Luzerne Music Center's 2009 Management Team


Managers & Administrators...

WILLIAM  SCHULMAN

Resident Camp Manager, Registrar and Instructor of Horn, holds Bachelor's degrees in Music Education and Performance from Pennsylvania State University and the Master of Music in Performance degree from Indiana University.  Over the last ten years he has taught in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and performed as principal horn with the Symphony of the America's, regularly with the Boca Raton Symphonia and freelances with many other South Florida orchestras.  

Currently he is living in Bloomington, IN. He is an alumnus of Luzerne Music Center, having attended from 1984 to 1988, and has held positions at Luzerne for more then a decade.


ANTHONY McFARLANE

Resident Camp Assistant Manager, Instructor of Trombone, Composition and Jazz Studies, is Adjunct Professor of Trombone at Florida International  University, with a D.M.A. ABD from the University of Miami, Masters in Music from the  University of Miami and a Bachelor's in Music from Florida State University.

Mr. McFarlane performs regularly with the Symphony of the America's, Boca Raton Symphonia, New Philharmonic and Florida State University Jazz Quintet.  He has an active freelance career that takes him around the country.

At the age of 15, he was  given an opportunity to play w/ the London Symphony Orchestra, and has since performed w/the Macau Orchestra of China and for Broadway shows such as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," and  "As the World Goes Round."   Mr. McFarlane was a finalist for the Detroit Symphony Fellowship.   He has also performed with musicians such as Franky Valley, Marie Osmond, Bebe Neuwirth, Bobby Vinton, Michael W. Smith, Bernadete Peters, Denis Deyoung, of  Styxx, and the Craig Turley Orchestra.  

 

                                                          JANET CURRY

Administrator and  Development, PR, Waterfront Director, has a lifelong love of classical music w/pre-collegiate & collegiate training in instrumental and vocal performance.  She has made a career in arts management & development, including service on NYS Council on the Arts re-grant panels for Central & Northern NY, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council Board & as Executive Director of the Arts Center/Old Forge, NY.   She  graduated  Phi Beta Kappa, w/BA, humanities, Finnish & linguistics,  U Minnesota & Helsinki U, & MA, E.  European History, Indiana U.   She is Red-Cross-certified in Life-Saving & Water Safety Instruction.
 

Music Directors & Conductors

                                                               MAESTRO ANDREW KURTZ

Resident Music Director and Conductor, Junior Session, enters his thirteenth season as Music Director and Conductor of the Gulf Coast Symphony, a vibrant community orchestra in Lee County, Florida. He is also founder and Artistic Director of the Center City Opera Theater, a professional opera company in Philadelphia, where he has led performances the regional premieres of Adamo's Little Women and Floyd's Of Mice & Men, as well as nearly two dozen performances including  Don Pasquale, Tosca, La Boheme ('99 & '06), Don Giovanni, La Traviata ('00 &'05), Amahl & the Night Visitors, Rigoletto, and Le Nozze di Figaro. Kurtz's repertoire encompasses a wide range of musical styles from baroque to contemporary, and multiple genres including opera, symphonic, ballet, musical theater, jazz, cantorial and symphonic pops.

Founding Music Director of the five-year-old Florida Jewish Philharmonic Orchestra, he is developing one of only two orchestras of its kind in the USA dedicated to performing music of Jewish composers and on Jewish themes, as well as keeping alive the Cantorial and Yiddish musical traditions.  Kurtz is also the tour conductor for
CANTORS: A Faith in Song, featuring three of the world's leading Cantors, Alberto Mizrahi, Naftali Herstik and Benzion Miller.
 

MAESTRO LOUIS SCAGLIONE

General Music Director and Resident Music Director and Conductor of the Senior Session  is the Music Director and Conductor of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra, and is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Choral Society of Montgomery County (PA).  He serves as Chairman of the Youth Orchestra Division, American Symphony Orchestra League.  

Maestro Scaglione holds B. Music Ed. from the University of Illinois and Master of Music from Temple University (PA), has held adjunct faculty positions with Temple University Music Preparatory Division and Montgomery County Community College (PA), and has participated in numerous international festivals. 

In 2007, he took the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra on a tour of Brazil, including Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo, and conducted the New Jersey Music Educators Association Region I (North) High School Orchestra Festival. 

 

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