Concert Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 3 PM in the Chabot Performing Arts Center
High School: Friday, December 4th from 4-6 PM
Junior High School: Saturday, December 12th from 9-11 AM
Eugene Migliaro Corporon is the conductor of the Wind Symphony and Regents Professor of Music at the University of North Texas. As Director of Wind Studies he guides all aspects of the program, including the masters and doctoral degrees in Wind Conducting. Mr. Corporon is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach and Claremont Graduate University. His performances have drawn praise from colleagues, composers and critics alike. Mr. Corporon has held positions at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Michigan State University, the University of Northern Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, and California State University, Fullerton. His ensembles have performed at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, Southwestern Music Educators National Conference, Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention, Texas Bandmasters Association Convention/Clinic, International Trumpet Guild Conference, International Clarinet Society Convention, North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, Percussive Arts Society International Convention, National Wind Ensemble Conference, College Band Directors National Association Conference, Japan Band Clinic, and the Conference for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.
Having recorded over 600 works, including many premieres and commissions, his groups have released 100 recordings on the Toshiba/EMI, Klavier, Mark, CAFUA, Donemus, Soundmark, GIA, Albany, Naxos, and Centaur labels. These recordings, two of which have appeared on the Grammy nomination ballot, are aired regularly on radio broadcasts throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Mr. Corporon maintains an active guest-conducting schedule and is in demand as a conductor and teacher throughout the world. He is Past President of the College Band Directors National Association and a member of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles International Board. He has been honored by the American Bandmasters Association and by Phi Beta Mu with invitations to membership. Mr. Corporon, a frequent guest conductor at the Showa University of Music in Kawasaki City, Japan, has also served as a visiting conductor at the Interlochen World Center for Arts Education and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He is also the conductor of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a professional group made up of musicians from the Dallas and Fort Worth metroplex.
He is co-host with Barry Green on The Inner Game of Music video, which focuses on overcoming mental obstacles and achieving ones full potential as a performer. He also appears with James Jordan on the DVD, The Anatomy of Conducting. He is co-author of the book Teaching Music Through Performance in Band that is published in seven volumes by GIA Publications. This series includes thirteen sets of Resource Recordings by the North Texas Wind Symphony. The Teaching Music Project emphasizes the importance of comprehensive conceptual learning in the music-making process as well as the value of performing music of artistic significance.
Professor Corporon is a recipient of the International Grainger Society Distinctive Contribution Medallion as well as the Phi Beta Mu International Band Conductor of the Year Award. He has also received the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National Citation for advancing the cause of music in America, the University of North Texas Student Government Association Honor Professor Award for teaching excellence, student rapport, and scholarly publications, the American School Band Directors Association A. A. Harding Award for making significant and lasting contributions to the school band movement, and the California State University, Long Beach, College of Fine Arts and Department of Music Distinguished Alumni Awards. He is grateful to many people for their guidance and inspiration in his life. Among them are Charles Yates, Robert Reynolds, Benton Minor, Don Wilcox, Larry Maxey, Jack Hopkins, Frederick Fennell, Barry Green, James Jordan, and Carolyn Corporon.
Michael Boitz is the Chair of the Saratoga High School Performing and Visual Arts Department, Saratoga, CA, where he lives and has been teaching instrumental music for 9 years. The Saratoga High School instrumental music ensembles have developed a reputation for excellence at the state, national, and international level under the leadership of Mr. Boitz. Mr. Boitzs responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of the instrumental music department, involving over 25% of the 1,300 students enrolled at Saratoga High. The instrumental ensembles at SHS include 3 concert bands, 2 jazz bands, 2 string orchestras, a 115-member symphony orchestra, and the 190-member marching band.
In addition to his daily duties at Saratoga High School, Michael Boitz is actively involved in music education. Mr. Boitz has presented sessions for new music educators at the local and state level of the California Music Educators Association (CMEA), as well as serving as an adjudicator for CMEA Bay Section. Mr. Boitz is also currently serving as Past-President of the Santa Clara County Band Directors Association. In the California Music Educators Association, Bay Section, Mr. Boitz has served as Area V representative and Orchestra Representative
Michael Boitz has been invited on numerous occasions to guest conduct middle school honor bands, most recently the Marin County Middle School Honor Band, as well as invitations to serve as a conductor and clinician at summer music camps. In 2000 Mr. Boitz was awarded Teacher-of-the-Year by the Los Gatos-Saratoga High School District. Most recently, CMEA Bay Section at the 2003 Winter Conference awarded the Gilbert T. Freitas Award to Mr. Boitz. Michael Boitz has been listed annually in the Whos Who Among American Teachers.
Michael Boitz is a magna cum laud graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. He has completed his MA in Music Education from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where he continues to further his studies in music education and conducting. His teachers of greatest influence have included Mallory Thompson, Russell Pesola, J. Robert Hanson, Frank Bencriscutto, Ed Huttlin, John Lace, and Peter Dahlstrom. Michael Boitz was born and raised in Anoka, MN, and is a proud graduate of Anoka High School.