KYLE PRESCOTT, DMA
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR
Conductor Kyle Prescott earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Idaho
as well as earned both his Master of
Music in Conducting and his Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting
degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, where his principal conducting
teacher was Jerry F. Junkin. Additionally,
he has studied with exemplary conductors through fourteen international
conducting symposia.
Dr. Prescott is currently the Associate Chair and Director
of Bands in the Department of Music at Florida Atlantic University. His responsibilities include conducting the
University Wind Ensemble and Chamber Players, teaching the graduate instrumental
conducting sequence and coordinating all aspects of FAU’s comprehensive
university bands program.
Dr. Prescott has conducted orchestras and bands in the
Pacific Northwest. Ensembles under his
direction have been invited to perform at the Northwest Regional Conference of
the National Association for Music Education in 1997 and 1999, the Southern
Conference of the College Band Directors National Association in 2008 and the
Florida Music Educators Association Conference in 2009. A strong proponent of music for the next generation, Dr. Prescott has conducted nine world premieres in recent years, including works
by Arthur Weisberg, Scott McAllister and Libby Larsen.
His research in score analysis and rehearsal has been
published in three separate volumes of the Teaching
Music Through Performance in Band series. Dr. Prescott’s wife, Suzanne, is an
accomplished double bassist and graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music,
and his son, Gabriel plays the trumpet. He is the current Florida State Chair
of CBDNA, and Conductor and Music
Director of South Florida’s professional wind band, the Florida Wind Symphony.
SUSAN OTT RODBERG
STRING ORCHESTRA
CONDUCTOR
Susan Ott Rodberg is a National
Certified Teacher in Early/Middle Childhood Music/Orchestra. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Otterbein College in Westerville,
Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. Her major instrument was violin and she minored in
cello. After graduation, she began her
studies of the Suzuki Method at
various Summer Institutes and continued for the next 10 summers.
Mrs. Rodberg has extensive experience teaching orchestral
strings to people between the ages of 2 and 92.
Her experiences include teaching Jr. High General Music, Band and
Orchestra in Marysville, Ohio; teaching Suzuki Violin Method at “Twinklers to Sizzlers...Suzuki Violin,”
a private violin studio in Norfolk, VA; teaching the Suzuki Violin Method at
Capital University in Bexley, Ohio; and
teaching strings at a private studio that met at Palm Beach Atlantic College,
as well as being an Adjunct Instructor
of Strings at the former Palm Beach Junior College in Lake Worth, FL. She is currently teaching at U.B.
Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts in Palm Beach County.
During 15 years of teaching at U.B. Kinsey, Mrs. Rodberg has
nurtured an after-school class of nearly 40 students to its current program of
200 second through fifth graders who elect to take strings during the regular
school day, and nearly 200 kindergarten and first grade students who learn to
play the violin as part of their Fine Arts Curriculum. The Orchestra has traveled and performed in
Music Festivals in and out of state, and earned top awards for performance
every year. Of the string students who
began their music studies at UBK, 100% have earned partial or full scholarships
to college to play in their college orchestra.
In 2006, Mrs. Rodberg was named the Youth Orchestra of Palm
Beach County's "Music Teacher of the
Year.” In January 2007, she became
the Conductor of the Youth Orchestra of Palm Beach County's String Orchestra. She
is a member of American String Teachers Association, and in 2010 hosted an ASTA
sponsored “Play-a-Piece Day” for elementary school-aged string students. Mrs. Rodberg assumed the duties of Chamber
Music Coordinator for the Youth Orchestra of Palm Beach County in August
2011.
LARRY NEMZIN
BRASS CHAMBER
ENSEMBLE COACH
Larry Nemzin is a former professional musician who was the
founder and lead performer of the national touring band, New York Express. In addition, he was the lead singer and
featured trumpet soloist with the United States Navy Show Band.
While in service to our country, Mr. Nemzin was also an
instructor at the Navy School of Music.
He currently teaches music privately, and has done so for the past 43
years.
LAURA SINCLAIR
LAURA SINCLAIR
ADVANCED STRING
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE COACH
Laura Sinclair earned her Bachelor of Music and Diploma
in Chamber Music Performance from
Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She also holds a Master of Music from the prestigious Cleveland Institute of Music and has recently earned her Professional Performance Certificate
from Lynn University Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton, Florida.
As a professional musician, Ms. Sinclair has performed at
numerous festivals including Domaine Forget, Casalmaggiore, Orford, Bang on a
Can, Tafelmusik, and Bowdoin. She has
performed with the Boca Raton Symphonia and is currently a violist with the Symphony of the Americas in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida.
In addition to her busy performance schedule, Ms. Sinclair
is a part-time String teacher at Plumosa School of the Arts as well as a
private viola/violin instructor in Palm Beach County, Florida.
BEGINNER STRING
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE COACH
Kelsey Lin earned her Bachelor
in Music Performance from Lynn University Conservatory of Music. She is also former musician of the Youth
Orchestra of Palm Beach County.
Kelsey is a private teacher to beginner String students in
Palm Beach County as well as a part-time String instructor for a newly
established String program at Santa Luces High School in Lake Worth, Florida.
