Thomas
O'Connor is the Music Director and Conductor of Santa Fe Pro Musica.
Mr. O'Connor is also a highly regarded oboist who has performed extensively
on modern and historical oboes. He has performed with all of the major classical
music organizations in New Mexico including the Santa Fe Opera, the Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire and the New Mexico Symphony
Orchestra. He frequently performs outside of New Mexico with festivals and
orchestras including the International Festival at the Domaine Forget (Canada),
Oregon Bach Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Oregon Festival of American Music,
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival
(California), Maryland Handel Festival, American Bach Soloists (San Francisco),
the Bach Ensemble, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Chamber Orchestra,
and Boston Baroque. He was formerly the Artistic Director of the Ernest Bloch
Music Festival at Newport (Oregon) and also served on the faculty of Texas
Tech University. He has recordings with Sony, Telarc and Dorian including
a Grammy nominated disc of the chamber version of Mahler's Das Lied von der
Erde.
Mr. O'Connor is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and
has pursued graduate studies at the Conservatory of Music at the University
of Missouri at Kansas City and at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Musicale,
Montreux, Switzerland.
Carol
Redman, Carol Redman, flutist, has much experience in chamber music
roles, with large symphonic orchestras, opera orchestras and chamber orchestras,
as solo flutist, principal flutist, second flutist, and piccolo player. She
performs on the modern flute, the one-key baroque flute and recorder. She
has made recordings on Koch and Dorian labels (including a Grammy nominated
disc of the chamber music version of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde) for Santa
Fe Pro Musica, the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, and the Santa Fe Chamber
Music Festival. Her professional experience includes flutist with Santa Fe
Pro Musica, Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival, 20th Century Unlimited, Oregon Festival of American
Music, Ernest Bloch Music Festival (Oregon), New Mexico Symphony Orchestra,
the New Mexico Woodwind Quintet, Le Domaine Forget Music Festival (Canada),
and appearances with the Oregon Bach Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival
(California), Maryland Handel Festival, Colorado Opera Troupe, Colorado Chamber
Players, Eugene Symphony (Oregon) and festivals in Germany and Japan. Ms Redman
has coached variously Flute, Ensembles and Baroque Workshops in Kammermusik
Workshops since 2005.
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Douglas Dunston is currently Associate
Professor of Music and Music Program Director at New Mexico Tech in Socorro,
New Mexico, where he has conducted orchestral and choral concerts, operettas,
and musical theatre, and where he teaches courses in music, creativity, and
interdisciplinary problem solving. In recent years he has guest conducted the
Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra and the Claremont Concert Orchestra, and
he conducts frequently at the Animas Music Festival in Durango, Colorado, where
he specializes in large-scale chamber works integrating instrumentalists with
singers, dancers, and actors. Some of the works he has produced there include
Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, Walton's Façade, and Weill's ballet
Zaubernacht. He has also conducted orchestral performances in Schloss Esterhazy
in Eisenstadt, Austria and with the Sinfonietta Hungarica in Budapest, Hungary.