Dennis Lell, our Conductor |
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A
graduate of Hamburg High School in 1964, Dennis Lell was a member
of the music faculty of the Hamburg Central School District where
he taught woodwinds and strings from 1968 to 2001. He is the founder
and conductor of the Four Centuries Chamber Orchestra in Hamburg
which he formed in 1983. Mr. Lell has conducted the Chamber Orchestra
at the Buffalo Suzuki Strings Summer Workshop since its inception
in 1982. He also served as conductor of the Greater Buffalo Youth
Chamber Orchestra during 1983-1986. He was a guest conductor of
both the Clarence Summer Orchestra concert series in July 1990,
and of the Orchard Park Symphony during the 1997 season. In 1998,
he was appointed to the position of conductor of the Greater Buffalo
Youth String Orchestra. In 2001, he was appointed to the position
of principal conductor of the Amherst Chamber Ensembles.
Mr.
Lell also has experience in orchestra management, serving as General
Manager of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
and the Nassau Symphony Orchestra in Garden City on Long Island,
NY.
He
earned both his Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree in
1968 and Master of Music degree in 1972 from SUCNY at Fredonia.
During his undergraduate study at Fredonia, he performed as principal
clarinetist for two years in the Fredonia College Symphony and was
chosen to present an Honors Recital on the clarinet in his senior
year. While at Fredonia College, he also studied viola with Ralph
Jackno. He has studied orchestral conducting with Ascher Temkin
at the Brockport Summer Conductor's Institute, with Charles Bruch
at the Pierre Monteaux Domaine School for Advanced Conductors and
Orchestral Players in Hancock, Maine, and with Harold Farberman
at the American Symphony Orchestra League Conductor's Guild Summer
Institute in Morgantown, West Virginia. He was a Finalist in the
National Adult Conducting Competition held in LaCrosse, Wisconsin
in 1981 where he conducted in the competition's finalist concert.
He
plays viola in community orchestras and chamber groups in the Buffalo
area, enjoys gourmet cooking, and teaches skiing as a certified
Alpine ski instructor at the Holimont Ski Area in Ellicottville.
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