Scherzo Orchestra (advanced)
	Mr. Doug Elmore Mr. Elmore brings to the podium over twenty years of quality musical experience in the Louisville-Southern Indiana area. He is currently serving his 25th year as Orchestra Director at Floyd Central High School and Highland Hills Middle School. A 1986 graduate of the DePauw University Music School, Mr. Elmore completed his graduate work in Applied Double Bass at the University of Louisville in 2001. He has led the FCHS and HHMS Orchestras to more than 70 Superior (Gold) ratings over the past 24 years. During this same time, the FCHS Orchestra has performed at the last twenty-one ISSMA State Finals Contests (the longest continuous streak of any orchestra in Indiana), earning State Champion honors in 1995 and Runner-up honors in 1996 and 1998.  Orchestras under Mr. Elmore’s direction have performed 5 times at the Indiana Music Educators Association (IMEA) state convention.In 2010 the Floyd Central Orchestra performed at Lincoln Center in New York, NY.  In addition to his school teaching, he is currently in his 20th year with the Floyd County Youth Symphony, and his 15th as a Music Director. An active clinician and guest conductor, Mr. Elmore has served on the staff at both the Great Lakes Music Camps in Indiana, and the Kentuckiana Music Festival at U of L. Since 1996, he has conducted All-County and All-Region Orchestras in Carmel, Indiana; Merrilville, Indiana; three times in Louisville, Kentucky; and South Bend, Indiana. He has also taught on the faculty of the internationally known Aebersold Jazz Workshop.  He has served on the faculty of Bellarmine University as Adjunct Instructor of Jazz Bass, and is currently serving on the faculty of the University of Louisville as Adjunct Instructor of String Methods for Music Educators. He conducted the orchestras at the 2009 University of Louisville Suzuki Institute.   As a performer on the double bass, Mr. Elmore has worked with Music Theatre of Louisville, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Derby Dinner Playhouse, the Dick Sisto Trio, the Jerry Tolson Quartet, the Ron Jones Quartet, the Mike Tracy Trio, the Platters, the Ron Haydn Trio, vocalist Sara Stivers, and his own trio is currently playing a weekly engagement at the Louisville Marriott Hotel.  In 1998 he was awarded an Eli Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship which he used to research and write "Megan's Musing", a jazz piece for high school orchestra. From this beginning, he founded and wrote for "Celtic Fire" an award-winning jazz, ethnic, and bluegrass string group at FCHS.  In 20010, he was selected as Floyd Central HS’ “Teacher of the Year”. Mr. Elmore currently resides in New Albany with his wife of twenty years, April, who teaches science at Highland Hills MS, and their three children: Megan, a Freshman violinist at Butler University; Ian, a sophomore bassist bassist); and Claire, an 8-year old cellist.
Cantabile Orchestra
	Dr. Brenda Brenner Brenda Brenner is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and is Co- Director of the Indiana University String Academy. She specializes in the area of string music education, teaching applied violin and courses in violin and string pedagogy. Her String Academy students have been featured in concerts in major venues throughout the United States and Europe, including several tours of France, as well as Spain, Sweden, and Japan. These concerts feature fifteen of the most gifted teenage string players from throughout the United States who all study privately as soloists but perform as a string orchestra. Her String Academy students have won numerous competitions and enjoy leadership roles in chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the country. In addition to her regular teaching duties, Brenner directs an experimental violin teaching program at Bloomington’s Fairview Elementary School—a program enthusiastically supported and funded by the IU Jacobs School of Music. The program provides free violin lessons during the curricular day to first and second graders who come from underprivileged and underachieving backgrounds and is aimed to promote societal change by giving youth a positive way to redefine themselves through music. A research project which will measure the cognitive and academic effects of early instrumental music study, the program has been an unparalleled success and may serve as a model for similar programs throughout this country. Brenner grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and received Bachelor’s degrees in violin performance and music education from Wichita State University. Her Master’s and Doctorate in Musical Arts are from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg, Donald Weilerstein, and the Cleveland Quartet. As a member of the award-winning Augustine Quartet, she played concerts throughout the United States and was also a finalist and prize winner in several competitions, including the Banff International Quartet Competition, Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and Cleveland Competition, and has worked with the Cleveland, Tokyo, Juilliard, American and Emerson Quartets. Brenner is a sought-after clinician and frequently gives master classes for colleges and universities throughout the world.