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The Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra |
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Music Director & Conductor |
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Maestro Fagin has appeared as conductor with the New Jersey Ballet; Colorado
Symphony; Korean National Symphony; Concordia Orchestra; Eugene Symphony;
New
World Symphony, Chicago String Ensemble; and numerous regional orchestras.
He
was Assistant Professor and Conductor of the Orchestras at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and later Hofstra University. He has taught at Yale
University; The Julliard School; The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music; and New
York University. He is Founder and Director of the New York Conducting
Studio; his students conduct major and regional orchestras, on Broadway, and
attend America's most prestigious music conservatories.
Mr. Fagin served as Musical Director and Conductor at the Yale Repertory
Theatre in New Haven for seven years and held the same position at the
American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge for three seasons. His many theater
conducting credits include THE THREE PENNY OPERA with Sting on Broadway and
two Dierdre Murray/Cornelius Eady music theater collaborations; original
music composing credits include Harry Kondoleon plays and RADIO RHAPSODY, a
Paul Whiteman retrospective commissioned by Marin Alsop and the Concordia
Orchestra. Most recently, he composed, orchestrated, and conducted the music
for CHARLOTTE: LIFE? OR THEATER?, and music theater work based on the life
and work of artist Charlotte Salomon, which received its world premiere
performance to critical acclaim at the American Music Theater
Festival/Prince
Music Theater in Philadelphia in March, 2001.
He has orchestrated music for the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra; Carnegie
Hall; Madison Square Garden; Sandy Duncan; Tom Chapin; and for recordings by
Rob Fisher & The Coffee Club Orchestra and the Manhattan Rhythm Kings. As a
cellist and bassist he recorded with the fold musician Bill Crofut. Fagin's edition of Kurt Weill's HAPPY END is published by European American
Music. Peer Southern Concert Music publishes his RAG CONCERTINA, an
arrangement of three rags for piano solo and orchestra. His transcriptions
of
works by Duke Ellington are available through The Smithsonian Jazz
Anthology.
Maestro Fagin studied composition with George Crumb and George Rochberg at The
University of Pennsylvania; cello with Orlando Cole of The Curtis Quartet;
and conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller at the Yale School of Music, where
he
received the first Doctorate Degree in Conducting ever awarded by Yale. He
was a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival; Herbert Blomstedt's
Conducting Institute in Loma Linda, CA; and was twice chosen for the
Conducting Seminar at Tanglewood. He pursued post-graduate conducting
studies
at The Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, and holds a Certificate from the Kodaly
Institute of Pedagogy in Kescemet, Hungary.
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Gary S. Fagin has conducted, composed, orchestrated and arranged music
for symphony orchestras across the country; ballet; Broadway and
Off-Broadway; public radio, regional and repertory theaters; and university
orchestras.
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Artistic Advisor & Assistant Conductor |
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Edmund A. Moderacki
serves as Artistic Advisor and Assistant Conductor of the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Moderacki graduated with honors from Montclair State College. He holds a MA from Hunter College (CUNY) and has done additional studies at Seton Hall University, Newark State College and the Center for Understanding Media. He is currently a music teacher in the River Vale (NJ) Schools, and has been conductor of the Waldwick Concert Band since 1978. Active in education and the arts, Mr. Moderacki is president-elect of the Music Educators of Bergen County, Inc., serves as a member of the Steering Committee of Bergen County Teen Arts and sits on the boards of several arts and education organizations. He was also the conductor of the 2001 All Bergen County High School Band and RSO Project Symphony 2003 at River Vale, Riverdale, and Wayne.
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General Manager |
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Recently, she has designed and implemented a campaign in the alternative
health field, lecturing on, and practicing a specialized Japanese healing
art, known as Seimei. "Music and healing are inseparable,'' says Ms. Todd,
"it seems so natural to be involved in both".
With a fresh perspective and unique management style, Karin hopes to bring
the symphony into exciting new territory. Enthusiastic about the opportunity
to utilize her knowledge in both the artistic and management fields, she
feels "there's no better time than right now, to nourish and restore the
heart of our community through one of life's most joyous expressions -
music".
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Karin Todd,
the newest member of the staff, has served as a consultant for
the Trenton Symphony Orchestra and as personal assistant to it's Conductor
and Musical Director. She attended Montclair State University and The School
of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Karin brings to the RSO a broad range of
experience directing all aspects of media relations, public relations,
commercial production and marketing for programs in both classical and jazz
venues. Ms. Todd has spent many years promoting the arts, as well as teaching
viola and piano, privately. Karin has a strong musical background, coming
from a family of notable musicians and composers.
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