Maestro
Warren Cohen
Born in Montreal,
Maestro
Cohen is a musician and composer as well as a music
director. Cohen studied piano with his father Philip Cohen
and performed frequently as a solo pianist in the 1980’s and
1990’s. As the Music Director for the Kumu Kahua Theatre Group,
which specialized in locally themed productions he composed music for
numerous theatre productions, including ones based on the life of
Princess Ka’iulani. After spending some time studying in England,
he returned to Hawaii and conducted the Hawaii Chamber Orchestra.
He was appointed Music Director of the Southern Arizona Symphony
Orchestra in Tucson in 1996, a position he held until 2005. He
has studied conducting with Gustav Meier and Paul Vermel and is
currently the Music Director of the Scottsdale-based MusicaNova.
Maestro
Cohen’s talent and inventiveness as both a composer and conductor has
been recognized with 7 ASCAP awards for original composition and an
award for Adventurous Programming.
Maestro
Cohen lives in Cave Creek with his wife, soprano Carolyn Whitaker, and
their nine year old son, Graham.
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Maestro
Cal Stewart Kellogg
Cal Stewart
Kellogg
first conducted the Symphony of the Southwest in 2005 after completing
a six year collaboration with the Arizona Opera. Beginning his
career in the symphonic concert hall, he has performed with such
orchestras as the Antwerp Philharmonic, Monte Carlo Symphony, Israel
Sinfonietta and in Italy with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome,
Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the radio orchestras of
Rome, Naples and Turin. In North America, he has conducted the
Baltimore Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, Seattle Symphony, New World
Symphony, Orchestra of Illinois, Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida and
at the Spoleto Festival, U.S.A. He served as Music Director of
the Virginia Chamber Orchestra from 1993-1998.
Before
moving to Phoenix in 2000, Mr. Kellogg conducted 24 opera productions
over 16 consecutive seasons for the Washington Opera at the Kennedy
Center, Washington D.C. He has also conducted performances at the
Teatro d’Opera di Roma, Teatro San Carlo Opera of Napoli, Teatro Reggio
di Parma, Teatro San Carlos Felice di Genova, San Francisco Opera,
Santa Fe Opera, Opera Montreal, Canadian Opera Company, Houston Grand
Opera, Utah Opera, Portland Opera and Seattle Opera.
Mr.
Kellogg attained international attention as the first-prize winner of
the Gino Marinuzzi Conducting Competition and as a co-winner of the
Guido Cantelli Conducting Competition. He made his operatic debut
with the Rome Opera Leading a production of Nino Rota’s Aladino e la
Lampada Magica and New York City Opera debut conducting Gian Carlo
Menotti’s The Saint of Bleeker Street, both at the request of the
composers. The Menotti opera was featured on the PBS series Live
from Lincoln Center. He earned a diploma in conducting from the
Conservatorio di Musica S. Cecilia in Rome under the guidance of the
legendary Franco Ferrara, and also earned diplomas in composition and
bassoon. Mr. Kellogg lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife
Jamie and their sons Mark and Sean.
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