The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble will welcome guest conductor Cynthia Johnston Turner to the podium for a free concert on Tuesday, February 21, at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall. Turner is director of wind ensembles at Cornell University.
The program will feature Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Toccata Marziale,” Igor Stravinsky’s “Octet,” and music of Mercure, Lindroth, and J. S. Bach.
Cynthia Johnston Turner is an active conductor, festival adjudicator, and clinician, in both the United States and Canada. Before joining the Cornell faculty in the fall of 2004, she taught at the University of Rochester, where she directed the Wind Symphony and served as Director of Music at Parkside High School, Dundas, Canada. Earlier in her career Turner taught middle school beginning instrumental music in Toronto and choral music in Switzerland. She currently serves as a faculty member with the summer Performing Arts Institute at Pennsylvannia's Wyoming Seminary and as a guest conductor with the Syracuse Society of New Music.
For more information, call 274-3717.
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