The Conductors
GUEST CONDUCTOR Jeremy Stoner teaches Tuba and Euphonium at Hochstein Music
School and at Nazareth College.
Formerly principal tuba in the Savannah Symphony,Rochester native, Jeremy Stoner is back in town these days, performing with the Syracuse Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic as well as with the Hochstein Brass Quintet.
A graduate of East High, Jeremy also holds bachelor' s and master' s degrees in performance from the Oberlin Conservatory and from Northwestern University.
Guest Conductor Marcia Bornhurst Parkes is delighted to conduct the 2011 Rochester TubaChristmas concert with Glenn Call and Jeremy Stoner. A Music Director with extensive conducting, teaching, and administrative experience Parkes builds communities of musicians and advocates by creating, conducting, and promoting concerts and events that integrate musicianship, enrichment, community, and service.
As Chair and Administrator of the Rochester New Horizons organization, she coordinated and united a program consisting of 15 faculty and over 250 musicians performing in various instrumental and vocal ensembles. Due to her leadership as Director of Bands, New Horizons Big Band and Brasso Profundo, a tuba/euphonium ensemble, she elevated performance quality and musicianship. She collaborated with Don Harry, Professor of Tuba, Thomas J. Ricer, and Tuba Mirum at the Eastman School of Music, and her Big Band performed for 3 consecutive years at the Rochester International Jazz Festival.
A founding member of the New York State Band Directors Association (NYSBDA), http://www.nysbda.org, Parkes led that organization in many roles, serving on the Executive Board for 15 years. Devoted to teacher education, she established and managed NYSBDA’s regional professional development workshops. Parkes conducted two Symposium concert-clinics featuring two of her school bands, and she demonstrated methods used to achieve musicianship and to foster composition.
Committed to commissioning new works, Parkes served as the Chair of the first NYSBDA band commission program, and then she worked with The Commission Project (TCP), sponsoring and collaborating with several
composers-in-residence. Also as an educational consultant for TCP, she evaluated and reported the effectiveness of the Composer-in-Residence and Blues In Schools programs.
Parkes holds the Ph.D. and M. M. from the Eastman School of Music and the B. M. from Ithaca College School of Music. She studied conducting with Donald Hunsberger, Karel Husa, and others. She holds memberships in the Conductor’s Guild, College Music Society, NYSBDA, National Association for Music Education, New York State School Music Association, Sigma Alpha Iota, and the Alphorn Society of Western New York.
School and at Nazareth College.
Formerly principal tuba in the Savannah Symphony,Rochester native, Jeremy Stoner is back in town these days, performing with the Syracuse Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic as well as with the Hochstein Brass Quintet.
A graduate of East High, Jeremy also holds bachelor' s and master' s degrees in performance from the Oberlin Conservatory and from Northwestern University.
Guest Conductor Marcia Bornhurst Parkes is delighted to conduct the 2011 Rochester TubaChristmas concert with Glenn Call and Jeremy Stoner. A Music Director with extensive conducting, teaching, and administrative experience Parkes builds communities of musicians and advocates by creating, conducting, and promoting concerts and events that integrate musicianship, enrichment, community, and service.
As Chair and Administrator of the Rochester New Horizons organization, she coordinated and united a program consisting of 15 faculty and over 250 musicians performing in various instrumental and vocal ensembles. Due to her leadership as Director of Bands, New Horizons Big Band and Brasso Profundo, a tuba/euphonium ensemble, she elevated performance quality and musicianship. She collaborated with Don Harry, Professor of Tuba, Thomas J. Ricer, and Tuba Mirum at the Eastman School of Music, and her Big Band performed for 3 consecutive years at the Rochester International Jazz Festival.
A founding member of the New York State Band Directors Association (NYSBDA), http://www.nysbda.org, Parkes led that organization in many roles, serving on the Executive Board for 15 years. Devoted to teacher education, she established and managed NYSBDA’s regional professional development workshops. Parkes conducted two Symposium concert-clinics featuring two of her school bands, and she demonstrated methods used to achieve musicianship and to foster composition.
Committed to commissioning new works, Parkes served as the Chair of the first NYSBDA band commission program, and then she worked with The Commission Project (TCP), sponsoring and collaborating with several
composers-in-residence. Also as an educational consultant for TCP, she evaluated and reported the effectiveness of the Composer-in-Residence and Blues In Schools programs.
Parkes holds the Ph.D. and M. M. from the Eastman School of Music and the B. M. from Ithaca College School of Music. She studied conducting with Donald Hunsberger, Karel Husa, and others. She holds memberships in the Conductor’s Guild, College Music Society, NYSBDA, National Association for Music Education, New York State School Music Association, Sigma Alpha Iota, and the Alphorn Society of Western New York.
CONDUCTOR and BRASS SPECIALIST Glenn Call has directed Rochester TubaChristmas since it began in 1983.
Glenn Call has toured extensively as a prominent Euphonium soloist, conductor and teacher, conducting and performing with orchestras and bands throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
Following studies at the Eastman School of Music, he began his distinctive musical career as a member of the famed “President’s Own“ US Marine Band at the White House. Following that, he taught at the Eastman School of Music as well as at Nazareth College, Roberts Wesleyan College and the State University of New York at Fredonia.
A Yamaha Performing Artist, Glenn Call helped design the Yamaha YEP642 Euphonium, used by many notable soloists today.
In his free time, Glenn Call enjoys alpine skiing, motorcycle touring and sailing his 36'sloop Passage..
For over thirty years, Mr. Call has had an active private studio in Rochester, New York, teaching Euphonium and Tuba at all levels.
If you enjoy playing Euphonium or Tuba - and would like to enjoy it more - you can contact Glenn Call by phone or text at: (585) 503-6387 ...or by eMail at CALL@GoetheNet.net.