994. As a teacher, the University of New Mexico Alumni Association named him Faculty of the Year in 2008.
Jonah Elrod is a composer, conductor, and music educator from Phoenix, Arizona. While in Arizona, Jonah instructed elementary, middle, and high school bands, and spent two years at the University of Arizona as a graduate student studying instrumental conducting. He currently resides in Albuquerque, is a student of composition, and serves as an instructor of music theory at the University of New Mexico.
Greg
Fant is currently serving as Associate Vice President and Deputy Provost
at New Mexico State University. Prior to this appointment, he served as Interim
Dean, Associate Dean, and Assistant Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences.
From 1999-2007, he was the Academic Department Head of Music. He joined the
faculty at NMSU in 1990 as Associate Director of Bands teaching courses in
Instrumental Music Education along with his ensemble work. Under his direction,
the Pride Marching Band made nine recordings, performed exhibition shows
at numerous marching festivals, played for several professional football
games, and performed for the Prince of Monaco. His articles have appeared
in the New Mexico Musician and the Music Educators Journal. He has completed
several arrangements for the Pride Marching Band, composed theme music for
KRWG-TV programming, and recently completed a new transcription for the Las
Cruces All-City Middle School Honor Band.
AYS Conductor Gabriel Gordon, originallyfrom New York City, made his professional
conducting debut with the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea in 1998, and
soon formed the Chamber Orchestra at Tower Hill with players from the New
York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New Jersey Symphony.
Also a violinist, he currently plays with both the Santa Fe Symphony and the New Mexico Symphony, and has performed on the Placitas Artist Series, as well as with Serenata of Santa Fe, The Church of Beethoven, and Chatter, a Chamber Ensemble. Mr. Gordon has also guest conducted the Santa Fe Symphony and Chatter.
"I am a much better conductor for having spent those years in a string quartet. Rather than just beating time and giving orders, I feel a conductor is much more like a chamber music partner with the orchestra.”
Verallen (Vera) Kleinhenz has been a choir director, organist, music instructor,
composer, and arranger for over 30 years. After studying with Dr. Lee Kjelson
at the University of Miami, she went on to become the Music Director for
Air Force and Navy chapel choirs in California, Mississippi, Arizona, Guam
and New Mexico where she now resides. She is the full-time Music Director
/Organist at Asbury United Methodist Church in Albuquerque and directs
the Albuquerque Civic Chorus. Vera helped form a new chorus named Expressions
of Joy, whose members are mentally, physically and emotionally challenged
adults. Vera’s SATB, SAB and 2 pt arrangement of the official state
song, ‘O Fair New Mexico’, will be featured in school districts
throughout New Mexico during the 2012 Centennial. She received her Bachelor
of Arts in Music at the University of New Mexico in 2009 and will receive
a Masters in Choral Conducting in 2012.
Duncan MacIvor was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He began taking piano lessons at the age of 6 and has continued to pursue his love of music throughout his life. He is currently studying to attain his Bachelor’s in Music Theory and Composition from the University of New Mexico.
Mariano Morales has received numerous commissions and his works have been performed by distinguished ensembles such as: the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra,among others. Recent commissions include (“Ilusiones”) a work for orchestra performed in at New York’s Central Park, and a Double Concerto for Clarinet and Violin to be performed by Guillermo Figueroa (violin) and Ricardo Morales (Principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra). In September 2011, the Houston Symphony will perform two of his orchestral works. Mr. Morales was invited as guest lecturer and offered Master Classes in composition, jazz composition and arranging at Indiana University in Bloomington and Indianapolis, Purdue University, University of Michigan, Cincinnati University, Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, the Stony Brook College in New York, the Aruba Cultural Foundation in Aruba, and as part of the American Composers Orchestra Festivals, among others.
In his fourth year of study at Eastern New Mexico University, Franklin Piland is currently working toward a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education, Instrumental, with minor emphasis in Music Technology and Music Composition. Franklin is a student of Mr. Dustin Seifert and has performed as the principal tubist for the Eastern New Mexico University Wind Symphony (2008-present).
Franklin currently holds the position of President in the Beta Lambda Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi and President of ENMU's student chapter of the National Band Association.
As composer and arranger, he has had multiple pieces premiered and recorded by ENMU faculty and students. His arrangement of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was recorded by the ENMU Wind Symphony in 2009. Throughout his four years at ENMU he has been commissioned for numerous works for a wide variety of ensembles; most recently for wind ensemble, marching band, and his Reverse Concerto for Soprano Saxophone.
Mark Scott earned undergraduate degrees from the University of North Texas, and a graduate degree from the University of New Mexico, studying conducting and trombone.
Mark judged the 2010 International Trombone Festival quartet competition, as each quartet played his new work Quartet Stories. Other accomplishments include the Eastern Trombone Workshop’s National Classical Solo Competition (2009); winner of the International Trombone Festival quartet competition playing his own work, Spring Lightning (2008); finalist in the UNT concerto competition (2007) and winner with his orchestral work Design (2006). He has conducted the UNT Symphony, Chamber and Repertoire Orchestras, and the Wind Symphony; and performed with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.
Mark is now an active freelance trombonist, composer, and conductor, maintaining a large trombone studio in Keller, Texas. He conducts the orchestra at Trietsch Memorial United Methodist Church in Flower Mound, Texas. dominantshadow.com
J.D.
Shaw s currently Professor of French Horn at the University of New Mexico
and was, formerly, the French hornist with the internationally acclaimed Boston
Brass where he was creative director, music arranger and co-owner of the ensemble.
J.D. is an active solo artist and travels extensively throughout the United States
as well as many countries in North America, Europe, and Asia. Shaw has recorded
over 15 albums encompassing diverse musical styles from the Classical, Jazz,
and Latin genres. Such record labels include Loft Recordings, Mark Records, and
Summit Records. He has, also, been a featured performer on National Public Radio’s
Performance Today and the CBS Morning Show. Orchestral credits include associations
with the Rochester Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic,
Wichita Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Missouri Symphony,
and the Boston Symphony and Pops. J.D. is an endorsing French Horn artist with
the Conn-Selmer Corporation.
John
Truitt is a career music educator, having taught instrumental music at all levels
in his 40 years of service to the schools of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Co-founder
of the instrumental program at Albuquerque Academy in the 1970’s, Mr. Truitt
also taught for the Albuquerque Public Schools and the University of New Mexico.
He has performed with many noted flamenco artists including Jose Fajardo “Chuscales,” Pedro
Cortes, La Tati, Jose Greco, Eva Encinias, Joaquin Encinias, Teo Morca and others.
Mr. Truitt is a member of the Guitar foundation of America Pre-College Education
Committee, Vice President of the Guitar Division of The New Mexico Music Educators
Association, and is recently retired as Director of Bands and instructor of guitar
at Albuquerque Academy. Mr. Truitt is the composer of many works for guitar ensemble,
and has directed the Guitar Orchestra of the New Mexico Classical Guitar Festival
for the last four years.
Eric
Walters is a native of Albuquerque now living in Placitas. He received a
Bachelors Degree in Cello Performance from the University of New Mexico under
Joanna DeKyser, and went on to Indiana University to earn a Masters Degree
in Music Composition.
Upon returning to New Mexico, Eric has been very active as a member of the arts community. He was a featured composer at the UNM’s Composers Symposium and with The New Southwest Orchestra, and has been a composer in residence with the Santa Fe Opera’s Student Produced Opera Program. He was the subject of a Colores! documentary on KNME, composed a commission piece for AYS and is a co-founder of Chatter: A Chamber Ensemble.
A dedicated teacher, he teaches string orchestra in the Rio Rancho district. He has served as the NMMEA’s Vice President of Orchestra and, of course, is a regular orchestral arranger and judge for Hey, Mozart!
César Avilés is a violinist/composer born in Puerto Rico.
As a composer he was invited to play his Caprice No.1 for violin solo on
Fox News in a commercial for the Eastern Music Festival in 2007. César
is an active orchestral and chamber musician with a very strong interest
in film music.
Sabine Wilden is a multidisciplinary artist from Germany. She is currently
a triple major at the University of New Mexico, pursuing master´s degrees
in solo and collaborative piano, as well as in theory and composition.
The two musicians very much enjoyed working together on the orchestration for Katya Makhnina’s Hey, Mozart! melody.
Chatter, Ensemble Music New Mexico, seeks to promote the performance of and appreciation for contemporary music through the innovative programming of chamber music and chamber orchestra repertoire, educational activities that promote the creation of music, and outreach initiatives to further the understanding of today’s composers and their individual styles.
David Felberg and Eric Walters founded Chatter in 2002. Chatter under the direction of David Felberg recorded the 2008 Hey, Mozart! CD at the University of New Mexico School of Music, Keller Hall. The ensemble offers a program of three concerts each year.
For more information: www.chatterchamber.org
Dolce Suono means Sweet Sound (in Italian) and it is a wonderful way to
describe the singing of the mixed chorus from the University of New Mexico.
Dolce Suono is a choir comprised of students from the Univeristy of New Mexico
and for the past three years has been the choir in residence for a number
of arts organizations including the Lifesongs Project (Little Globe, Santa
Fe Opera) and the Santa Fe Pro Musica. It began in 2006 with 16 singers and
now features 70 voices.
This year Dolce Suono will travel with the UNM Music Department to sing in
the New York Premiere of the Claussen Requiem, written in 2011 to celebrate
100 years of choral singing at UNM.
For more information: www.unmchoirs.org/dolce-suono
Under the direction of Chad Simons, the University of New Mexico's Symphonic Band provides a place for the serious player to explore classic and contemporary repertoire for the wind band. This group is open by audition to talented musicians regardless of academic major. The ensemble performs four to five concerts per year on campus and also performs at New Mexico high schools.
For more information: www.unm.edu/~bands/SymphonicBand.html
