GULF COAST SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Timothy James Bergman, Music Director
Strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion
Musicians, grades 9-12, admitted by audition
Advanced 8th-grade musicians are also considered
Weekly rehearsals on Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Gulfport High School
Tuition - $60 per semester ($120 for full season), August-April
For information, call (228) 896-4276
BENEFACTOR SPONSOR
Allen Beverages, Inc.
PASCAGOULA SCHOOL DISTRICT CONCERTS SPONSORS
Bacot/McCarty Foundation
The Wachovia Foundation
October 29, 2009
Jungle Book School Concerts
Pascagoula School District Family Interactive Center
9:00-10:00 & 10:30-11:30 a.m. (2 performances)
Reservations required
October 31, 2009
Jungle Book
Jefferson Davis Fine Arts Auditorium, MGCCC
with WINGS Performing Arts
3:00 p.m.
November 27, 2009
Grand Biloxi Holiday Peppermint Pops
Saenger Theater, Biloxi
Annual Christmas concert of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra
7:00 p.m.
February 7, 2010
Mississippi Music
Jefferson Davis Fine Arts Auditorium, MGCCC
With WINGS Performing Arts
3:00 p.m.
March 27, 2010
Barbecue Under the Oaks
Oaklawn, Pass Christian
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
April 15, 2010
Dreams – A Celebration of Diversity
Annual production of WINGS Performing Arts
Beau Rivage Theatre, Biloxi
7:00 p.m.
April TBA, 2010
Community LinkUP! (School Concerts)
Perkinston Elementary School
9:00-10:00 & 10:30-11:30 a.m. (2 performances)
The Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra was founded in 2001 as an educational program of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra.
Timothy James Bergman
Dr. Bergman is Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, appointed in 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, 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 guest 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 19th consecutive year as a music director of youth orchestras. Previous to the Gulf Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra, he held positions with the Greater Miami Youth Symphonies and Louisiana Youth Orchestras in Baton Rouge. Among other capacities, he has performed the central roles of Narrator in concert productions of Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale and Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief. Currently, he is 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.
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