S'TETSCMUNIVERSITY
DAVID BJELLA
A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cellist David Bjella has a multi-faceted
career as a teacher, chamber musician, orchestral player, and soloist. He
is Professor of Cello at Stetson University as well as Co-Principal of the
IRIS Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Michael Stern. He was a
member of the Inman Piano Trio for 13 years. He is one of the featured
IRIS chamber musicians for the Naxos released CD "Music of Stephen
Hartke" which was chosen by the New York Times as a Top Ten
Classical Recording of 2003.
Mr. Bjella has been on the faculty at the Orfeo Festival in Italy, the Rocky
Mountain Summer Conservatory in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the
Bellingham Festival in Washington state, the Quartz Mountain Festival in
Oklahoma, the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, the Bay Area
Music Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Cuerdas de Enlace, a
performing and teaching festival in Honduras. As soloist, he has appeared
with many regional and college orchestras in the Southeast and Midwest;
he has also been Principal Cellist of the Florida Symphony, Orlando
Philharmonic, Southwest Florida Symphony and the Annapolis Symphony.
ANTHONY HOSE
Anthony Hose is the Director of Orchestras at Stetson University;
Principal Conductor, Welsh Chamber Orchestra; Artistic Director,
Beaumaris Festival; and Head of Music Emeritus, Welsh National Opera.
His European orchestra work includes Ankara Symphony, Berlin
Symphony, Budapest Concert, Icelandic Symphony, Rhine Philharmonic,
Munich Bach Collegium, Suisse Romande, London Philharmonic, Royal
Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Mozart Players,
English Chamber and BBC Scottish. He frequently conducts the Orlando
Philharmonic.
His opera career began at Glyndebourne and includes Covent Garden,
Wexford, Milan, Welsh National, Lyons, Geneva, Gothenburg and
Icelandic Opera. His repertoire of over 90 operas, ranges from Handel to
Tippett and includes most of Mozart, Verdi, and Puccini. He founded the
Buxton International Festival. Opera magazine listed his "Beatrice and
Benedict" performances at Buxton in the top 30 best productions
worldwide since 1945. BBC broadcasts include Tchaikovsky's The Queen
of Spades, Hamlet (Thomas), Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The
Turn of the Screw and Albert Herring, The Servants by William Mathias,
Cavalli's Jason, and Kodaly's The Spinning Room.
STETSON
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School of Music
421 N. Woodland Blvd., Unit 8399 | DeLand, FL 32723
stetson.edu/music | concert line 386-822-8947
STETSON UNIVERSITY
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Anthony Hose, conductor
Thursday, October 3 1, 20 I 3 | 4:00 p.m.
FOA/FL-ASTA Conference I Orlando
