NOI+F: Joseph Conyers' Dubhe
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- Vijay Gupta, violin
- Melissa White, violin
- Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola
- Yumi Kendall, cello
- Joseph Conyers, double bass
Florence Price — String Quartet No. 2 in A minor
Antonín Dvořák — String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77, B. 49
Joseph Conyers has redefined classical music––both as a genre and as a tool for social change. Through his newly launched chamber ensemble titled Dubhe, Conyers aims to create a blueprint for the multi-faceted, multi-dimensional 21st-century musician. The ensemble, which will feature rotating cohorts of influential musicians, will launch at the 2022 National Orchestral Institute + Festival and tour throughout the 2022–23 season. In this debut performance, Dubhe will perform works by Florence Price and Antonín Dvořák.
Please note that this event will not be livestreamed.
This event is part of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F), a program of The Clarice at the University of Maryland. NOI+F trains aspiring orchestral musicians, composers, conductors and arts administrators from across the country in a month of dynamic music-making and professional exploration. Trailblazing conductor Marin Alsop was appointed as the first-ever Music Director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival in 2020. In addition to conducting innovative programs onstage at The Clarice and at Wolf Trap, Maestra Alsop launched the NOI+F Conducting Academy for rising young conductors in 2021. In 2015, NOI+F began a partnership with Naxos to record one concert of all-American music each year—Naxos' first partnership with a summer festival of its kind. The 2019 recording Ruggles, Stucky, Harbison received a Grammy nomination in the "Best Orchestral Performance" category.
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About Vijay Gupta, violin
About Melissa White, violin
American violinist Melissa White has enchanted audiences and critics around the world as both a soloist and a chamber musician. White emerges from the summer of 2022 resplendent with new achievements and milestones in a skyrocketing career that continues to span the globe.
https://melissawhiteviolin.com/About Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola
About Yumi Kendall, cello
https://www.philorch.org/your-philorch/meet-your-orchestra/musicians/yumi-kendall/
About Joseph Conyers, double bass
Joseph Conyers was appointed assistant principal bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2010 and has been acting associate principal since 2017. He previously held tenures with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; the Grand Rapids Symphony, where he served as principal bass; and the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.
Mr. Conyers has performed with many orchestras as soloist, including the Alabama, Flagstaff, and Richmond symphony orchestras; the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; and the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, having won second prize at the 2004 Sphinx Competition. In 2008 John B Hedges wrote a concerto for him—Prayers of Rain and Wind—commissioned by the Grand Rapids Symphony.
Mr. Conyers is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Other chamber music festivals and collaborations have included the Ilumina Festival, the Festival Internacional de Música de Esmeraldas, and chamber music festivals in Savannah, Charlottesville, Kingston, and Lexington.
In 2019 Mr. Conyers received the Sphinx Organization’s Medal of Excellence. In 2018 he received the C. Hartman Kuhn Award from the Philadelphia Orchestra and was named one of Musical America’s 30 Professionals of the Year. In 2015 he was the recipient of the inaugural Young Alumni Award from the Curtis Institute of Music, and in 2007 was named one of “30 Leaders 30 and Under” by Ebony magazine. In 1999 he was one of the first guests on a pilot taping of NPR’s From the Top.
Mr. Conyers has served as adjunct faculty at Calvin University and Clark Atlanta University. He is currently on the faculty at Temple University and has been music director of Philadelphia’s All City Orchestra since 2015. He has taught at numerous summer music festivals including the Philadelphia International Music Festival, the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy, and the National Repertory Orchestra. He has given master classes and lectures across the country, including at the Colburn School, the Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Yale University, Ohio State University, the University of Georgia, and Peabody Conservatory.
Mr. Conyers is the founder of the nonprofit Project 440. Through its nationally recognized curricula, Project 440 uses music as a tool to engage, educate, and inspire young musicians, providing them with care and life skills to become tomorrow’s civic-minded, entrepreneurial leaders.
Mr. Conyers received his bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with both Harold Robinson and Edgar Meyer. Other mentors have included David Warshauer, Daniel Swaim, and Albert Laszlo. He performs on the “Zimmerman/Gladstone” 1802 Vincenzo Panormo double bass, which he has affectionately named “Norma.”
https://www.philorch.org/your-philorch/meet-your-orchestra/musicians/joseph-conyers/Gildenhorn Recital Hall at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
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