Free concerts led by graduate students of the orchestral conducting program.
PROGRAM DETAILS:
Gioachino Rossini - il signore Bruschino Overture / Abbie Naze, conductor
Johannes Brahms - Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11 / Lorenzo Guggenheim, conductor
Alexander Borodin - Symphony No. 3 in A minor "Unfinished" / Abbie Naze, conductor
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade, Op. 35 / Mario Alejandro Torres, conductor
Conductor Bios:
Abbie Naze
Abbie Naze is a second year graduate student at the University of Washington where she is pursuing her Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting under the leadership of Dr. David Rahbee and Maestro Ludovic Morlot. As a Teaching Assistant, she conducts the Campus Philharmonia Orchestra and periodically the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra. Abbie has been accepted to numerous workshops and festivals for both conducting and cello, such as The Pierre Monteux School, The International Conducting Workshop and Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, and The New York Conducting Institute. A native of North Dakota, Naze graduated from Minot State University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music with a concentration in Cello Performance.
Mario Alejandro Torres
Mario Alejandro Torres, a native of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, is in his first year of doctoral studies at University of Washington, pursuing a degree in orchestral conducting under the mentorship of David Alexander Rahbee and Ludovic Morlot. Mario is co-conductor of UW Campus Philharmonia Orchestras, and assistant conductor for UW Symphony Orchestra. Mario holds a Masters of Music in Orchestral Conducting from Ithaca College under the mentorship of Jeffery Meyer. As a violist, he holds a Bachelor (’13) and a Master (’14) of Music in Viola Performance from Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Additionally, Mario has been a conducting student of Michael Jinbo at the Monteux School and Music Festival, where he has also served as an orchestral assistant. He has also performed in master classes led by Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, and Mark Stringer.
He has guest conducted Orquesta de Camara de San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the Eddy Snijders Orchestra in Paramaribo, Suriname, the Caddo Parish High School Honor Orchestra in Shreveport, Louisiana, and the Youth Orchestra of Académie Musicale Occide Jeanty in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti.
As a violist, Mario has soloed with Orquesta de Camara de San Pedro Sula, NSULA Symphony and Chamber orchestras, Rapides Symphony Orchestra, and the Monteux School and Music Festival. Mario has been a member of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and he performed with them in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, and England. He has been co-principal violist for Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and Shreveport Summer Music Festival. He has also play with Shreveport, Longview, Rapides, Marshall, and Costa Rica Symphony Orchestras. As an educator he has taught at Escuela de Música Victoriano Lopez in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and Louisiana Academy of Music in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Mario also holds degrees in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration, and completed a nine-month professional certificate program in Community Leadership, Teaching Artistry, and Social Entrepreneurship for musicians with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas’ Global Leaders Program.