All-State High School Orchestra

SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 2018

3:00 PM

Conductor: Kevin Noe

Co-Managers: Kristina Stingle and Darian Douglas

Suite from Billy the Kid

Kevin Noe, Orchestra Conductor

Hector Berlioz

Aaron Copland

A passionate supporter of composers and the arts of our time, Noe has commissioned and premiered over 100 works to date Having a background in the theatre from an early age, he has a particular interest in works that blend a variety of art forms . He serves regularly as stage director, actor, writer, filmmaker, and conductor for a variety of operatic and theatrical mixedmedia productions

With a foot in both professional and academic circles, he is currently the Executive Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Theatre of Music, one of the nation’s oldest professional new music ensembles, with over three-hundred commissions to date . The troupe was invited to perform at the festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Noe played the role of Sisyphus in a new work entitled, Just Out of Reach, which, together co-creator Kieren MacMillan, he wrote and directed The work was subsequently nominated for the prestigious Total Theatre award in Edinburgh

A passionate conducting teacher, Noe is the Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at Michigan State University His conducting students hold positions with the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Colorado Symphony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, the University of Houston, Penn State, and the University of Toledo .

Noe has held positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the National Repertory Orchestra, Duquesne University, and the Pittsburgh Opera Center He has also been a regular guest conductor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University working with operatic, ballet, and symphonic programs . Noe completed his graduate studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas where he received the Sally Shepherd Perkins Prize in Music, and was the recipient of the Maurice Abravanel Fellowship at the Tanglewood Festival Mr Noe’s principal conducting teacher was Larry Rachleff; he also studied conducting with Robert Spano, Gustav Meier, Gunther Schuller, and Seiji Ozawa

Kristina Stingle, Orchestra Co-Manager

Kristina Stingle is the Orchestra director at Lakeridge Junior and Senior High Schools in Lake Oswego, where she has served since the fall of 2016 . Ms . Stingle previously taught at Neenah High School in Wisconsin for 16 years as an instrumental and choral music educator She led the high school orchestras, an eclectic string ensemble, directed pit orchestras, and was the K-12 Music Department Chair for the district Kristi enjoyed being the Chair of the Wisconsin High School State Honors Music Project (WMEA All-State) from 2012 to 2015, and the High School Orchestra Coordinator and String Bass coach from 2006 to 2010 Stingle was the inaugural conductor of the “Fox Valley Sinfonia” (2015), where she was a part of a comedic team creating unique performances by “amateur” (beginning) musicians in support of the Fox Valley Symphony and Youth Symphony program, which has currently equated over $100,000 in support over the course of three years A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stingle was honored by the Civic Music Association of Milwaukee, WI in 2005 for Excellence in Choral Teaching, and was Neenah High School’s Teacher of the Year in 2016

Darian Douglas, Orchestra Co-Manager

Darian Douglas is a professional violinist and educator, who has been performing and teaching in the Tucson area since 2008, and is currently the Director of Orchestras at Lake Oswego Junior and Senior High Schools and Elementary Strings Program Coordinator in Lake Oswego, Oregon . In the interest of sharing this knowledge of pedagogy to enrich the community, Mr Douglas strives to provide every student with a real-world musical experience, and instill a life-long love of music and performing . Through partnerships with the American String Teachers Association, universities in Oregon, and professional musicians in the community, Mr Douglas initiates more active involvement of students and parents in artistic communities of Lake Oswego and Northwest Oregon