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Main Menu Home About Us Contact Us MHS eNewsletter Composers Conductors Instrumentalists Vocalists Featured Artists & Groups Reviews Donors Search Site for... Links Newsflash Fun Stuff Hot Topic! Bibliography Events Myrtle on the Web Guestbook Finding the truth is not enough. What we also have to find is justice.                                ~Rigoberta Menchu Sebrina Maria Alfonso Thursday, 08 March 2007 As a student at Peabody, Ms. Alfonso studied with Frederic Prausnitz. Later she studied under Harold Farberman and Daniel Lewis at the Conducting Institute.  She was a prizewinner in the 1994 Stokowski International Company. The New York Times reported “Ms. Alfonso was overwhelmingly favored by the audience”.  And indeed she was, winning the audience poll award. During her doctoral studies at Peabody, Ms. Alfonso was offered Music Director positions with two orchestra’s and also invited to be the Artistic Director and Conductor of the John Carroll Opera Company in Annapolis.   The inspiring young Cuban-American conductor, made her New York debut conducting the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall in 1994 where her conducting was said by New York critic Bill Zakariasen in his Westsider article “Why is it the Best Never win? Wrote- “There was a new ball game though, with Sebrina Maria Alfonso, a dynamic commanding Maestra with plenty of orchestral experience. Immediately she made absolute musical sense of “Agitations”, delivered a haunting rendition of Niels Gade’s strangely appealing “Echoes of Ossian” and gave for me a definitive treatment of the first movement of the Dvorak Seventh. Throughout, she was a confident coherent leader displaying total freedom of expression and phrasing. The orchestra played flawlessly for her and the audience gave her the only bravos we heard all evening”. After her California debut performances in San Jose, the Mercury News spoke of her ability to “usher the audience into the chambers of fantasy, imagery and feeling” and further commenting “This is the way conducting used to be”. In 2002, Ms. Alfonso became the first Cuban American conductor to be invited to conduct and hold a permanent guest conducting position with Cuba’s premier orchestra where she receives standing ovations with standing room only concerts. Other orchestras Ms. Alfonso has appeared as guest conductor with are the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Cuba, the San Jose Symphony, the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, the Prague Radio Symphony, the Orchestra de Rús in Sienna, Italy, the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Missouri Symphony Society, the Women's Philharmonic, and the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra. And on the lighter side she was asked by the Tourist and Development Council for the State of Florida to conduct an Underwater Concert for over 400 divers, which received recognition world wide. Prominent performers with whom she has worked include Robert McDuffie, Sharon Isbin, Elmar Oliveira, Awadagin Pratt, Natasha Paremski and Jeffrey Chappell among others. With her national reputation continuing to expand, Sebrina has been the recipient of feature stories on CBS radio news, CNN, the AP Press, MS Magazine (New York), Deco Drive and Miami News (ABC) and has been reported in Reuters. Ms. Alfonso is an advocate for American composers and it is this commitment that has seen her organize group commissions for various orchestras and has recorded works of James Grant under the MMC label of Boston with the Prague Radio Symphony.  She is also a featured conductor with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra of American Composers. During the summers at the Conductors Institute, Sebrina held fellowships and was invited to perform several world premieres, including her own composition Freedom Crossing, a work which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Mariel Cuban boat-crossing in which thousands risked their lives to gain their freedom. The 2006/07 season will mark Ms. Alfonso’s eighth season as Music Director of the Key West Symphony in Florida, an orchestra that has seen remarkable growth under her formation and leadership since its inaugural concert in December of 1998. Her popularity continues to expand with the orchestra seeing Concerts at 100% sell out and a reputation that has spread across the country Maestra Alfonso has been hired as Music Supervisor/Composer for the movie 90 Miles which will star Andy Garcia and filmed in Miami, Key West and South America. The Key West Symphony will be recording the soundtrack in New York. In her native Florida, Sebrina was voted Citizen of the Year in 1999 and also Island Person of the Year in Key West. In 2005 she received the Mary Spottswood Achievement award for outreach and education in the cultural arts and was named Interesting Floridian by the Florida Magazine. 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