Artistic Staff
- Bruce Kiesling Music Director and Conductor, Youth Orchestra and Classical Orchestra
- Karen L. Stefanik Collins, Conductor, Youth Strings
- Gregorio Midero, Conductor, Allegro Strings
ManagerAdministrative
Staff:
Peter
Zlotnick pzlotnick@greensborosymphony.org
- President: Patricia Gutzwiller gutzwil@infionline.net
- Vice President (President-Elect): Kim Self
- Treasure: Michelle Kohler
- Volunteer Coordinator: Margaret Rowlett
- Fundraising Coordinator: Sharon Kasica
- Communications: Kimberly Crampton
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Bruce Kiesling |
Conductor Bruce Kiesling has a diverse background, which encompasses conducting, harpsichord performance, theater and piano work in both classical and popular genres. Originally from Canton, Ohio, Mr. Kiesling received his undergraduate degree and Masters in Conducting from the University of Michigan School of Music. While there, Mr. Kiesling conducted many theatrical productions, served as Director of Choral Activities for the Residential College, and Assistant Conductor of the internationally acclaimed University of Michigan Men’s Glee.
Mr. Kiesling received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting at the University of Miami, Florida, where he was awarded the highly competitive University Fellowship. While in Miami, he served as Artistic Director of the Miami Oratorio Society, Associate Conductor of the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra and co-founder and conductor of the Clarke Chamber Players.
Aside from University training, Mr. Kiesling participated in the conducting master class at the Oregon Bach Festival and the Robert Shaw Workshop at Carnegie Hall. Returning to his theatrical roots, he spent many years as the Supervising Music Director for the five-time Emmy award winning political satire troupe, The News in Revue, including performances and productions in Miami and New York City. Mr. Kiesling is also an active composer. His first musical, King of the Playground, received a staged reading at Musical Theater Works (NYC). His other projects include incidental scores for theatrical productions: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Swimming (off-Broadway) and On Golden Pond (Triad Stage). Recently, he also contributed songs to a revue at the Metropolitan Room in New York City in August.
Expanding his skills as a keyboardist, Mr. Kiesling began studying the harpsichord and within a year was the recipient of the prestigious Duane Wilder Award for Harpsichord. He has led performances from the keyboard with the University of Miami Chamber Orchestra, the Clarke Chamber Players and served as harpsichordist for the Florida Baroque Ensemble. He has also provided piano accompaniment for countless recitals, musicals, showcases, and cabarets.
Mr. Kiesling’s other career is as a composer of music for film and television productions where he enjoys a growing list of productions, including independent films (including A Noise of Many Waters), shorts, and video cast television series. He also regularly conducts orchestral recording sessions for his own and other composer’s film scores.
As Resident Conductor for the Greensboro Symphony, Mr. Kiesling leads classical concerts, the hugely popular Holiday Concert at the Greensboro Coliseum, the Nutcracke, the Gospel Concert, the highly successful education concerts, appeared with the Carolina Pops
In addition to these duties, he serves as Music Director and Conductor for the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra, having led the orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in May 2001 and more recently, a triumphant performance at Carnegie Hall in June 2007 where the orchestra received an immediate standing ovation. Under Dr. Kiesling’s guidance, the ensemble has grown to include four ensembles with over 200 members.
Recently, Mr. Kiesling served as music director, conductor, and pianist for “Das Barbecu” and composed music for the incidental score to “On Golden Pond” at Triad Stage. Two seasons ago, he adapted Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” for rock and roll band for the Greensboro Ballet’s production of “The Cracked Nut.” Mr. Kiesling not only prepared several arrangements and orchestrations of the traditional holiday music but also composed an original song that was recorded by Nashville recording artist Lisa Dames. In addition to the performance at the holiday program this song was played on radio stations and pod-casts throughout the country. For the 2007-2008 seasons, Dr. Kiesling debuts as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Choral Society of Greensboro. Other recent conducting opportunities have included the North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, The College of William and Mary Symphony Orchestra, the Eastern Music Festival, the Carolina Chamber Symphony, and All-County Orchestras in Guilford and Alamance counties.
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Karen L. Stefanik Collins Conductor, Youth Strings sacjam@mindspring.com |
Karen L. Stefanik Collins holds
a Master’s
degree in violin performance from Florida State University and both a Bachelor
of Music and Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Akron. Since
moving to North Carolina in 1984, Karen has taught orchestra for Greensboro Day
School and the Moore County Schools, applied violin and viola at the University
of North Carolina at Pembroke, and string methods classes at UNCG. She has also
done extensive training in the Suzuki Method. Karen is presently teaching Suzuki
violin and middle school orchestra at Greensboro Day School.
Karen Collins has performed
with the Greensboro Symphony for the past fourteen years and the Greensboro
Chamber Orchestra for two seasons, has served as Education Director for the Symphony,
and is presently the conductor for the Greensboro Symphony Youth Strings. Karen
has also performed with the Akron and Canton Symphonies in Ohio, Albany and
Columbus Symphonies in Georgia, Lynchburg Symphony, the Cleveland Opera, and
the Philharmonica de Caracas in Venezuela. Her teachers have included Karen
Clarke, Patricio Cobos, Paul Biss, and Terri Pontremoli.
In addition to her private violin
studio, Karen is also a Suzuki mom. She has three children who have learned violin,
viola, cello, and piano through Suzuki instruction.
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Gregorio Midero Conductor, Allegro Strings gregoriomidero@gmail.com |
Gregorio Midero has been a member of Greensboro Symphony since 2001 and teaches violin and viola in his Private studio at deep river friends meeting.
He has taken violin master classes with Oliver Charlier, Albert Markov, Raimundas Butvila, José Francisco del Castillo, and Tibor Varga.
Midero studied at Latin American Academy of Violin as well as The Simon Bolivar Conservatory in Caracas. He continued his violin study under the guidance of Luis Miguel Gonzales and Raimundas Butvila. Before coming to the United States, he was an active orchestral musician in Venezuela.
Born in Guiria, Venezuela, in 1975, Midero began studying music at age 8, and violin at age 10 in the Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra movement:Guiria. At age 12, he performed as a soloist with the Guiria National Youth Orchestra at the Teresa Carreño Center for the Performing Arts, playing the Violin Concerto L'estro Armonico No. 6 Op. 3 by Vivaldi.
At age 17, Midero entered the Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal de Caracas. As a soloist, he participated in I & II International Young Violinist Festivals Oriente, Antonio Vivaldi Chamber Orchestra tours, and the Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal de Caracas.
Midero plays a violin made in 2004 by Tetsuo Matsuda in Chicago.
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