GULF COAST SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA
10th ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Timothy James Bergman, Music Director

Strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion
Musicians, grades 9-12, admitted by audition
Advanced 8th-grade musicians or younger are also considered

Weekly rehearsals on Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Gulfport High School
For information, call (228) 896-4276

October 27, 2010
Pascagoula School District Concerts featuring Annie
Singing River Auditorium, Gautier
with WINGS Performing Arts of The Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
9:00-10:00 & 10:30-11:30 a.m.

October 31, 2010
Featuring Annie
Jefferson Davis Fine Arts Auditorium, MGCCC
with WINGS Performing Arts of The Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
3:00 p.m.

November 26, 2010
Grand Biloxi Holiday Peppermint Pops
Saenger Theatre, Biloxi
Annual Christmas concert of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra
7:00 p.m.

February 19, 2011
Stage Door Canteen – World War II Tribute
Jefferson Davis Fine Arts Auditorium, MGCCC
with WINGS Performing Arts of The Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
3:00 p.m.

March 26, 2011
Barbecue Under the Oaks
Oaklawn, Pass Christian
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

April TBA, 2011
Dreams
Annual production of WINGS Performing Arts of The Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
Beau Rivage Theatre, Biloxi
7:00 p.m.

April TBA, 2011
Communities LinkUP! – School Concert
Saenger Theatre, Biloxi
10:00-11:00 a.m.
For school partners of “Communities LinkUP!”

May 7, 2011
Gulf Islands Waterpark Season Opening
12:00-2:30 p.m.

The members of the Gulf Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra attend the following schools.  We salute the music programs and instructors for educating these talented musicians.

GULF COAST SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Roster as of November 8, 2010

Timothy James Bergman

Dr. Bergman is Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, appointed to that position in July 2007.  He has also been Music Director of the Gulf Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra since it was founded in 2001. 

He received degrees from Stetson University, the University of Connecticut, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Miami.  He received his training from such noted conductors as Akira Endo, Harold Farberman, David Gray, James Rives Jones, Samuel Jones, William LaRue Jones, Paul C. Phillips, Donald Portnoy, and Thomas Sleeper.

He was Assistant Conductor of the Baton Rouge Symphony during 1995-2001 and guest conducted orchestras such as the Alabama Symphony, Austin Symphony, and the Rose City Chamber Orchestra in Portland.  He has also been a faculty conductor of the University of Connecticut and the New World School of the Arts in Miami.

As an administrator, Dr. Bergman served for over two years as Executive Director of the Louisiana Alliance for Arts Education, part of a network of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and three years as Executive Director of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Conservatory of Music in Lafayette, Louisiana. 

Dr. Bergman is now in his 20th consecutive year as a music director of youth orchestras. Previously, he held positions with the Greater Miami Youth Symphonies and Louisiana Youth Orchestras in Baton Rouge.  Among other capacities, he has performed the roles of Narrator in an Acadiana Symphony production of A Soldier’s Tale by Stravinsky, and Gulf Coast Opera Theatre’s productions of Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief and scenes by Gilbert and Sullivan.  He is also an Adjunct Lecturer with Tulane University’s School of Continuing Studies on the Mississippi Coast Campus in Biloxi. His wife, Susan, is a board-certified music therapist.