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Equally active as a conductor, Gordon directs the Symphonic Band at SUNY Plattsburgh, has served as director of the McGill University Wind Symphony and the Adirondack Youth Orchestra, and is founder, President, and Director of the Adirondack Wind Ensemble (AWE), a professional group consisting primarily of music educators from around the North Country. AWE performs annual winter concerts in Giltz Auditorium at SUNY Plattsburgh, and will expand its concert schedule this year by performing at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. Gordon's other performing credits include appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Bruno Walter Auditorium at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Embassy in Paris, the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Hall (Finland), Pollack and Redpath Halls in Montreal, and several smaller venues in Canada, Italy, Finland, Spain, France, and the U.S. Gordon writes frequently about his musical pursuits. His articles on various aspects of conducting and the saxophone, as well as on non-musical topics as diverse as food, travel, and puzzles, have been published in over a dozen periodicals. He has also authored a full-length book entitled Sax on the Streets: Confessions of an American Street Musician in Europe, which chronicles his (mis)adventures performing saxophone duets with a friend across thirteen European countries in the late 1980s. It is available online through writeronlinebooks.com.
Rose has held teaching positions at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Baylor University School of Music, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and the University of Iowa School of Music. She has been a faculty accompanist and coach at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, and the Meadowmount School of Music in Lewis, New York. She was most recently a faculty member at Plattsburgh State University of New York, and currently runs a private studio in her home in Wadhams. Rose holds a bachelor's degree in piano performance from the University of Texas at Austin, and master's and doctoral degrees in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School in Rochester, N.Y.
Ben is the producer/accompanist for the popular NYC-based "Silent Clowns Film Series", which he co-founded with Bruce Lawton now in its 13th year of programming. Ben's recorded scores can be heard on on Kino's John Barrymore, Edison, Reel Baseball and Houdini DVD sets, AllDayEntertainment's "American Slapstick" and "Becoming Charley Chase" DVD sets, as well as several DVDs from UnknownVideo and ReelClassic DVD. He has had orchestral scores commissioned by the Boise Philharmonic and the New York Ragtime Orchestra for films by Chaplin, Keaton and Nell Shipman, and he has recently rearranged two of these scores for high school band. Last year year Ben launched www.altscore.com, the first online service to download alternate musical scores for silent films on DVD. For more information about Ben Model, visit www.silentfilmmusic.com
Jill is a native of Newfoundland, Canada and a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York. She is currently an associate professor of music at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and she has also taught on the faculties of Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina; Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio; and at the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to meet and play for the Piano By Nature community and to visit the north country in winter!
Trombonist, Lori Salimando-Porter returned home to Chazy, NY in 2006 after retiring from the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, NY. What she found was the everlasting beauty of the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain, as well as some old and new friends who now make up Destino Brass. Their audiences enjoy the lush sonority and regal elegance of brass instruments while enjoying a repertoire of classical masterpieces, sacred music and popular hits from Broadway. The ensemble can be heard at concerts, recitals, educational outreach, and sacred ceremonies. Please join us for a concert of diverse brass music performed by Destino Brass, an ensemble dedicated to musical excellence while living in one of the most beautiful areas of our country. |