Julie Lushetsky, B.M. ’84, is music director and organist for Hunter’s Creek Community Big Band in Central Florida. Nancy Pettersen Strelau, M.M. ’85, associate chair and associate professor for professional studies at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, conducted the New York State All-State Symphony Orchestra and the Ohio All-State Symphony Orchestra. Ralph R. Hays, B.M. ’86, J.D. ’91, an alto-saxophonist for the 2018 World Adult Wind Orchestra, was inducted into the Frost Band of the Hour Hall of Fame in 2017. Lori I. Kleinman, B.M. ’86, Ph.D. ’00, Florida and Colorado state licensed integrative psychologist, relocated full-time to Colorado. She plays therapeutic flute music at two Veterans Administration Hospitals and Clinics and also performs as a freelance flutist. She continues to develop LIVIBRANCE, her integrative lifestyle model, as part of her professional practice. Neal J. Avron, B.M. ’87, a Grammywinning producer, mixer, and songwriter, has worked on acclaimed albums with a range of artists: Twenty One Pilots, Sara Bareilles, Linkin Park, Blink-182, Weezer, and more. He won a 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Dear Evan Hansen. David P. Ruttenberg, B.M. ’87, founder of Polar Boehme Music, works as producer, engineer, and arranger/ publisher. He recently published his first book The Music Career You Don’t Have…Yet! Ferdinando V. De Sena, M.M. ’89, D.M.A. ’95, teaches composition and electronic music at the New World School of the Arts. He released a new album Secrets for Free, and has had original compositions performed throughout the continental United States, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Argentina, Italy, Ireland, and Scotland.
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Michael F. Canciglia, B.M. ’90, published Live Life to Your Highest and Greatest Good, a spiritual book that provides guidance to live in peace, love, and joy. James Dorgan, B.M. ’90, entertainment attorney and media executive, serves as vice president of music business affairs and legal counsel for Disney ABC Television Group.
Michael J. Johnson, M.M. ’92, D.M.A. ’00, associate professor of contemporary writing and production at Berklee College of Music in Boston, also teaches jazz voice and music technology at the New England Conservatory. He is the director, vocalist, arranger, producer/ engineer of the vocal jazz ensemble Green Line X-Tension; bassist and vocalist of The Dave Howard Initiative; director of music at Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church; and founder and CEO of The Fringe Collective.
John Fournier, B.A. ’90, M.M. ’90, saxophonist, pianist, composer, lyricist, Corbin B. Abernathy, B.M. ’93, adjunct instructor of voice arranger and educator, co-leads The at Pennsylvania Chicago Soul Jazz Collective. Their State University, debut album Soulophone entered the serves on the jazz charts at No. 34 this year. boards of the Matthew R. Sabatella, B.A. ’90, completed Philadelphia Actors' and debuted Equity Liaison American Committee and the Heritage Music: Greater Philadelphia National Association From Plymouth of Teachers of Singing. He is a member of Rock to Rock the Educational Theatre Association and and Roll, a the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. 90-minute Marko W. Marcinko, B.M. ’93, artistic multimedia director for the PA performance exploring the history Jazz Alliance and of early rock and roll. the Scranton Jazz Deborah L. De La Torre, B.M. ’91, a.k.a. Festival, premiered “La Cocodrila,” his composition released her first “America album Coño! Hermosa” in (But with a Santiago de Cuba Swing), with a jazz orchestra. A drummer, he consisting of recorded “The Future Ain’t What It Used to 11 original Be” alongside trumpeter Randy Brecker Latin jazz and saxophonist Ed Calle, M.M. ’84, M.M. ’01. compositions. She is president of DLT Jorge M. Saade, B.M. ’93, has performed Creative Productions, LLC, providing around the world, services in music teaching, publishing, including Peru, film and video production. China, and Christianna Crowl, B.M. ’92, M.M. ’95, Genova. He music director received the ACE and bandleader 2018 Award for the for Cirque du best concert in Soleil’s Amaluna, New York by the will be touring Association of Entertainment Critics. North America throughout 2019. Jacques S. Landry, D.M.A. ’93, recently published a series Crowl launched of original her Musician to Musicpreneur online compositions for mentorship program for aspiring solo guitar titled musical artists, performed 47 concerts Obras Para as conductor/keyboard for Mannheim Guitarra. Steamroller’s Christmas Tour, and serves as musical director at Stagedoor Manor Training Center and Project Change’s Youth Leadership Initiative. frost.miami.edu Spring 2019 SCORE MAGAZINE
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