Snow Pond Symphony 2016 Season
Snow Pond Center for the Arts and New England Music Camp presents Snow Pond Symphony, the 2016 season of events, the celebration of their 80th season and more!
Snow Pond Center for the Arts and New England Music Camp presents Snow Pond Symphony, the 2016 season of events, the celebration of their 80th season and more!
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About the Artists<br />
Leon Gregorian,<br />
Distinguished<br />
Professor of<br />
Music Emeritus<br />
was Director of<br />
Orchestras and<br />
Head of the Graduate<br />
Orchestral<br />
Conducting Program<br />
at the Michigan State University<br />
College of Music. He holds degrees<br />
from the New England Conservatory<br />
and Michigan State University. At the<br />
personal invitation of Charles Munch,<br />
music director of the Boston <strong>Symphony</strong><br />
Orchestra, he studied conducting<br />
with celebrated maestros Munch,<br />
Richard Burgin, and Erich Leinsdorf<br />
at the Tanglewood Music Center for<br />
two successive summers.<br />
From 1971-1986, Gregorian was<br />
music director and conductor of the<br />
Owensboro <strong>Symphony</strong> Orchestra in<br />
Kentucky. His work gained national<br />
recognition, and he served on several<br />
national and international boards as<br />
evaluator of programs and conductors<br />
for the Ford Foundation and American<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> Orchestra League. In 1984,<br />
he joined the Michigan State University<br />
music faculty. Under his leadership<br />
the Michigan State University <strong>Symphony</strong><br />
and Chamber Orchestras performed<br />
in prestigious venues across the United<br />
States and abroad to critical acclaim.<br />
His conducting students can be found<br />
across the world in prominent conducting<br />
positions. From 1987-1996, he also<br />
served as the conductor of the Midland<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> Orchestra.<br />
Gregorian has received many<br />
awards and honors throughout his career.<br />
Michigan State University awarded<br />
him the Teacher-Scholar Award, the<br />
Apollo Award, and the Distinguished<br />
Faculty Award, honorary awards from<br />
the State Houses in Massachusetts,<br />
Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan.<br />
Gregorian has guest conducted<br />
leading orchestras in Venezuela,<br />
Mexico, South Korea, Italy, Rumania,<br />
Armenia, Russia, Brazil, Argentina,<br />
Czech Republic, Australia, and the<br />
People’s Republic of China, as well as<br />
many orchestras in the United States,<br />
including the Boston <strong>Symphony</strong>, Boston<br />
Pops, and the Esplanade Orchestra.<br />
He has recorded for PBS, Koch International<br />
Classics, Crystal, and Arizona<br />
University Records. A three-volume, 10<br />
CD set, “Teaching Music Through Performances<br />
in Orchestra,” was recorded<br />
by Gregorian for GIA Publications in<br />
Chicago for worldwide distribution.<br />
Gregorian and the Michigan State<br />
University Chamber Orchestra participated<br />
in the worldwide celebration<br />
of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 250th<br />
birth anniversary, with four concerts in<br />
Salzburg and Vienna to critical acclaim.<br />
In 2012 Leon Gregorian retired<br />
from Michigan State University after<br />
28 years of distinguished service. He<br />
continues to guest conduct orchestras<br />
and present master classes in conducting<br />
throughout the world. Since 1985<br />
Gregorian and his wife Linda, violinist<br />
and violist have been facuty members<br />
at NEMC. Their children Ara, Ani and<br />
Alicia, all professional musicians, were<br />
campers at NEMC. The Gregorians<br />
now have six grandchildren. The two<br />
oldest twin boys are now campers at<br />
NEMC.<br />
Clarinetist Jo-<br />
Ann Sternberg<br />
leads a diverse<br />
musical life in the<br />
New York area as<br />
a chamber musician,<br />
orchestral<br />
player, music<br />
educator, and interpreter<br />
of new<br />
music. A member of Sequitur, the Saratoga<br />
Chamber Players, Wind Soloists<br />
of New York, the Richardson Chamber<br />
Players and the Riverside <strong>Symphony</strong>,<br />
she also regularly performs and tours<br />
with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the<br />
American Composers Orchestra, Mark<br />
Morris Dance, the American <strong>Symphony</strong>,<br />
the Knights, the Chamber Music<br />
Society of Lincoln Center, and Musicians<br />
from Marlboro, and can often be<br />
24<br />
heard playing in a number of different<br />
Broadway musicals. Following her<br />
undergraduate years in the combined<br />
Tufts University/New England Conservatory<br />
dual degree program where<br />
she was mentored by Peter Hadcock,<br />
Ms. Sternberg continued her studies at<br />
Yale University with David Shifrin and<br />
at The Juilliard School with Charles<br />
Neidich.<br />
Currently, Ms. Sternberg serves<br />
on the faculty of the Music Performance<br />
Program of Princeton University,<br />
the Music Advancement Program at<br />
the Juilliard School, and maintains an<br />
active teaching studio from her New<br />
York City home. Additionally, she<br />
serves as an advisor for New England<br />
Conservatory’s Entrepreneurial Musicianship<br />
Program and coaches chamber<br />
ensembles for the New York Youth<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong>. In the summer months,<br />
Ms. Sternberg lives in Maine where she<br />
is the founder and artistic director of<br />
The Maine Chamber Music Seminar,<br />
teaches and performs at the Chamber<br />
Music Conference & Composers’<br />
Forum of the East at Bennington<br />
College, and participates in numerous<br />
performance residences throughout<br />
greater New England. Previous summers<br />
have seen her performing at the<br />
Portland Chamber Music Festival,<br />
Salt Bay Chamber Fest, Mount Desert<br />
Chamber Music Festival, Sebago/<br />
Long Lake Festival, Bowdoin Summer<br />
Music Festival, Marlboro, Norfolk,<br />
North Country Chamber Players, and<br />
Ravinia. From September through<br />
May, Ms. Sternberg resides in Manhattan<br />
with her husband and children.