He has been awarded the National Band Association’s Citation of Excellence numerous times and has been recognized with several achievement awards for education, including Florida’s 2019 FMEA Secondary Music Educator of the Year Award, FBA Oliver Hobbs Award, FBA Andrew J.
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Kaminsky has presented his clinic “How Can I Get My Band to Sound Like That” at various conferences and workshops, and his hands-on rehearsal demonstrations for the annual “How To Fix It” series at the FMEA Professional Development Conference received high acclaim with over 900 attendees in 2019.
His marching bands consistently placed in the Florida Marching Band State Championship Finals, twice winning consecutive FMBC State Championships (20, 20) as well as being named a finalist band at BOA regional competitions. In 2018, the Stoneman Douglas Wind Symphony was named a Mark of Excellence National Wind Band Honors winner as one of only ten 6A bands in the nation. Kaminsky’s high school bands performed at the Midwest Clinic (2005, 2009, 2014, and 2018), ABA National Convention (2014), CBDNA/NBA Southern Division Conference (20), FMEA State Conference (2014), Music for All National Concert Band Festival (20), and the National Wind Band Festival at Carnegie Hall (20). In addition to earning straight Superior ratings at the Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA) State Concert Band Assessment beginning in 1997 for an unprecedented 21 years (the last 11 years with both his first and second bands), he is the only director in the history of the FBA to have had three concert bands from one school earn straight Superior ratings at State, which he achieved three times (2009, 2018, and 2019). Throughout his 30-year career as a high school band director, Kaminsky’s ensembles have consistently earned Superior ratings at all levels of evaluation. He holds degrees from the University of Florida and Indiana University, is active as an adjudicator, and is in demand as a guest conductor/clinician across the country. Previous to that, Kaminsky led the band programs at Buchholz High School, Lincoln High School, Auburndale High School, and Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High School, all of which excelled under his direction. Davila-Cortes is finishing up her doctorate in Music and Human Learning at the University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis in Parental Involvement.Īlexander Kaminsky was appointed Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at VanderCook College of Music in 2019 after a highly successful tenure at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. Yvonne is also the conductor of the Austin Youth Concertante Orchestra. She is a faculty member of the University of Texas String Project and has served as a Suzuki violin teacher, Preschool Coordinator, and Assistant Director from 2009-2011. Davila-Cortes moved to the Austin area to attend UT-Austin. She has presented at the Suzuki of the Americas Association and American String Teacher of America Conferences. Davila-Cortes has served as an Adjunct Instructor at Ripon College, conducted an elementary string orchestra in McFarland, Wisconsin and established Suzuki violin studios in both Madison and Spring Green. While in WI, she was a member of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra and a substitute with The Madison Symphony Orchestra. Davila-Cortes has appeared as a soloist at the AIMS Music Festival in Solsona, Spain and at the Rural Musicians Forum in Spring Green, WI. in Violin Performance at UW-Madison under Vartan Manoogian. During that time, she had the opportunity to substitute for the Chicago Civic Orchestra. in Music Business and Violin Performance under Joseph Genualdi. She attended DePaul University and received her B.M. Director of String Yvonne Davila-Cortes is originally from Chicago and began Suzuki violin at the age of five.
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