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BROWARD COLLEGE
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT
PRESENTS
The Broward
Symphony Orchestra

featuring
a world premiere by
Alessandra Salvati
and
Haydn’s Nelson Mass

 Saturday, April 28, 2012.
8 pm
Ralph R. Bailey Concert Hall
Broward College – Central Campus
Christopher Cicconi, Guest Conductor
Thomas Sleeper, Guest Conductor
Zoe Zeniodi, Music Director

Thomas Sleeper enjoys a highly prolific career as both composer and conductor.
Hailed by the Miami Herald as“a conductor of persuasive fluency and fiery conviction”,.
An active guest conductor in the U.S. and abroad, Sleeper has appeared
with over 30 orchestras on four continents. A strong advocate of new music, he
has conducted the premieres of works by numerous American composers, including
Henry Brant, Carlos Surinach, and Roberto Sierra. He has recorded on labels
including Albany, Centaur, and Naxos, with excellent reviews inFanfare, Gramophone
and The American Record Guide.
Sleeper is Director of Orchestral Activities at the Frost School of Music at
the University of Miami and Music Director of the Florida Youth Orchestra.

Zoe Zeniodi is Music Director of the Broward Symphony Orchestra and Associate
Conductor for the Frost Symphony Orchestra. She is also the Associate Guest
Conductor for the Alhambra Orchestra in Florida and has appeared as guest
conductor with the New Philharmonic (Florida), the National Youth Orchestra
of Spain (JONDE) and the Ensemble 21 (Florida). In addition to the standard
repertoire, Ms. Zeniodi has championed new works by living composers including
Thomas Sleeper and Frank Ticheli. In September 2010, her book “Frank Ticheli:
An American Dream” was published by VDM Verlag. . Albany Records has
recently released Zeniodi’s recording of Ticheli’s “An American Dream” as well
as Thomas Sleeper’s XENIA with internationally renowned tenor, John Duykers.
She holds a Doctorate of Music and an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting
from the University of Miami.