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Sinfonia Gulf Coast is committed to entertaining, educating and inspiring the community through imaginative and innovative musical programming. Our goal is to enrich and expand the traditional orchestral experience through unique artistic disciplines and collaborations, enhancing Northwest Florida's cultural vitality.


Music Director & Conductor
Demetrius Fuller


Innovative and energetic young conductor, Demetrius Fuller is garnering critical acclaim at home and abroad. In his sixth season as Music Director of Florida's Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Fuller has redefined the symphony experience for the Northwest Florida region offering inspiring and artistically evocative performances and exciting critics and patrons alike.

Board of Directors

Sinfonia is guided by a supportive board of directors, and we are inspired by their leadership.

                Dr. Nitin Bawa,              President

                Nancy Cottle, Esq.        Vice President

                Erin Hansen,                 Secretary

                Christine Carter, CPA   Treasurer

- Steve Barber

- Dr. Nitin Bawa

- Christine Carter, CPA

- Nancy Cottle, Esq.

- Gale Culling
- Demetrius Fuller
- Erin Hansen
- Jennifer Howard

- Kate Kelley

- Sherry Londe
- Dr. Catherine Michas 

- Denise Stegner




Sinfonia Gulf Coast
             

Violin
Mari Thomas, concertmaster
Rang Hee Kim, associate concertmaster
M. Brent Williams, assistant concertmaster
Kate Kelley, principal second
Luis Gustavo Alberto
Emily Blankenship
Nina Bledsoe
Minyoung Cho
Olena Chorna
Laney Crews
Kim Hain 
Carina de la Hoz
Monica de la Hoz
Hannah Hall
Teresa Mitchell
Hojin Kim
Sara Nodine
Ji-yeon Ryu

Percussion
Megan Arns, principal
Mike Cecil
Mike Glaze
Mike Hughes

Timpani

Scott LaBorde

 

Viola 
Daren Fuster, principal
Melissa Brewer
Mauricio Cespedes
Colleen Manseau
Gisela Rodriguez 
Jessica Sicsú
Ginger Williams
Andrew Wiseman

Flute
Robin Horne, principal
Kim Gandrup
Angela McCuiston

Clarinet
Nancy Saleeby, principal
Ron Smith
Natalie Szabo

Piano
Valerie Trujillo, principal
Daniel Smith

 

Cello
Greg Sauer, principal
Scott Crowley, acting principal
Chun-Hsin Chang
David Eccles
Jayoung Kim
Judy Link
Geneses Oliveira
James Verdier

Oboe
Sherwood Wise, principal
Alicia Alikhani

Bassoon

Stephanie Lipka, principal
Matt Fay

Trombone
Louis Lugo, principal
Andy Mitchell

 

Bass
Marcos Machado, principal
Sergio Acerb
Brian Hall
Kevin Ray
Patricia Silva
Roberto Vianna

French Horn
Carrie Strickland, principal
William Schafer 
Barbi van Horn

 

Trumpets
Ashley Hall, principal

Brian Buerkle, acting principal
Randall Haynes
Bryan Goff

Tuba
Austin Howle, principal

             

Personnel Manager Laurel Yu

Demetrius Fuller

Demetrius Fuller
Music Director & Conductor

Innovative and energetic young conductor, Demetrius Fuller is garnering critical acclaimat home and abroad. Entering his sixth season as Music Director of Florida’s Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Fuller has redefined the symphony experience for the Northwest Florida region offering inspiring and artistically evocative performances and exciting critics and patrons alike.


Serving as Music Director of the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra for four seasons, Demetrius Fuller is credited with significantly raising that symphony’s artistic level and visibility within the region. A versatile conductor, Mr. Fuller has been chosen to work with some of the world’s most prestigious conductors and orchestras. Mr. Fuller is an award recipient from the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts, the Werner Foundation, and the International Music Foundation.

In recent years, he has been invited to work with Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music and with eminent conductor Charles Dutoit and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires at the famed Teatro Colón. Maestro Fuller has conducted the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra ofLausanne, Pärnu Linnaorkester, Berlin Kammersymphonie, Lucca Festival Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, Cincinnati Philharmonia and the Edinburgh(Scotland) Youth Orchestra. Other guest appearances include performances with Poulenc’s Les Mamelles des Tiresias with the Cincinnati Opera Studio (CCM), which was awarded the National Opera Association’s coveted “Best Production.”

As anaccomplished clarinetist, Mr. Fuller has performed in the Dame Myra Hess Chamber Music Series, sponsored by the International Music Foundation and broadcast live on Chicago’s WFMT 98.7 FM. Festival appearances include the Opera Theater of Lucca (Italy), David Oistrakh (Estonia), Aspen, Cabrillo and Eastern Music Festival (USA). He has appeared in master classes with Gustav Meier, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Daniel Lewis, Marin Alsop, Neeme Järvi, Jorma Panula,Larry Rachleff, David Loebbel, and the late Robert Shaw.

An advocate of contemporary music, Fuller has premiered, commissioned and/or collaborated with composers such as Augusta Read-Thomas, Dorothy Hindman, Thomas Schneller, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Joel Hoffman, Moiya Callahan, Samuel Robles, Steven Winteregg, and Tan Dun, giving the Southeastern U.S. premiere of his Crouching Tiger Concerto.

Fuller was invited several times in 2005 and 2007 by Maestro Kurt Masur to conduct the l'Orchestre Nationale de France in a set of conductor readings. In July 2007 Fuller was one of two conductors selected world-wide to conduct the Iraqi National Symphony and three other Iraqi orchestras in a ground-breaking Unity Academy in Erbil, Northern Iraq sponsored by American Voices and the US Department of State. In 2009, New York City-based Musicians For Harmony appointed Maestro Fuller as one of three Artistic Advisors, an honor shared with musical luminaries Arnold Steinhardt of the renowned Guarneri String Quartet and violinist Cho-Liang Lin.
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