The Philharmonic Winds

John Boyd, one of the most dynamic wind conductors in the United States today, is equally at home with educational and professional organizations. He has guest conducted The U.S. Army Band twice, United States Army Field Band, and conducted/lectured three times at the Royal Northern College of Music at Manchester in the United Kingdom and [...]

Dai Zhonghui has held the position of Principal Trumpet of the National Symphony Orchestra of China for the past eight years. With this orchestra, he has played in Germany, England, Austria, South America, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and more than twenty cities in mainland China. He joined the faculty of the Central Conservatory of [...]

Zechariah studied piano under Ong Lip Tat, harmony from Phoon Yew Tien and counterpoint from Leong Yoon Pin while working on his Diploma of Music from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In addition to receiving the Hiebert and Gunda Scholarship award to work on his Master of Piano from the University of Kansas, Zechariah [...]

Composer, conductor, educator and pianist Dr Robert Casteels believes that these roles are fundamentally interrelated in the kaleidoscope of activities that is music making. Casteels has conducted more than 50 professional orchestras in 20 countries in a repertoire of 600 works ranging from the early classics to contemporary music, from symphonic to vocal and dance [...]