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In the 21st Century
Dr. Cynthia Johnston Turner, guest conductor
March 7, 2010
2:00 PM
artwork by Mark Frossard
The upcoming "In the 21st Century" performance will be held at the St. Francis Auditorium of the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Admission is free to the public – donations are gratefully accepted at the door.
Chamber Music Series
Next Concerts
April 18, 2010
2:00 PM
September 19, 2010
2:00 PM
November 21, 2010
2:00 PM
All Chamber Music Series performance will be held at the St. Francis Auditorium of the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Admission is free to the public – donations are gratefully accepted at the door.
2010 Concert Season
Dr. Cynthia Johnston Turner is an active conductor, festival adjudicator, and clinician, in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Canada. She returns for Concordia Santa Fe's 2010 season as guest conductor of the March 7th concert.
Dr. Johnston Turner joined the faculty of Cornell University in the fall of 2004, where she is currently the Director of Wind Ensembles. She also serves as faculty advisor to CU Winds, a student-driven organization devoted to the promotion and performance of wind music. Dr. Johnston Turner has commissioned numerous new works for wind band, many of which incorporate other artistic media, and she continues to actively promote commissions by today’s leading composers around the world. Under her direction, the Wind Ensemble was invited to perform at the College Band Directors National Association’s Eastern Division Conference in 2007. In 2008, the Merrill Presidential Scholars at Cornell recognized Cynthia as an outstanding educator, and in 2009 she was awarded the Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.
In January 2006, Dr. Johnston Turner led the Cornell Wind Ensemble on a performing and service tour to Costa Rica that included performances across the country and the donation of over fifty instruments to a rural ‘escuela de musica.’ The Cornell Wind Ensemble returned to Costa Rica in 2008, donating over eighty instruments to three music schools. Among other recent engagements, Dr. Johnston Turner has guest conducted the Provincial Honour Bands of Alberta and Ontario, Concordia Santa Fe, the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Latin American Honor Band, the Montclair State Wind Ensemble, and the Paris Lodron Ensemble in Salzburg.
She currently serves as a faculty member with the summer Performing Arts Institute at Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Seminary and as a guest conductor with the Syracuse Society of New Music, Ensemble X and the Austrian Festival Orchestra in Salzburg.
