former director of the Coldstream Guards and senior director of the Household Division, London, England. Jones is highly respected as a conductor and military music director of numerous musical events on the international stage. He will serve as music director for the upcoming Zurich Tattoo in Switzerland and is a featured guest lecture aboard the Queen Mary. Most recently, he was guest conductor for the adult summer band at “Music at the Summit” in Breckenridge, Colorado.
For further information, contact Deborah Bradley, Sousa FoundationSoutheaster Honor Band chair, bradband@ bellsouth.net. Lt. Col. Graham Jones
Georgia Educators Present at Midwest Music education in Georgia will be well represented at the 2014 Midwest Clinic International Band, Orchestra, and Music Conference by two performing groups and seven clinicians. Performances will be given by the Duluth High School Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Peter Lemonds and Shawn Morton, and the Dickerson Middle School Percussion ensemble, directed by Scott Brown. Clinicians include Catherine Hudnall, Erin Cole, Travis Downs, Freddie Martin, Chester Phillips, Scott Brown, and Alfred Wyatt. The 68th annual conference will take place December 17-20 at McCormick Place West, Chicago. Events will center on the theme “Affirm—Inspire—Educate: You Make the Difference.”
Duluth High School Chamber Orchestra Peter Lemonds and Shawn Morton, Directors
Duluth High School Chamber Orchestra
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Shawn Morton
The Duluth High School Orchestra Program currently enrolls 335 string players in six orchestras and employs two directors. The Chamber Orchestra has been honored numerous times for its excellence, including recognition as the top public school orchestra in the country at the 2005 National Orchestra Festival at the American String Teachers Association and placing first in the 2013 National Band and Orchestra Festival at Lincoln Center. The Duluth High School Orchestra Program reflects the rich ethnic diversity of the school, with students representing 62 countries and 40 languages. In addition to studying and performing music of the European classical tradition, students also study and perform music of alternative styles from their native countries and explore the music of America through the idioms of jazz, blues, swing, and traditional American fiddle music. Each year the orchestra marches in the Duluth Fall Festival parade as one of the only marching orchestras in America. Peter Lemonds has enjoyed a varied music career. A winner of the Alpha Delta Kappa International Cello Competition, he has performed numerous concerts as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States and abroad. As an educator, he has directed the orchestra program for the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program, and has taught at the Lovett School, the Paideia School, Wheeler High School, East Cobb Middle School, North Gwinnett High School, and Duluth Middle School. He holds a D.M.A. degree from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri, an M.M. degree from Louisiana State University, and a B.A. from the University of the South, Sewanee. In 2011 Lemonds received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Yale University School of Music, and in 2013 he
was named the Georgia String Educator of the Year by the American String Teachers Association. Shawn Morton graduated summa cum laude from the University of Georgia with a B.M. degree in music education and a minor in viola performance. She has worked as a sectional coach with the Gwinnett County Youth Symphony, and she has served as a clinician for local school orchestras, the Spivey Hall Chamber Orchestra Workshop, the Gwinnett County Violapalooza Festival, the Gwinnett County Sixth Grade Honor Orchestra, the UGA Summer Music Camp, and various other workshops and clinics. She has conducted student orchestras at the 2007 Midwest Clinic, 2009 American String Teachers Association Conference, the 2011 Georgia Music Educators Association Conference, and the 2013 National Band and Orchestra Festival at Lincoln Center. Under her direction, the Duluth High School Orchestras received the 2013 Exemplary Program Award from GMEA.
Dickerson Middle School Percussion Ensemble Scott Brown, Director
Dickerson Middle School Percussion Ensemble
Scott Brown, Director Founded in the spring of 2002, the Dickerson Percussion Ensemble has performed for numerous festivals and conventions including the Georgia Music Educators Association Conference, National Band Association Southern Division Conference, and the 2010 and 2014 Sandy Feldstein National Percussion Festival. Led by Brown, the Dickerson ensemble presented a clinic/performance, “Developing a Successful Middle School Percussion Ensemble,” for GEORGIA MUSIC NEWS, VOL. 75, NUMBER 1, FALL 2014