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Dr. Fiske has been active as a conductor in Paris, New York, Indiana, Virginia, Europe and Central America. We are proud to have this distinguished and multitalented artist as conductor and music director of the Shasta Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Fiske has been a full-time faculty member of the Shasta College Music Department since 1988, coming to us from North Carolina, where he conducted the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra and taught at the North Carolina School of the Arts. The affable musician-scholar is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and was awarded a Doctor of Music with distinction from Indiana University. Dr. Fiske was also a special student at New York's prestigious Juilliard School and won the Selly Eisemann Award at Tanglewood. He attended Fontainebleau, the Ecole Normale in Paris and the Markevitch Conductors School in Monte Carlo. Further, Dr. Fiske was a Henry Haskell Fellowship recipient for advanced study with Nadia Boulanger (a renowned French musician who was the teacher of both Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein). Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Fiske has been a conductor for the Australian Broadcasting Commission for both concerts and studio recordings. In addition to a wide variety of orchestral conducting, he is a French horn player of considerable experience, a Mahler scholar and a recital accompanist. Dr. Fiske is also a highly qualified teacher of music theory, ear training, sight-singing, solfege, and the Suzuki violin method. He is included in the Second and Third Editions of Who's Who in Entertainment. Dr. Fiske traveled to the Czech Republic where he participated in the International Workshop for Conductors with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted a chamber concert with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and soon after that returned to Europe to guest conduct Poland's Kielce Philharmonic Orchestra Last year he was a FuIbright Senior Scholar, winning a post as Conductor of the Orquesta del Conservatorio Nacional "Francisco" Diaz Zelaya in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Additionally, he conducted the Orquesta Nacional de Houduras, the Opera Nacional de Honduras, the Orquesta de La Esquela de Musica, and in San Pedro Sula, the Strings of the Esquela "Victoriano Lopez." During the second semester of the year Fiske did a special project with famed Maestro and Director of Aspen Music Festival David Zinman, observing both the Baltimore Symphony and the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, Switzerland. Further participation in a conducting workshop in Marienbad with Victor Feldbrill, observation of rehearsals of the Czech Philharmonic in Prague and of orchestras in Warsaw and Bratislava and Production of written articles rounded out an eventful year.
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