Orchestra
Dr. Dylan Chmura-Moore
Dylan Thomas Chmura-Moore, D.M.A., is Music Director of Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra. Dylan is also Associate Professor of Music at University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh where he is director of orchestras. Previously, he was director of the Ripon College Symphony Orchestra and has conducted ensembles of Harvard University, New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, Northeastern University, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and other groups such as Callithumpian Consort and Shivaree Ensemble. Some of the conductors with whom Dylan has had the opportunity to intimately observe and work are Pierre Boulez, Robert Page, Larry Rachleff, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Silverstein, and Benjamin Zander. He is the author of “A Practical Reference Manual of Tempos for Musicians,” published by Potenza Music.
Dylan is also professor of trombone at UW-Oshkosh, former instructor of trombone and euphonium at Holy Family College, having been an active solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. Notable international appearances include performances at the Internationale Ferienkurse Fur Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, and the Lucerne Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. Dylan can be heard on Mode, Summit, EuroArts, Albany, TZADIK, and the Accentus record label. His solo album, Flag, was released by Peer 2 Records. He is the author of “Interdisciplinary Studies for the Trombonist,” published by Potenza Music.
Dylan was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow at the university and focused his studies on the research and performance of newly composed music. Previously, Dylan studied at New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts where he received two Master of Music degrees, one in trombone and the other in conducting. Upon graduation, Dylan was awarded academic honors, a distinction in performance, and the Gunther Schuller Medal, the highest honor awarded by the conservatory. Dylan received the Bachelor of Music degree from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music.
Band
Dr. Glenn Hayes
Glenn C. Hayes is in his thirty-fourth year as Director of Bands at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His responsibilities include conducting the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Chamber Winds, University/Community Band and the Warhawk Marching Band. Dr. Hayes’ teaching areas include graduate and undergraduate conducting, wind literature, secondary instrumental music methods, student teacher supervision and marching band techniques. His previous teaching positions include Moorhead (MN) State University, Bowling Green (OH) State University, Greater Muskegon (MI) Catholic Schools and Grand Blanc (MI) Community High School.
Under his guidance, the UW-W band program has received international, national and regional acclaim for excellence in performance both in the concert hall and on the marching field. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble has performed by invitation at conventions of the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles, College Band Directors National Conference and the National Association for Music Education. On February 20, 2013, Dr. Hayes led the Symphonic Wind Ensemble in a performance at Carnegie Hall to great acclaim – the first Wisconsin university band to perform in the legendary venue. That performance led to an invited performance at Symphony Center in Chicago as the featured ensemble for the 2014 Chicago International Music Festival. SWE returned to Carnegie Hall on March 10, 2020 – again receving a standing/cheering ovation. Prominent composers and guest conductors have acclaimed the ensemble for exquisite musical sensitivity. In addition to a firm comitment to the standard literature, Dr. Hayes is a proponent of contemporary wind literature including works with electronic sounds, video and audio enhancment. The Warhawk Marching Band, “Wisconsin’s Finest”, is known for being a leader in the contemporay marching band world. WMB has performed twelve times for the Green Bay Packers, three times for the Milwaukee Brewers Opening Day ceremonies and hosts the Wisconsin State Marching Band Championships.
Dr. Hayes has conducted and adjudicated throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has given hundreds of clinics for high school and middle school bands. His primary conducting teachers have been John P. Paynter, Elizabeth A. H. Green and Norman C. Dietz. Dr. Hayes earned his undergraduate degree from Central Michigan University and his graduate degrees from Northwestern University.
Choir
Kristin Clainborne
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