Bonner serves as a graduate teaching assistant studying conducting with Steven D. Mark Bonner, Jr, is a music educator, composer and clinician from Memphis, Tennesee, pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory. Upcoming premieres include a new dance piece called On Trac|< for The Glimmerglass Festival, La Cuna for Khemia Ensemble, and a new chamber orchestra work for Gabriela Lena Frank’s Composing Earth initiative with support from New Music USA.īenavides has studied at the Santa Clara University, San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of Southern California, where he is currently teaching as a lecturer of music theory while finishing his DMA. The pair are also developing an opera about civil rights icon Dolores Huerta.

He and Koch will premiere a new opera, Tres Minutos, with Music of Remembrance in 2022 with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts. His opera Pepito (libretto by Marella Martin Koch) was premiered by the Washington National Opera. He has worked with groups such as the Washington National Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, MassOpera, West Edge Opera, Nashville Opera, Shreveport Opera, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and Friction Quartet. In Washington, Jacko also worked in the Music Department at the National Gallery of Art, where he served as Cover Conductor for the National Gallery of Art Orchestra.Nicolas Lell Benavides’ music has been praised for finding “…a way to sketch complete characters in swift sure lines…” ( Washington Post) and cooking up a “jaunty score touches of cabaret, musical theater and Latin dance.” ( OPERA NEWS). Jacko served as Music Director of the Maryland Sinfonietta and the University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra as well as staff conductor for the Capital City Symphony, the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and the Youth Orchestras of Prince William. Immediately prior to teaching at Booker T., while living in the nation's capital, Dr. because of the astonishing growth that this school inspires in both its students and faculty. He has treasured each day, week, month, and year at Booker T. Since then, he has served as Head of Orchestral Studies at Booker T., and he has led the Music Conservatory since 2019. Michael Jacko grew up in the Metroplex and returned to Dallas in 2015 from the Washington, DC area. Music Conservatory Director / Orchestra / Music Theory Young Women’s STEAM Academy at Balch Springs Middle School.Young Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred F.Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted West Dallas STEM School Program at Pinkston.Thelma Elizabeth Page Richardson Elementary School.School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A.School of Health Professions at Yvonne A.School for the Talented and Gifted in Pleasant Grove.School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A.Collins Sorrells School of Education and Social Services at Yvonne A. Personalized Learning Preparatory at Sam Houston.Personalized Learning Academy at Highland Meadows.Montessori Academy at Onesimo Hernandez.Robinson School of Business and Management at Yvonne A. Mark Twain School for the Talented & Gifted.Lincoln High School and Humanities/Communications Magnet.Lenore Kirk Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff.Polk Center for Academically Talented and Gifted John Lewis Social Justice Academy at Oliver Wendell Holmes.Jimmie Tyler Brashear Elementary School.Jill Stone Elementary School at Vickery Meadow.Starks Math, Science and Technology Vanguard Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School.Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy at James W.George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary School.George Bannerman Dealey Montessori Academy.Francisco “Pancho” Medrano Junior High School.Botello Personalized Learning Elementary School Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary School.Early College High School at El Centro Campus Haynes, III Global Preparatory Academy at Paul Quinn College Dallas Hybrid Preparatory at Stephen J.Bryan Adams High School Leadership Academy.Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Biomedical Preparatory at UT Southwestern.Benjamin Franklin International Exploratory Academy.Manns High School and Middle School DAEP/Elementary DAEP Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy at A.Adelfa Botello Callejo Elementary School.

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