Alumni
The Alumni Association of ISO strives to keep alumni connected with ISO, immersed in music making, and sharing their gifts with current ISO students. Through the Alumni Association, former ISO members can play chamber music together, socialize, and even perform with the ISO Symphony! Connections with current ISO students come in the form of tutoring and mentoring, providing internships, and attending ISO’s concerts!
Let us know where you are and what you’re doing! Update us at btesh@thirdstreetmusicschool.org and our mailing list to keep current on ISO news.
Here is what a few ISO alumni are doing
Beatrice Affron
Music Director and Conductor, Pennsylvania Ballet
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Igor Begelman
Faculty of Brooklyn College Conservatory and Sarah Lawrence College and soloist with orchestras and chamber music groups.
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Joseph Bousso
Resident conductor (1st Kapellmeister) at the opera house in the Koblenz Opera House (Germany) winner of the 1st International Conducting Competition in Bucharest, Rumania. He was resident conductor of the Opera House in Weimar, Germany from 2008-2011.
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Matthew Dine
Principal Oboe, American Ballet Theater Orchestra, Oboist with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and professional photographer
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James Gaffigan
Conductor, principal guest conductor, effective with the 2012-13 season with the Gürzenich Orchestra (Cologne, Germany). In addition to conducting concerts he will lead the orchestra in CD recording projects and in productions presented by the city’s Oper Köln. Gaffigan is chief conductor of Switzerland’s Lucerne Symphony and principal guest conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Ariana Ghez
Former Principal oboe of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Tito Muñoz
Music Director of the Phoenix Symphony and previously Music Director of the Opéra national de Lorraine and Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, and Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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Carin Miller Packwood
Principal Bassoon, Oregon Symphony
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David Rozenblatt
Drummer with Barry Manalow’s band and adjunct professor at Hofstra University
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Michael Leonhart
Trumpet player with Steely Dan; youngest artist to win a GRAMMY at age 17
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Daniel Matsukawa
Principal Bassoon, Philadelphia Orchestra; faculty member at Curtis Institute of Music and Temple University
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Brian Worsdale
Founder and Conductor of ISO Symphonic Band and Artistic Director of French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts
Ljova Zhurbin
Composer, arranger, and violist. Original compositions for film, TV, dance, and the concert stage; arranging for Yo-Yo Ma, the Kronos Quartet, Jay-Z, and Osvaldo Golijov, among others. Featured in a New York Times article in August 2010.
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