Festive Overture, Op. 96 by Dimitri Shostakovich
conducted by Anthony Maiello
Recorded live in concert by Mark Records at the
Texas Music Educators Assn. Conference
San Antonio, Texas February 2011
The selection process for Texas All-State Orchestras differs for string and wind auditions. String students audition at the regional level (28 regions) to earn the right to submit a recorded audition for the statewide competition. There is a limit to how many students may record at the regional level for each string instrument. During the second weekend in November, panels are assembled in one large metropolitan area of the state to judge the recordings and to select the students. The top players are assigned to the Symphony Orchestra, the next group to the Philharmonic Orchestra and the final group to the String Orchestra. The evening before the conference, students audition for seating within their respective orchestra. Wind and percussion players are selected from a pool that also determines members of the All-State Bands. These are all live auditions, starting first at the regional level (28 regions), then moving to the area regions (7 areas). The top scoring wind and percussion players in each area are selected for All-State and are auditioned for seating the day before the state conference. The highest ranked wind and percussion players are allowed to choose the ensemble in which they wish to participate. The Texas All-State selection process involves approximately 60,000 students who audition for band, orchestra and choir. About 1.8 percent ultimately are accepted.
Anthony Maiello, Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor, received his bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Ithaca College. He also studied at the National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C. under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, former Musical Director of the National Symphony Orchestra. Maiello also serves as a Cover Conductor for the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Maiello's many professional credits include clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor of all-state, all-state sectional, regional, district, all-county, and all-city ensembles, with appearances throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Europe, The Netherlands, and The Bahamas. He conducted musical activities for the Gold Medal Ceremonies at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Maiello's academic experience includes extensive teaching in the public schools. He served as Professor of Music and Chairman of Performance at the Crane School of Music, Potsdam College of SUNY in New York, where his duties included advanced instrumental conducting, applied clarinet, woodwind and percussion techniques; and conductor of the Crane Wind Ensemble. He is the author of Conducting: A Hands-On-Approach, Conducting Nuances: Little Things Mean A Lot, and co-author of The 21st Century Band Method. Maiello travels widely presenting clinics, lectures, and workshops, and guest conducting and adjudicating numerous music festivals. He is presently Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia where he teaches several conducting courses.
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