SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR

Annunziata Tomaro joined the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music faculty as adjunct instructor in 2007, while she completes her doctorate of musical arts degree. Her previous studies were at The Juilliard School, the University of Michigan and the University of New Mexico. She is founder of The Phoenix Ensemble, a professional chamber orchestra based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As music director of the ensemble, Tomaro conducted a wide range of repertoire including many contemporary works. Her collaborations were with world-renowned artists such as William Bolcom, the duo Gemini, and Peter Sparling. Tomaro’s opera productions include The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Werther, Stravinsky’s Mavra, Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Segreto di Susanna, Conrad Susa’s Dangerous Liaisons and Enid Sutherland’s Daphne and Apollo Remade. Tomaro has been the assistant conductor for Maestri Mark Gibson, Larry Rachleff and Steven Mercurio at the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy. Tomaro was the recipient of the Presser Music Award at CCM and the Robinson Scholarship, presented by the Conductor’s Guild. She was a Fulbright scholar to Berlin, Germany.

CONCERT ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR

Active in music education for 15 years, Jeremy Mulholland is currently in his tenth year as the musical director of the Heritage Area String Program, an after-school string program which serves Danville, and Boyle and surrounding counties by offering string classes, orchestra, and chamber music opportunities for students.  Mr. Mulholland has been on the faculty of both Asbury and Centre colleges, and is currently serving his fifth year as full-time professor of violin and viola at Eastern Kentucky University.  In addition to his duties as coordinator of violin and viola studies, he is also in his second year as the Director of Orchestral Studies at EKU, with responsibilities that include conducting the EKU Symphony Orchestra and the EKU String Orchestra.  Mr. Mulholland is the the conductor for the Lexington Community Orchestra. 

Mr. Mulholland has enjoyed eight years as a faculty member and conductor at the Stephen Collins Foster music camp in Richmond, and remains active as an adjudicator for orchestral auditions and solo and ensemble events in the Central Kentucky Area.

 Mr. Mulholland received a Bachelor of Arts degree in violin performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Theory and Composition from Asbury College, then went on to receive a Master of Music degree in violin performance from the University of Louisville.

In addition to his teaching, Mr. Mulholland has enjoyed performing throughout the area with groups such as the Lexington Philharmonic, the Huntington Chamber Ensemble, the West Virginia Symphony, and the Owensboro Symphony.  He has performed solo with the Lexington Community Orchestra, and has twice been a featured soloist for the Crawford Whitworth Concert series.

PREPARATORY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR - Winds

An experienced music instructor with 20 years teaching as a college professor, Steven Pederson is currently the orchestra director and clarinet teacher at Centre College, and is on the faculty at Indiana Wesleyan University.  He has also taught at Transylvania University.  In addition, Mr. Pederson serves as conductor of the Preparatory Orchestra and woodwind sectional teacher with the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras.

 Prior to moving to Lexington, Mr. Pederson was Director of Bands at the University of Louisiana for 10 years where he directed the entire wind program, including the wind ensemble, three concert bands and the marching band.  He has also held full time faculty positions at Alderson-Broaddus College, the University of Central Arkansas, and the University of Dayton.  He received his B.M.E. degree from Wartburg College, his M.A. degree in Clarinet Performance from the University of Iowa, and has completed the course work for the D.M.A. degree in Conducting from the University of Kansas.

 Mr. Pederson is a Professional Musician and Music Consultant.  He is also a writer, completing two books on educational instruction and design.  He compiled and wrote marching and concert band books for classes and instruction at the University of Louisiana.  He continues to be in demand as a conductor, clinician and adjudicator.

 Steven Pederson lives with his family on a working thoroughbred horse farm in Lexington.

PREPARATORY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR - Strings

Nancy Campbell has served as the Orchestra Director at the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) Bluegrass since 1997 and also serves as orchestra teacher at Meadowthorpe Elementary School in Lexington. A native of New Jersey, Nancy came to Lexington in 1985 after having spent six years in Bozeman, Montana.

She is a string faculty member for the Music for All Summer Symposium in Illinois and was a consultant for the Music Expressions series published by Alfred.  Presently, she serves as President of the Kentucky Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, Inc. and Chair-elect for the Kentucky Music Educators Association Orchestra Division. Additionally, she serves as a Master Teacher in the University of Kentucky String Project. This summer, she will act as an instructor for Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts.

For her creative use of electric instruments, technology, and alternative styles, Nancy was named Yamaha Certified String Educator, which recognizes string teachers using innovative ideas and pushing the boundaries of string education.

As a violist, Nancy performs as an extra player for the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra and maintains an active private studio. Along with fellow violists Joanna Binford and Dale Jones, L.O.V.E. (Lexington’s Original Viola Ensemble) was formed in 2007. The group of more than 20 viola students aged 10 to 18 from various public, private and home schools recently performed a commissioned work, “Kentucky Unbridled Suite”, at the Kentucky Music Educators’ Conference in Louisville.

She received her Bachelor of Music Education from Northern Illinois University where she studied with Nobuko Imai and the Vermeer Quartet She completed her Masters degree at the University of Kentucky and is presently working toward Rank I certification. Nancy plays erhu (Chinese fiddle) with the UK “Silk and Bamboo” Ensemble.

Nancy is married to Professor James Campbell, director of Percussion Studies in the UK School of Music. They have two sons, Colin, a graduate student in Jazz and Improvisation at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and Sean, a student of Criminal Justice and member of the Hockey team at Eastern Kentucky University.

JAZZ ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR

Mark Clodfelter is the Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kentucky. He is a performer of international acclaim who has been recently described by Classical Voice North Carolina as “…a stellar world-class trumpeter who’s dazzling playing wowed the audience.”  As a soloist, Mark has appeared throughout the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Russia and Greece with orchestras, wind ensembles, brass ensembles, jazz bands, and in recital. This year he will make his solo debut in The Peoples Republic of China as part of the events preceding the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

One of the most active performers in the Southeast, Mark can be heard as Principal Trumpet of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, the Trade Winds (Tamp Fl.) and Co-Principal of the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra (KY). His commercial affiliations include split lead with the DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra and the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra. Mark is a founding member and guest artist with the Giannini Brass and a Yamaha Performing Artist. In addition he serves as Co-Conductor of the Blue Grass Area Jazz Ambassadors and Conductor of the  Central Kentucky Youth Jazz Orchestra.

Mr. Clodfelter has recorded extensively in styles ranging from classical to rock including the 2004 Grammy Nominated “Self Contained” with the UK Jazz Ensemble. He has also appeared with such headliners as The O' Jays, Gladys Knight, Mannheim Steam Roller, the Moody Blues, the Lettermen, Doc Severinson, Bob Mintzer, Frank Mantooth, Lou Rawls, and Ray Charles.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Kentucky, Mark was Instructor of Trumpet and Director of Jazz Band as a member of the faculty at Mars Hill College, and has served on the teaching staff of the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps. Mark has also held positions with the Greensboro Symphony, the Western Piedmont Symphony, the Salisbury Symphony, the Greenville (SC) Symphony and the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mr. Clodfelter holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College and a Master of Music Degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Conductor John Nardolillo has appeared with more than twenty of the country's leading orchestras, including the Seattle Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Columbus Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, the Oregon Symphony and the Honolulu Symphony. This past season he also conducted concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and Carnegie Hall in New York.

Mr. Nardolillo made his professional conducting debut in 1994 at the Sully Festival in France during a Bastille Day Concert, and has since made conducting appearances throughout the United States, and in France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He has led major American orchestras in subscription series concerts, summer and pops concerts, education concerts and tours, and for television and radio broadcasts. He has been heard in on National Public Radio, and in concert on Minnesota Public Radio.

In 1997 Mr. Nardolillo created a new project with folk legend Arlo Guthrie, fusing traditional American folk music with the American classical style of Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. A complete evening of orchestral settings of American folk music are performed by Mr. Nardolillo and Mr. Guthrie with orchestras around the country in concerts that also feature performances of American orchestral works by Copland, Bernstein and Gershwin. The project was performed on the television program "Evening at Pops" with the Boston Pops Orchestra, a concert that has been broadcast on PBS stations nationwide periodically since 1998. In July 2001 the project returned to the Boston Pops for the "POPS goes the Fourth!" concert, seen by a live audience of over 500,000 on Boston's Charles River Esplanade, and millions more around the country on national television.

Mr. Nardolillo is the Founder and Music Director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, an orchestra of top young professional musicians, drawn from the ranks of the world's leading orchestras, who travel from around the United States, Canada and Europe to perform together each season. The orchestra has appeared in the leading concert halls in the eastern United States, has been filmed for a television documentary, and has recorded Copland, Bernstein, Barber, Bach and Mozart.

Born in Bend, Oregon, John Nardolillo began his musical training at the age of three on the violin. He earned a Bachelors degree in violin from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Masters degrees in violin and conducting from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

Office Manager

Penny Mazur is starting her third season with CKYO as Office Manager.  Her degree in computer science and management has allowed her to work in various industries - from sending world-class swimmers all over the globe while at the Amateur Athletic Union Headquarters to designing software for the Space Station toilet at United Technologies Corporation.

Volunteer work is a big part of Penny's life.  She has been involved with Girls Scouts for over 14 years as Service Unit Manager, Trainer, and Day Camp Director.  She is also the President of the first chapter in Kentucky of "Prayers and Squares - A Prayer Quilt Ministry".  Penny spent many years backstage with the Lexington Ballet as assistant stage manager and the "legs" of the swan and Mother Ginger in the Nutcracker.

Penny is married to Paul Mazur, IT Manager at Thomas and King.  They have three children - Ryan, an auditor at UKFCU; Rachel, Dance Performance/Pedagogy Major at Point Park University; and Rebecca, a senior and percussionist at Tates Creek High School.

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