Summer Concerts: Chamber Music Winona
Donald Lovejoy, conductor

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Chamber Music Winona is an ensemble comprised of regional professional musicians with the mission of presenting music for large chamber ensembles. The performers range from faculty members at Winona State University, Luther College, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and University of Wisconsin-Madison to members of the Rochester Orchestra, La Crosse Symphony, and other regional orchestras. The ensemble, under the direction of Donald Lovejoy, was formed in 2005 and has presented two concerts each season.

Most of the repertoire presented by Chamber Music Winona is music written for the orchestral wind section, occasionally expanded to include strings, piano and percussion. Their most recent performance included Francis Poulenc's Aubade, a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra, and the chamber version of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring suite.

Dr. Donald Lovejoy is the Director of Bands and Coordinator of Brass Studies at Winona State University. In addition to directing the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the WSU Pep Band, he also teaches conducting, and trumpet. Dr. Lovejoy's academic degrees include a bachelors degree in music education from Asbury College (KY), a masters degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Regina (Canada), a masters degree in trumpet performance from Northwestern University (IL), and a doctorate in conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

From 1979 to 1986, Dr. Lovejoy was assistant principal trumpet with the Regina Symphony Orchestra (Canada). Dr. Lovejoy has also performed with the South Bend Symphony, Northwest Indiana Symphony, and with various regional orchestras in the Chicago area and has maintained an active schedule as a freelance trumpet player and conductor. His principal trumpet teachers were Vincent Cichowicz, Luther Didrickson, George Vosburgh, and Bart Jones.

As an orchestral conductor, Dr. Lovejoy has been the music director for the Regina Community Orchestra (Canada) and the Monona Chamber Music Society (WI) and is currently the music director of Chamber Music Winona. He has also been an assistant conductor for the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra. As a wind conductor, Dr. Lovejoy has been the Director of Bands at Bethel College (IN) and Saint Xavier University (IL). His principal conducting teachers have been James Smith, David Becker, John Paynter, Simon Streatfield, and Howard Leighton-Brown. He has also participated in conducting masterclasses with Herbert Blomstedt, Ian Robertson, Allan McMurray, Thomas Lee, and Eugene Corporon. Since 1985, Dr. Lovejoy has been active as a clinician in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, working with both bands and orchestras at the middle school, high school and college levels.

Dr. Lovejoy is a member of several professional organizations, including: College Band Directors National Association, MENC, International Trumpet Guild, Conductors Guild, and the League of American Orchestras.