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2025 Music Projects & Level 2
Type:
Webinar
Scheduled:
9/26/2023 9:00:00 AM
Name:
2025 Music Projects & Level 2
Fiscal Year:
2025
Staff Member:
White, Cassandra
Chair:
Lisa Burgess
Location:
Go to Meeting
Access:
Comments Closed
Public Panel Meeting Information
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