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Artistic StaffGary CannonMusic Director
As a tenor, Cannon has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Philharmonic, and the Auburn, Rainier, and Eastside Symphony Orchestras, in major works such as Mozart's Requiem, Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass, and P.D.Q. Bach's Iphigenia in Brooklyn. Cannon's recital repertoire ranges from Schubert songs to Puccini arias. Cannon also sings with The Tudor Choir and the Seattle Opera Chorus. Cannon taught for two years at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, where he received the 2006 Faculty Excellence Award, the college's highest faculty honor. His musicological research emphasizes twentieth-century British music; particularly noteworthy is his work as founder and webmaster of WilliamWalton.net. Cannon holds degrees from the University of California–Davis and the University of Washington, where he is currently researching a doctoral dissertation on the early life and works of William Walton. He has studied and sung with some of the world's leading choral conductors, including Paul Hillier, Abraham Kaplan, Peter Phillips, Jeffrey Thomas, and Dale Warland. Bern HerbolsheimerComposer in Residence
His Symphony #1 was premiered by the Florida Symphony under conductor Kenneth Jin, and other orchestral music has been premiered by the Seattle Symphony, Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and Music Today in New York under the direction of Gerard Schwarz. His vocal and choral music has been performed in Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, South America, Canada, Norway, Russia, Hungary, Japan, and throughout the United States. A frequent award winner, Mr. Herbolsheimer has been Seattle Artist-in-Residence (Seattle Arts Commission), Washington State Composer of the Year (WSMTA), and winner of the Melodious Accord Choral Music Competition (Te Deum), in addition to the National Opera Association's New Opera Competition (Aria da Capo). He has also been the recipient of composition commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts (Symphony #1), Chamber Music America (Tanguy Music), the Seattle Symphony (In Mysterium Tremendum), and from numerous local organizations such as Seattle Men's Chorus, St. James Cathedral, Opus 7, Seattle Pro Musica and the Cascadian Chorale. His works also appear on recent CDs by St. James Cathedral, Opus 7, Paul Taub, Tony Brown and Lisa Bergman. As pianist Mr. Herbolsheimer has performed as accompanist at the Bergen International Music Festival, the Schloss Elmau Festival, and on concert series for Columbia Artists, Saint Martin's Abbey, the Spanish Institute, the Goethe Institute, the American Opera Festival of the Sierra, Estoril/Cacais Concerts in Portugal, the Tatarstan Opera in Kazan, Battelle Institute, the Ojai Music Festival, and regularly in the Western Washington area. Mr. Herbolsheimer also serves on the music faculty of Seattle's Cornish College, where he teaches composition-related classes and holds a private studio, and the University of Washington, where he teaches graduate classes in the voice program. At the end of the 2000-2001 school year he was selected as the Outstanding Teacher of Music at Cornish College. In his capacity as Composer-in-Residence of the Cascadian Chorale he has served as artistic advisor to the board and staff, as one of the administrators and founders of our Cascadian Prize Choral Composition Contest, as frequent performer with both the Cascadian Chorale and Singers, and as composer of new works such his Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (1997), Beati Quorum Via (1996), Stille Nacht (2000), and Three French Carols (1999). Andrés Peláez, AccompanistAndrés Peláez graduated with honors in piano performance and piano teaching from La Plata Conservatory (Argentina) and received his degree in chamber music from La Plata National University. A prizewinner of several piano competitions, he has given numerous solo and ensemble performances in Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. In 2004 he was a winner of the Ladies Musical Club Competition in Seattle, which featured him in a concert tour around Washington State. He recently received his Master of Music in Piano Performance at the University of Washington School of Music. He currently works at the UW School of Music as a pianist for opera productions, voice lessons, and choir ensembles. |
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Herbolsheimer has received recognition throughout the United States and Europe
for over 300 works ranging from ballet to symphonic, operatic, chamber and
choral works. His numerous major commissions and premieres have included ballets
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