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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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An unbelievable career as one of the world's best and most versatile keyboardists– Ed Alstrom is currently the organist for the NY Yankees, but besides being a keyboardist, singer/songwriter in his own right, with several albums of original music out there, he's done it all – Broadway, played with superstars like Bette Midler and Chuck Berry, classical, jazz, church – even working for the CASIO corporation on their keyboard design and composing their pre-installed demos and rhythms! There's so much to learn about being a world-class keyboardist from ED ALSTROM!

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Flautist and entrepreneur, music administrator extraordinaire Eftihia Arkoudis joins the podcast to talk all things arts administration, striking the right balance between performance and administration careers, and the glory of the grind! This episode is a treasure trove of inspiration!

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Dr. Julia Baumanis is Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Bands at Rutgers University and is the first female instrumental conductor at Rutgers University in its 257 year history. Her duties include serving as the Conductor of the Rutgers Symphony Band, the Associate Director of the Marching Scarlet Knights, Director of Pep Bands, and teaching courses in instrumental conducting and music education. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Baumanis served as the Assistant Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Central Missouri. Dr. Baumanis has also served within the music education community on the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) repertoire committee, on Music For All’s Educational Advisory Team in 2023, and is the co-Author of GO ON, Tell Your Story! Voices of Women Band Directors, a book that features the shared experiences of over 100 women band directors, published by GIA Publications in 2023. In January 2023, she was appointed Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, a professional orchestra serving the New Brunswick, NJ area for the past 62 years.

A graduate of The Florida State University College of Music, Dr. Baumanis received her bachelor’s in Instrumental Music Education, her master’s degree in Instrumental Conducting, and her PhD in Music Education and Instrumental Conducting. Prior to graduate school, she taught public school in south Florida as the Associate Director of Bands and Orchestras at J.P. Taravella High School and the Director of Orchestras at Ramblewood Middle School.

An active performer, educator and researcher, Dr. Baumanis has presented her research internationally, including at the NAfME Research Symposium, the CBDNA National Conference and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. Most recently, her research has focused on developing a conductor’s baton that records data collected from a conductor’s expressive gestures. She hopes to implement this technology in the conducting classroom as a technological tool to assist beginning conductors in developing their craft.

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Peter Randsman, founder of Randsman Artists, represents more than 60 international singers, instrumentalists, conductors, and composers - after a long and storied performance career of his own! Peter drops in for a chat with Marty and Jackie about all things artist representation!

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Staff Sargeant Chelsea Friedlander of the US Army Chorus, "Pershing's Own", rings in our second season with her story of surviving boot camp to earn a spot in this prestigious musical ensemble, and all the joys and quirks of one of the most unique music jobs out there!

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