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Kinhaven Senior Session 2010 Guest Conductors

Ankush Bahl a graduate of Manhattan School of Music in 2003, studied with Zdenek Macal and participated in master classes with Masur, Meier, Eschenbach, and Keisler. Formerly with the New York Youth Symphony and the San Francisco Youth Symphony, he is currently the Music Director of the New Jersey Youth Symphony. Repertoire: Mahler 1, all 4 movements.

Jerry T Bidlack was the principal orchestral conductor at Kinhaven from 1968 until 2004. He has also conducted the Kinhaven Chorus and Chamber Choir since 1973. He is an Emeritus Professor from the Music Department of Lehigh University since 1995 where he founded the orchestra, taught theory and was in charge of the professional concert series Music at Lehigh. He and his wife Nancy founded the Lehigh Valley Young People’s Philharmonic in 1976, of which he continues as Music Director and Principal Conductor. Repertoire: Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Jeri Lynne Johnson began conducting while pursuing doctoral studies in music theory and history at the University of Chicago.  Her conducting teachers and mentors have included Sir Simon Rattle, Cliff Colnot, Daniel Barenboim, and John Harbison among others. In Philadelphia, Ms. Johnson committed herself to artistic innovation by performing and commissioning new works.  A composer herself, Ms. Johnson has performed her own innovative multimedia commissions for the Kimmel Center’s See Hear! concert series and with the computer visual music ensemble, Arts in Motion. She is Founder and Music Director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra. Repertoire: Shostakovich 5, movements 1 and 4.

Simon Lipskar has been the Conductor of the New Jersey Youth Orchestra since 2006, and previously conducted the NJYS Philharmonia. He was Assistant Conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic under Robert
Spano. He trained at Tanglewood’s Conductor’s Seminar and received a Masters Degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he was awarded the Conducting Department Award. He received his B.A. in religious studies from Yale University and he is a Kinhaven alumnus (1984-1986). Repertoire: Sibelius 2, movements 1 and 2.

Timothy Weiss graduated from the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels, Belgium. Since 1992, he has served on the faculty of Oberlin College as Associate Professor of Conducting, Chair of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles, and holds the Ruth Strickland Gardner Chair in Music. He appears frequently as a guest conductor and is the Music Director of the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra. Repertoire: Bernstein's West Side Story, Symphonic Dances.