Our Conductors
Youth Symphony Orchestra
Guest Conductor - Enaldo Oliveira
Oliveira is a native of Brazil. He completed his DMA in
Orchestral Conducting at the University of Iowa under the tutelage of
William LaRue Jones, DMA. He has a bachelor of music degree from Santa
Marcelina College in violin performance and a master of musicology
degree from São
Paulo University where his major area of study was string pedagogy.
For five years, Oliveira was the conductor and
pedagogical coordinator for the Guri Project for the Cultural State
Secretary of São Paulo, Brazil. His responsibilities were to create
music centers in socio-economically underprivileged communities, as well
as train and coordinate the teaching techniques of one hundred teachers.
In this position, he helped to develop the program from two centers and
450 students to 30 centers and 22,000 students.
Also in Brazil, Oliveira was a member of the
São Caetano do Sul Art Foundation String Quartet. He served as violin
teacher and string coordinator at Tom Jobim School of Music and as
professional violinist/violist in orchestras in his native country.
During his doctoral degree, Oliveira was manager of the
University of Iowa Orchestras and co-director of the All-University
String Orchestra. He was also the music director of the Greater Cedar
Rapids Youth Symphony Orchestras after serving one year as conductor of
their Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, Oliveira served as music
director of Saint Ambrose University Community Symphony Orchestra. At
the University of Iowa, he was privileged to conduct each of the four
orchestras including The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, as well
as the UI Dance gala and Mostly Mozart - concert production of scenes
from four of Mozart's operas. Oliveira was recently an active member in
the Gustav Meyer Master Class with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra,
Germany. Oliveira also has had the privilege of participating in Master
Classes with Marvin Rabin, DMA and Henry Charles Smith.
Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor - Randall Mastin
Mr. Mastin is a graduate of Wartburg College,
Waverly, Iowa. Mastin teaches orchestra at Viroqua High School and
Middle School and also is the choral director of the Viroqua Concert
choir, a select Junior/Senior choral group. Prior to that he taught at
Memorial High School, Eau Claire, WI.
Mr. Mastin is active with the La Crosse Symphony as a
cellist and also as a vocalist with the Viroqua Male Chorus. He has
conducted his orchestras and choirs all over the United States and
Europe including performances in Westminster Abby and London's New
Year's Day Parade. Mastin has received several outstanding Conducting
Awards as well as awards for effective leadership and program building
abilities. He was formerly the conductor of the LYSO Philharmonic
Orchestra (1999-2003) and now looks forward to once again working
with the Philharmonic in a new and exciting phase.