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Timothy Hankewich
thankewich@orchestraiowa.org
The 2008-2009 season will mark Timothy Hankewich's third season as the Cedar Rapids Symphony's acclaimed music director. Hankewich, who is popular with audiences and critics alike, has earned an outstanding reputation as a maestro whose classical artistry is as inspiring as his personality is engaging. While conducting Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 in D minor at a Cedar Rapids Symphony concert in January 2006, the Cedar Rapids Gazette applauded him for "directing without a musical score and displaying a command of the selection and the orchestra." In 2002, The Kansas City Star named his performance of Strauss' Four Last Songs one of "15 Great Moments in Classical Music and Dance in 2002." The previous season, following Hankewich's last-minute appearance on the podium for a challenging program of Takemitsu, Adams, Scriabin, and Debussy, critic Paul Horsley described Hankewich as a "commanding figure onstage, with a mellifluously physical conducting style that must be impossible for a player not to respond to. There is an easygoing fluidity to his phrasing, rubato and tempos and the orchestra seems especially animated."
Mr. Hankewich was with the Kansas City Symphony for seven years, three of those years as the organization's resident conductor. During his time in Kansas City, Hankewich had the rare talent to captivate a classical audience Saturday night, then turn around and thrill his youngest fans at a Sunday afternoon family concert. His knack for pleasing diverse audiences served him well at the Kansas City Symphony, where he led subscription concerts, directed the Pops and Family Series, conducted community and chamber performances and hosted the Kansas City Symphony Hour broadcast on NPR-affiliate station KCUR-FM 89.3
Winner of the prestigious Aspen Conducting Award, Hankewich enjoys an active career as a guest conductor, most recently having appeared with the Santa Rosa Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Tulsa Philharmonic, Indiana University Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Vermont Symphony, University of Evansville Orchestra, Vancouver (WA) Symphony and China Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. Hankewich also has served as artist in residence at Park University from 1999 to 2002, artistic director/conductor of the Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City from 1999 to 2002 and interim director of orchestra studies at the University of Kansas.
In 2001-2002, Hankewich was declared winner of the Geraldine C. and Emory Ford Foundation's "Immersion in New American Music for Professional American Conductors" Award. During that same season, he was one of five conductors invited to participate in the American Symphony Orchestra League's 2001 National Conductor Preview. Timothy Hankewich is a native of Dawson Creek, British Columbia. He graduated from the University of Alberta, where he earned his bachelor of music degree with honors in piano performance under Professor Alexandra Munn, then studied with Dr. Leonard Ratzlaff and earned his master's degree in choral conducting. He received his doctorate in instrumental and opera conducting from Indiana University, where his primary teachers were Imre Pallo and Thomas Baldner. His studies have included a summer at Vienna's Wiener Meisterkurs, where he worked under the tutelage of Bruno Weil.
First Violin
Takuya Horiuchi, Concertmaster
Anita Tucker, Associate Concertmaster
Courtney Cameron
Bryce Christensen
Diane Dahl-McCoy
Anna Draper
Michael Hall
John Hoffman
Spencer Howard
Linda Judiesch
Eric Kline
Second Violin
Marybrent Debth, Principal
Miera Kim, Associate Principal
Carrie Beaderstadt
Alla Cross
Jeanie DeWolf
Jerry Henry
Kelley Johnson
Shirley Phillips *
Sam Stapleton
Peter Tilly
Lucinda Van Ark
Viola
Lisa Ponton, Principal
Christine Rutledge, Associate Principal
Jessica Altfillisch
Amy Beekhuizen
Michelle Bennett
Sara Heng
Anton Jakovcic
Michael Kimber
Rochelle Rawson Naylor
Amanda Wilton *
Cello
Carey Bostian, Principal
James Ellis, Associate Principal
Anita Bullard
Wendy Enters
Diane Jacobs
Barbara Owen
Amy Phelps
Robert Swaney
Patti Tiemeyer
Bass
Volkan Orhon, Principal
Rebecca Hooper, Associate Principal
Ashley Eidbo
John Hall
Cheryl Krewer
Jeanette Welch
Flute
Jane Walker, Principal
Kimberly Helton
Hsing-I Ho
Joanne Chadima
Oboe
David Hempel, Principal
Barbara Reck
English Horn
Jillian Camwell
Clarinet
Christine Bellomy, Principal
Nadeen Fankhauser
Bass Clarinet
Lisa Marner
Bassoon
Benjamin Coelho, Principal
Greg Morton
Contra Bassoon
Eric Ring
Horns
Charles Andy Harris, Principal
Patricia Brown
Peter Kortenkamp
Dan Malloy
Bret Seebeck
Trumpet
Andrew Classen, Principal
Bryan Bennett
Aren Van Houzen
Trombone
Matthew Cameron, Principal
Benjamin Coy
Bass Trombone
Bryan Hardester, Principal
Tuba
Jeff Funderburk, Principal
Timpani
Alan Lawrence, Principal
Percussion
Tom Mackey Principal
Michael Geary
Julia Titus
Harp
Gretchen Brumwell, Principal
Keyboard
Miko Kominami, Principal
* denotes on leave
Symphony Office
119 Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
Box Office (319) 366-8203 or 800-369-TUNE
Administration: (319) 366-8206
Fax: (319) 366-5206
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Officers
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Tony Golobic, President
Wendy Dunn, Secretary
Roger Smith, Treasurer
Tim Charles, Vice President of Resource Development
Dennis Redmond, Vice President of Artistic Advisory
Jim Hoffman, Vice President of Audience Development
Jane Dufoe, Vice President of Education
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Board of Directors
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Sarah Anderson
Marty Andreas
Todd Barker
Gary Bartlett
Bonnie Beardsworth
Brian Bergstrom
Christopher Blake
Carey Downs Gibson
Steve Erickson
Joyce Finch
Vern Gebhart
David Gehring
Barbara Green
Cathy Connors Gullickson
Kathy Hall
Pat Hanick
Tim Hankewich
Carol Helbling
Debbie Jones
Barbara Knight
Dennis Kral
Jeffery Krivit
LeAnn Larson
David Lawrence
Joanna Machnowski
James Martin
Robert Massey
Timothy Michels
Richard Minette
Regan Morf
Cathie Payvandi
Barbara Pooley
Christine Rauscher
Denny Redmond
Dan Rogers
Sara Sauter
Dyan Smith
Leonard Strand
Robert Swaney
Kristin Thelander
Don Thompson
Peter Tilly
James Turner
Jane Walker
Judith Whetstine
Peggy Whitworth
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Officers
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James Sealy, President
Barbara Knapp, Vice President
Richard Minette, Secretary/Treasurer
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Board of Directors
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Jan Altorfer – new member
John Bickel
Steve Caves
Magda Golobic
Tony Golobic
Carol Hill
James Hoffman
Dick Johnson
Clay Jones
Jan Kazimour
Peter Kolln
Bob Kucharski
John Linge
Rachel Mills
Paul Morf
Patricia Sedlacek
William Shuttleworth
John Smith
Leland Smithson
James Stickley
James Tinker
Mike Wilson
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