Southern Utah String Festival Orchestras
Southern Utah String Festival: Orchestras
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Pine View High School
8:00 a.m. Pine View High School Ed Candland, director
8:30 a.m. Desert Hills High School Kirsten Candland, director
9:00 a.m. Pine View Middle School Ed Candland, director
9:30 a.m. Cedar Middle School Christina Carrigan, director
10:00 a.m. Suzuki Strings Sara Penny, director
10:30 a.m. Cedar Middle School Christina Carrigan, director
11:00 a.m. Fossil Ridge Intermediate School: Beginning Ed Candland, director
11:15 a.m. Fossil Ridge Morning Strings: Beginning Ed Candland, director
11:30 a.m. Cedar High School Christina Carrigan, director
12:30 p.m. Fossil Ridge Morning Strings: Intermediate Liz Heaton, director
12:45 p.m. Desert Hills Middle School Kirsten Candland, director
1:15 p.m. Snow Canyon Middle School Suzanne Czarnecki, director
1:45 p.m. Sunrise Ridge Intermediate School: Intermediate Kirsten Candland, director
2:00 p.m. Sunrise Ridge Morning Strings: Intermediate Megan Powell, director
2:15 p.m.. Sunrise Ridge Intermediate School: Beginning Kirsten Candland, director
2:30 p.m. Sunrise Ridge Morning Strings: Beginning Kirsten Candland, director
2:45 p.m. Vista Charter School Advanced Orchestra Linda Ghidossi-De Luca, director
For thirty-two years, the annual Southern Utah String Festival in Cedar City has given performance opportunities to thousands of young string players. Beginning in the fall of 2006, the orchestra component has taken place in Saint George, featuring live comments from a guest clinician. The first Saturday each March in Cedar City is the solo and ensemble component of the festival. Each player receives written comments and ratings from three adjudicators. This year’s date March 7, 2015 at Canyon View High School. Requirements and entry forms are available online at
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This year’s guest clinician: Dr. Greg Maldonado
Gregory Maldonado holds degrees from USC (D.M.A. in Musicology), CSULB (M.M. in Orchestra Conducting), and UCLA (B.A. in Violin/Viola Performance). He has taught for over 25 years at many Southern California Universities and Colleges, including USC, UCLA, CSU Long Beach, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, University of San Diego, and Riverside Community and Long Beach Community Colleges.
Dr. Maldonado has over 25 years’ experience conducting professional ensembles and has also performed on the Violin and Viola for over 40 years in many professional orchestras, including Fresno Philharmonic, Fresno Opera, Hidden Valley Opera, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Jose Symphonies; Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Monica Symphony, Los Angeles Sinfonietta, Westside Ballet, Center Stage Opera, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Brandenburg Collegium, Magnificat, Musica Angelica, Santa Fe Pro Musica/Santa Fe Opera, San Diego Bach Collegium, Reno Philharmonic, Reno Opera, Nevada Symphonic Orchestra, Nevada Chamber Symphony, Las Vegas Camarata, Las Vegas Philharmonic, and Las Vegas Jazz Connection. He also worked as a violinist for Harrah’s Reno/Tahoe and Fantasy Springs Casinos, accompanying popular artists such as Glen Campbell, Carol Channing, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jackie Evancho, Liza Minelli, and Frank Sinatra. Additionally, he was Principal Conductor and Leader of the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, a critically acclaimed period-instrument ensemble, for nearly two decades. During his tenure with L. A. Baroque Maestro Maldonado worked with many international artists, such as Christopher Hogwood, Monica Huggett, Ton
Koopman, Reinhard Goebel, Trevor Pinnock, and Friedemann Immer. Recently, he performed for the annually televised Latin Academy of Recording Arts/Latin Person of the Year Award.
He has taught violin and viola privately to children and adults for over 30 years and has also taught group string classes and fundamentals of music theory to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students at grade, middle, and high schools, as well as private music academies. Dr. Maldonado currently teaches strings at Kessler and Sons (Charleston and Green Valley stores) and at New York Academy.
Dr. Maldonado has been a judge for the L. A. Music Center Spotlight Awards for the past twenty-six years, as well as a frequent adjudicator for the Clark County School District/Nevada Music Educator’s Association, for the Silver State String Competition, Nevada Music Teachers Association, Nevada Chamber Symphony’s “Invitation to Play,” Southern Utah Performing Arts Festival, California Music Educators Association, American String Teachers Association, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, The Young Musicians Foundation, Long Beach Mozart Festival, Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, Pasadena Pops Orchestra, the John C. Walker Music Competition, and has served as a panelist for the Santa Monica Arts Commission and California Arts Council. He has appeared as a Guest Conductor with the Nouveau Chamber Ballet and with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and has recorded on the
Harmonia Mundi, RCM, Centaur, and Rococo labels. Dr. Maldonado has been an Instructor of Music at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and at the College of Southern Nevada, and is currently Orchestra Directly at Brinley Middle School, Las Vegas. He is an AFM Local 369 member.
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The clinician comment sheet includes the following:
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