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For more
information contact:
Cynthia
Kreiner, Manager
(330) 206 - 6428
asomanager@neo.rr.com
The Alliance Symphony
P. O. Box 3836
Alliance, OH 44601
(330) 829-8102
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Becky Stinson, Conductor
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 Rebecca
D. Stinson graduated from Mount
Union College
in 1994 with a Bachelor of Music Education degree and is currently
working towards a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting at Kent State University
. Along with conducting the Alliance Symphony, she serves as an adjunct
flute instructor in the Mount Union College Preparatory Division.
Rebecca teaches elementary music in the West Branch
School District
at Damascus Elementary.
When she is not conducting the Alliance Symphony,
she serves as the principle flutist and is also an active A.S.O. board
member. She, her husband Matthew Stinson, and her late father, Jim
Dixon, were co-founders of Youth Music Alliance, a local non-profit
organization that assists school students who wish to participate in
their school's instrumental music program. She is a member of the Aldersgate United Methodist
Church where she
sings in the chancel choir and directs the youth choir.
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Elaine Anderson, Associate Conductor
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 Dr.
Anderson is an associate professor of music at Mount Union
College where she
teaches cello, chamber music, orchestral literature, theory and music
appreciation classes, and conducts the Repertory Strings Chamber
Orchestra.
Dr. Anderson holds a D.M.A. in cello performance
from the University of Alabama, a M.M. in performance and theory
from the Manhattan School of Music, and a B.M. in string education from
Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
She served as a member of the Brevard
Music Center
cello faculty in North
Carolina from 1996 - 2005. Currently, she
serves as a frequent sub in the cello sections of the Akron and Youngstown Symphonies and
enjoys her frequent appearances as a chamber musician.
Her chamber music studies have included coachings with
the American String Quartet and the Cadek Trio; orchestral studies
mentors include Nathan Stutch and Carlton McCreery. Dr. Anderson has
performed in masterclasses for Yo-Yo Ma and New York Philharmonic
principal cellist Carter Brey. She has been a featured soloist with
orchestras in Minnesota, Alabama, Ohio, North Carolina and South
America. Prior to joining the faculty at Mount Union
College, Dr. Anderson
performed with several orchestras in the Southeast and held teaching
positions in Georgia
and Alabama.
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