Guest Conductor information for 2010 will be posted soon!
There will be four orchestras at the 2009 edition of String Camp! The conductors are:
Erin Yelton Broadhurst, a Baldwin-Wallace alumna, is a middle school orchestra director in the Hilliard City Schools near Columbus, Ohio. Erin's previous teaching background includes serving as the director of the Middletown Youth Symphony, teaching 4th-12th grade strings in the Middletown City Schools, serving as a section coach with the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras, and for the past several years maintaining a private viola and violin studio. In 2003 she was chosen as the Ohio Orchestra & String Teachers Association's Young Teacher of the Year. Ms. Broadhurst began her musical training with viola study in the Forest Hills School District in Cincinnati, earning a Bachelor of Music Education degree at B-W, as well as Masters degrees in String Pedagogy and Viola Performance from the Ohio State University. She is extremely excited to be able to work the wonderful students at the BW String Camp again this year!
Dianna Richardson is director and conductor of the orchestra program at Cleveland School of the Arts. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Masters from Cleveland State University. In addition, she has studied music at Arizona State University and The Juilliard School of Music. In 1998, Ms. Richardson received the Heidi Castleman Award for excellence in teaching and performing chamber music. She is director of the String Ensemble and String Orchestra in the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music’s Youth Orchestra Program, All City Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra for the Cleveland Municipal School District and is principal bassist of the Grammy Award winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Ms. Richardson founded the Strings Attached summer program that promotes literacy through music and serves on the faculty of Muskingum College.
Jason Seber is currently entering his fourth season as Music Director of the Louisville Youth Orchestra. He conducts the most advanced ensemble, the LYO Symphony Orchestra, and oversees the musical staff and a membership of over 350 young musicians. Under his direction, the youth orchestra has collaborated with many great conductors, artists, and composers, including Jason Weinberger, Stuart Chafetz, Kit Armstrong, Zade Dirani, and Joan Tower. This season he will be leading the celebration of the youth orchestra’s 50th anniversary in performances with Caroline Goulding (violin) and Christopher O’Riley (piano, host of NPR’s “From the Top”) and in premieres by Joseph Schwantner and Jason Thompson. In addition to conducting the youth orchestra, Seber serves as Director of Orchestras at the Youth Performing Arts School. Before journeying to Louisville, Mr. Seber spent over ten years teaching and conducting in the Cleveland area. He was Director of Orchestras at Strongsville High School for five years, and was Music Director of the Euclid Orchestra for six seasons. He has also served as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado, and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestras. Seber regularly guest conducts the Louisville Orchestra in many of their Making Music educational concerts, OrKIDStra! series family concerts, and holiday programs. He has also recently guest conducted the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the Mansfield Symphony, and the Ashland Regional Ballet. As an educator, he has enjoyed leading festivals, camps, and clinics in Indiana, Kentucky, New York, and Ohio.
Mr. Seber earned his B.M.E. and B.M. in violin performance from Baldwin-Wallace College and his M.M. in orchestral conducting from the Cleveland Institute of Music. His primary conducting teachers include Carl Topilow, Dwight Oltman, and Michael Jinbo. He has also worked with such eminent conductors as Kenneth Kiesler, Louis Lane, Gustav Meier, Larry Rachleff, David Robertson, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Thomas Wilkins.
Harriett Ahmed Thomas has been teaching in the Oberlin School District since 1976. Ms. Thomas received both her Bachelor and Master degrees in Music Education from the Oberlin College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied violin with Dorothy Mauney and Andor Toth, Sr. She has done post graduate work at Vandercook College, University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Ashland University. Ms. Thomas served as Dean of Students, Schedule Coordinator, Ensemble Coach, and Assistant to the Director for the Summer Music Experience Program on the Western Reserve Academy Campus in Hudson, Ohio for many years. She was the director of the Northern Ohio Youth Symphonetta Orchestra for ten years. She is the advisor for the Tri-M Music Honor Society and works with individual students and small groups before and after school each day. In past years she has served as a Mentor Teacher and chairmen of the Foundation for Excellent Schools Committee. She is an active member of ASTA, MENC and OEA. Past awards include: Oberlin District Recognition Award, the NANBPWC Inc. Professional Award, Cleveland Plain Dealer Crystal Apple Award Nominee, the Oberlin Community Teacher of the Year, and the Oberlin College Award for Distinguished Service to the Community. Ms. Thomas is also a part-time Travel Agent. She plans and organizes cruises, tours, individual, and group vacation packages in her spare time.
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