OMEA All-State High School Large String Orchestra

OREGON CONVENTION CENTER: OREGON BALLROOM

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2019

4:30 PM

Guest Conductor: Dr Soo Han

Managers: Kristina Stingle and Darian Douglas

Sinfonia No 2 in D Major, MWV N2

1 Allegro

2 Andante

3 . Allegro vivace

Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op . 48

1 . Pezzo in forma di sonatina: Andante non troppo — Allegro moderato

2 Valse: Moderato — Tempo di valse

3 Élégie: Larghetto elegiaco

4 Finale (Tema russo): Andante — Allegro con spirito

Dr Soo Han, Guest Orchestra Conductor

Dr Soo Han is the Director of Orchestral Activities at The Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, a contributing editor for Hal Leonard’s Essential Elements for Strings, a D’Addario Orchestral Strings Artist, Conn-Selmer Educational Clinician, a member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, and the former Director of Orchestras & Department Chair of the William H Duke Center for the Performing Arts at Carmel High in Carmel, IN

As an active conductor, he has appeared with Carmel Symphony Orchestra, Cave Run Symphony Orchestra, Michigan State Opera Theatre, Michigan State Symphony Orchestra, Valparaiso University, and Butler University Symphony Orchestra He is an active conductor for All-State, regional, and honor orchestras appearing in over 30 states and has conducted internationally in Austria, China, and Australia . He has collaborated with numerous artists, groups, and conductors such as Lynn Harrell, David Kim, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra He has produced multiple recordings of complete symphonies and has premiered several commissioned works for strings and full orchestras He has presented workshops and clinics internationally and for nearly every major national and state music conference including, Australian String Teacher Conference, Maryborough National Australia Conference, Midwest Clinic, ASTA National Conference, NAfME National Conference, and Ohio University Summer String Teacher Workshop

Orchestras under his leadership experienced a great deal of success including 9 Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) State Championship and being named Grand Champions at the National Orchestra Cup at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall As a passionate supporter of public school music programs, he continues to remain active in instrumental classrooms throughout the country

He is the past-president of the Indiana American String Teachers Association and the chapter was awarded the ‘Most Improved Chapter’ during his time as president and recently served as the National American String Teachers Association’s K-12 Committee Chair He received his Bachelor of Instrumental Music Education degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Master of Science in Education from Indiana University School of Education, and received his Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting from the Michigan State University College of Music .

Kristina Stingle, HS 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, HS Orchestra Co-Manager

Darian Douglas is a professional violinist and educator, who has been performing and teaching orchestras in Tucson, Arizona and Lake Oswego, Oregon since 2008 He is currently a Graduate Fellow in String Education at the University of 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 to 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 has initiated more active involvement of students and parents in artistic communities of Eugene and Northwest Oregon