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Drostan Hall,
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Drostan Hall conductor, violinist and founder of the Hall
School of Music and Camerata Chicago
www.cameratachicago.com ,
is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,
England. He has performed globally, participating in festivals in
Europe and the United States.
Maestro Hall
conducted the world premier of
The Story
of Ferdinand
orchestrated by Jonathan Blumhofer at the Utah Music
Festival in 2003. He has guest conducted the Elmhurst Symphony with the
Illinois premiere of The Story of Ferdinand. He collaborated with
violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi in February of this year performing Mozart’s
5th Violin Concerto. He also conducted performances of Mozart’s opera
Bastien & Bastienne with The Comic Intermezzo, (Peter & Kathleen Van De
Graaf) at the Chicago Cultural Center for their celebration of Mozart’s
250th anniversary celebration. Drostan Hall is the president and founder
of the Hall School of Music in Wheaton, Illinois. He is also the
producer of the highly successful children’s educational CD Ferdinand &
Friends which has now sold over 5,000 copies worldwide. Drostan Hall
can be heard frequently on WFMT conducting Camerata Chicago. Maestro Hall
holds the belief that music is a gift and wishes to dedicate his music
making to God, the author of that gift.
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Rebecca Zimmerman,
Cello |
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Rebecca
Zimmerman began studying piano at the age of four
and cello at the age of ten. Throughout her early development as a
cellist, Rebecca studied with several teachers including Dajing Yang,
Jim Wilson of the Shanghai Quartet, and Neal Cary, principal cellist of
the Richmond Symphony. Rebecca graduated from the Cleveland Institute of
Music in 2003 with a BM in Cello Performance, studying under Stephen
Gerber, former principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra. Rebecca has
attended the Eastern Music Festival, Tanglewood, Kent-Blossom Music
Festival, and the National Orchestral Institute, all of which she served
as principal cellist. Rebecca's competition winnings include the 1999
Richmond Symphony Concerto Competitionand the 2000 Eastern Music
Festival Competition. She has also performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto
with the Richmond Symphony and the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
with the Eastern Music Festival OrchestraRebecca enjoyed a one-year
position with the Richmond Symphony as well as a fellowship with the New
World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. She is currently Assistant
Principal of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra and performs and
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Sue Young,
Piano/Flute |
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Sue Young (Piano Classical and Jazz / Flute /
Recorder / Theory / Musicianship) is a Graduate Summa
Cum Laude from Northwestern University with an
MA in flute performance and theory.
Mrs. Young has also served
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John Ronai,
Violin/Viola |
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John Ronai Violin / Viola holds a
Master's degree in violin performance from the University of
Michigan. He also holds a certificate in the instruction of the Suzuki
method. He has played in the Indianapolis Symphony, Toledo (Ohio)
Symphony, and has performed as a substitute with the Detroit Symphony.
Mr. Ronai is also a faculty member at the Music Institute of Chicago
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David
O'Fallon,
Percussion |
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David O'Fallon, Purcussion began writing music
for his own band about a year after beginning drum lessons at the age of
nine. Later on, at Northern Illinois University, where he received
degrees in Elementary Education and Music Theory & Composition, Dave was
the staff arranger for the legendary NIU Jazz Ensemble. He has been a
member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra as a percussionist and as a
violist, and he has been a member of the bass section of the Chicago
Symphony Chorus.
As a free-lance percussionist, David has over twenty
five years experience performing with Chicago-area musical theater,
opera, ballet, the Chicago Sinfonietta, Ravinia Festival and Grant Park
orchestras, jazz combos, wedding bands, big bands, and as a steel pan
player, he leads his own Caribbean-styled group, Jamaican Breeze (www.jamaicanbreeze.net).
He has been frequently called upon to augment the percussion section of
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has made some 20
recordings, one film score (Disney's "Fantasia 2000"), and a
number of tours.
In addition, David has been the recipient of four
commissions from the Chicago chapter of the American String Teachers
Association to write contemporary music specifically suited to younger
players. The first of these compositions, Legend, was chosen
among the first 100 compositions to be described in Volume 1 of the new
textbook series, Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra
(GIA Publications, Chicago, 2001).
As a percussion teacher and adjudicator, David has
many years of experience helping beginning percussionists get a good
foundation as well as helping more experienced players improve their
reading and musicianship skills on snare drum, timpani and mallets.
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