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8059: Culture in Davenport (fwd)
From: Anez14u@aol.com
My Haitian son & I live in an area that is remarkably lacking in
opportunities for him to continue to maintain an identity with his homeland.
With the exception of a surprising number of people who travel to Haiti on
missionary trips and an excellent and large collection of Haitian Art and at
the local museum, there is no representation of Haiti here at all. My thrill
when reading the following news release leaves me unable to resist sharing it
with my many friends on the list.
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Jean Montes
conductor, S.A.U.S.O.
Jean Montes is currently pursuing his doctorate of music arts in orchestra
conducting at the University of Iowa under the widely renewed leadership of
Dr. William LaRue Jones. Growing up in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he studied the
cello at the Holy Trinity School of Music. In December 1990, Mr. Montes left
Haiti after winning a full scholarship to pursue his bachelors degree in
cello performance at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In
August 1995, he received an assistantship at the University of Akron in Ohio
where he went to complete his masters in music education. Mr. Montes then
spent four years in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin where he was the
orchestra director for the Kaukauna Area School teaching K-12 string
instruments and ensembles. He was also a cello specialist at the Lawrence
University Arts Academy. Additionally, he conducted several youth orchestras
including the Green Bay Concert Orchestra. He also coached youth orchestra
cello and viola sections in Oshkosh, Appleton and Green Bay while performing
in cello recitals at the Lawrence University Conservatory and with the Fox
Valley and Green Bay Symphonies. Mr. Montes shares his talents with his
homeland by frequently conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique Ste Trinite
and the Holy Trinity Youth Orchestra. He spends his summers teaching and
directing ensembles at summer music camps including the Holy Trinity Music
Camp in Haiti where he is the assistant director. Since his arrival in Iowa
in August of 2000, Mr. Montes has been managing the orchestra for the
University of Iowa, CO-directing the all University String Orchestra and
directing the Iowa City High Cello Choir. He is looking forward to directing
next year the newly founded St. Ambrose University Symphony Orchestra in
Davenport.
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Thanks for letting us share this thrill
Tommy & Sthomas Henderson