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2025 Music Projects & Level 2


Webinar

9/26/2023 9:00:00 AM

2025 Music Projects & Level 2

2025

White, Cassandra

Lisa Burgess

Go to Meeting

Comments Closed

Materials

Agenda Files

gps-scp-rubric-2025.pdf
AgendaMusic2andSCP.pdf
Scoregrid-Music2andproj.pdf

Panelists (5)

Guinn, Scott

  • County: Sarasota County

Bio:

County: Sarasota

Bio

  • Director of Development at Sarasota Opera, Sarasota, Florida
  • Previously, Interim Director of Development for Asolo Repertory Theatre; Individual Giving Associate and Major Gifts Associate; and Director of Development at Knoxville Opera; Florida Grand Opera
  • Worked with New York City Opera, Sarasota Opera, El Paso Opera, Opera Memphis, Knoxville Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and Asheville Lyric Opera, as well as performances with the South Carolina Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and Augusta Symphony
  • Former Board of Directors for the Humane Society of Manatee County
  • National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions and in 2006 was the American finalist in the Opéra National de Paris global competition
  • Graduate of the University of South Carolina and University of Tennessee

Preisser, Gabe

  • County: Orange County

Bio:

County: Orange

Bio

  • General Director, Opera Orlando, Orlando, Florida
  • Previously, Opera Singer at Minnesota Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Des Moines Metro Opera, and Pensacola Opera, and Performed Fantastic Mr. Fox with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which won the Grammy Award for best new opera recording in 2020
  • M.M., Vocal Performance, University of Houston; B.M. and B.A., Vocal Performance and Commercial Music, Florida State University

Hughes, Catherine

  • County: Palm Beach County

Bio:

County: PalmBeach

Bio

  • Director of Education and Community Engagement, Palm Beach Opera, Palm Beach, Florida
  • Previously instructor at Saint Joseph’s University and West Chester University in the Philadelphia area
  • Received grants from the Belgian American Educational Foundation, the American Musicological Society, and the Council for European Studies
  • Editorial board for Opera Journal, the publication of the National Opera Association
  • Ph.D. and M.A., Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Helfrich, Paul

  • County: Orange County

Bio:

County: Orange

Bio

  • Executive Director, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Orlando, Florida
  • Previously, President & CEO, Dayton Performing Arts Alliance; President, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra; Executive Director, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra; and Executive Director, Erie Philharmonic
  • B.M. Music and M.A., Arts Administration, Indiana University - Bloomington

Gartner, Alex

  • County: Escambia County

Bio:

County: Escambia

Bio

  • Artistic and Executive Director of the Pensacola Children’s Chorus, Pensacola, Florida
  • Previously, Director of Traditional Music, Epiphany United Methodist Church; Founding Music Director, Commonwealth Artists Summer Theatre; Assistant Director of the Cincinnati Youth Choir; and Arts Education National Advisory Committee, Americans for the Arts
  • M.M., Music Education, University of Florida; B.M.E, Choral Music Education, University of Cincinnati; and Certificate, Arts & Culture Strategy, University of Pennsylvania