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A GRAMMY® nominated music educator, Anthony Mazzocchi has performed as a trombonist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera, Riverside Symphony, in various Broadway shows, and in numerous recordings and movie soundtracks. His TEDx talk — “What Can a Trombone Choir Teach the World About Collaboration and Leadership?” — can be seen here.

Tony has served as faculty or as a frequent guest lecturer at The Juilliard School, Carnegie Hall, Manhattan School of Music, New York University, and Mannes College of Music. He has taught students from K-college, and has served as an educational consultant for arts organizations and universities across the US, Canada, and Australia. His books have been adopted by the NYC Department of Education and utilized as educational resources at Carnegie Hall, Orchestra of St. Lukes, The Colburn School, and several university schools of music around the world.

Tony is currently Director of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University in New Jersey, and Executive Director of the Kinhaven Summer Music School in Weston, Vermont. He is a sponsored clinician for the Courtois – Paris instrument company.

Other recent projects include Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, which received the Society of Composers and Lyricists inaugural award in 2020, as well as the "Music of the Year" award at the GANG Awards. Other major recent projects include Watch Dogs: Legion, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Battle Bound and a presently untitled Star Wars project.

He has contributed music to over four dozen major feature film and television projects, collaborating closely with Michael Apted, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dan Ireland, Tom Dolby and others. He is recognized as an expert in the emerging field of spatial and immersive audio (including 3D Audio, Ambisonics and Dolby Atmos), consulting to BBC Worldwide, Qualcomm, Dolby, and Syng. He is a member of the Abbey Road Spatial Audio forum, and on the immersive audio judging panel for the Grammy awards.

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*tap tap tap* goes the baton on the music stand - get ready for the downbeat as we talk all things life of an orchestral conductor!

A protégé of Maestro Lorin Maazel, Kynan Johns served as Director Assistente at the Palau de les Arts, Valencia, Spain to both Maazel and Mehta. A native of Australia he has conducted the Israel Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonica della Scala, Netherlands Radio Symphony and Sydney and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras amongst many others. In Opera, he has worked at Covent Garden, conducted at Italy's famed 'La Scala', Maazel’s 1984 and Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly, Luisa Miller and Don Carlos in Valencia; Don Giovanni with OperMagdeburg, Britten's Turn of the Screw in Rouen and La Bohème & Faust for the State Opera of South Australia. Johns was on the conducting staff for the final three seasons with New York City Opera, working on Adès's Powder Her Face, Chin's Alice in Wonderland (arr. Johns) Offenbach's La Perichole and Turnage's Anna Nicole. Most recent engagements have included Der Zigeunerbaron for MSM, where he had in previous seasons conducted Mahagonny & Die Fledermaus, debuts with the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Orquestra Metropolitana Lisboa, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Le-Ziyyon, New West Symphony, as well as returns to the Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia, Madrid and the Asturias Symphony Orchestra (OSPA). He was awarded the inaugural 'Centenary Medal' from the Australian Government for his services to music and serves as Director of Orchestras at Rutgers University. A prize winner of many international competitions including the Mitropoulos, Maazel/ Vilar and Besancon, he is represented by CAMI, New York. Upcoming engagements include Verdi’s Requiem, Opera Gala at Teatro Real, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Orquesta Clàsica Santa Cecilia, Madrid as well as returns to New West Symphony and the Adelaide Intervarsity Festival in 2019.

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Whynot Jansveld is a Dutch-born bass player, composer, and mastering engineer whose career bridges multiple facets of the modern music industry. Over the years, he has toured and recorded with The Wallflowers, Butch Walker, Richard Marx, Natasha Bedingfield, Sara Bareilles, The Weepies, Gavin DeGraw, Brett Dennen, and Vertical Horizon, among many others. One of his most notable credits is his work with The Wallflowers on their 2021 album Exit Wounds, where he not only played bass but also mastered the record.

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