DMA Graduation 2024
Doctor of Musical Arts - Orchestral Conducting
with Conducting Mentor Dr. Jason Altieri
May 2024
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV
DMA Graduation May 2024
Doctor of Musical Arts - Orchestral Conducting
With two biggest supporters, my husband/conductor Dr. Juan Gallastegui, and mother, Bridget
May 2024
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV
Solo Cast and Conductors Post-Concert
Guest Artists:
Jim Williams, Bass-Baritone
Peter Burroughs, tenor
Fairouz Foty, Soprano
Ayanna Freelon, Soprano
Anitra McKinney, Mezzo
Juan Gallastegui, Music Director and Conductor
JoAnna Cochenet, Guest Conductor
Accord Symphony, Columbia, MD - Chrysalis
July 2023
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Husband-Wife Duo Conductors
Conducted our first concert together that was NOT a master class setting!
Juan Gallastegui, Music Director and Conductor
JoAnna Cochenet, Guest Conductor
Accord Symphony, Columbia, MD - Chrysalis
July 2023
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Cast
Conductors and Soloists
Guest Conductor
Accord Symphony, Columbia, MD - Chrysalis
July 2023
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Cascade Conducting 2023
Cascade Conducting
June 2023
Tacoma, WA
Master Class with Symphony Tacoma players and Maestra Sarah Ioannides
Cascade Conducting: Composers and Conductors
One of the fun experiences from Cascade Conducting in Tacoma, WA in June 2023 was getting to meet budding composers and working with them on their pieces, hearing their works come alive in a rehearsal with Tacoma Symphony players!
Composers: Maxwell Kaye, Julia Vlahogiannis, Laura Avila, Finn Mattingly, Danial Sheibani
Working with Composer Laura Fernanda Zúñiga
Premiere Composer Readings in Workshop
Cascade Conducting
June 2023
Tacoma, WA
Master Class with Symphony Tacoma players and Maestra Sarah Ioannides
Orquesta Northwest - Cascade Conducting
With Co-Founder of Orquesta Northwest, Conductor Paula Madrigal:
Cascade Conducting
June 2023
Tacoma, WA
Master Class with Symphony Tacoma players and Maestra Sarah Ioannides
The Magic Flute
Assistant Conductor to Maestro John Nardolillo, also here with coach and repetiteur Lester Green, at Castleton, VA for Alexandria (Prague) Summer Nights performance of “The Magic Flute.” Castleton and Alexandria, VA June 2023
Dining with David
A nice lunch out in Reno, NV Spring 2023 with composer and friend David Wendell Nelson, and husband and fellow conductor Juan Gallastegui
Conducting Fellowship with Diane Wittry
An updated picture together after so many years, now as a (recent) Conducting Fellow working under Diane Wittry, from the recent Classical Series 5!! Thanks for a fantastic weekend with Allentown Symphony with all of the guests, and their incredible work and performances! It was a blast!
April 2022
Miller Hall
Allentown, PA
Allentown Symphony Concert with Soloist Hector Olivera
Allentown Symphony Concerts as Conducting Fellow under Diane Wittry, with Soloist and organist Hector Olivera, April 2022
Allentown, PA Miller Hall
Concert Colleagues May 2022
With Mezzo-Soprano Soloist Madeline Manaker after our performance of Bizet's Seguidilla with George Mason Symphony Orchestra, and conducting colleague Olivia Jihyun Choi, May 8, 2022
ICWC Jan 2022
Conducting Participants in the International Conductors Workshop and Competition in Lawrenceville, GA Jan 2022
Burgos, Spain
Viewing original Gregorian Chant book in the Cathedral
SMICI 2017 - Dwight Oltman
After the Smoky Mountain International Conducting Institute Concert with Teacher Dwight Oltman and fellow conductor and husband Juan Gallastegui
SMICI 2017
Waynesville, NC; Post-Concert Conductor Participants
Soovin Kim, Violin Soloist
Post-Concert, playing with Soovin Kim on Vivaldi Four Seasons
2013 Bard Conductors Institute
Photo with Guest Faculty Raymond Harvey from my last day at Bard Conductors Institute in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
BCO Conducting Workshop
Photo at the finish-line of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Conducting Workshop with teacher, Markand Thakar, in Baltimore (Towson), MD. December 2012
Beyond the Baton Friends Picture 2
Fellow conductors from the Beyond the Baton Seminar 2012 in Norwalk, CT with Diane Wittry: Jason Lim and Gemma New.
Big Gig Photo
Photo with film composer, Maria Newman, collaborating with the Omaha Conservatory of Music October 2012 Big Gig
Big Gig Photo
Photo with Ruth Meints, Executive Director at Omaha Conservatory of Music at Big Gig October 2012 Fundraiser
Omaha Symphonic Winds Photo
Standing with Keith Davis, Composer/Arranger after the Omaha Symphonic Winds perform his "A Western Plains Overture"
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Post Grad-Conducting Recital Photo Op with conducting teacher Margery Deutsch, and colleague Molly Lieberman, May 2010
DC Strings and GoGo
With Conductors: Roger W of DC GoGo Symphony and husband Juan Gallastegui of DC Strings at their combined concert July 2022. Washington DC Harbor Square. Happy to have hopped in to cover a rehearsal with DC Strings this month and come to hear this concert mix.
