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The guest conductor of the

2008 SCRMC String Orchestra

is Dr. Douglas Bakenhus

 

 
   
         

Dr. Douglas Bakenhus is the music director and conductor of the Natchitoches-Northwestern State University Symphony as well as the Northeast Texas Symphony.  In addition, Dr. Bakenhus teaches bassoon, music theory, and conducting at Northwestern. He has music degrees are from the University of Texas at Austin (DMA 2006, B.Music Ed.1983), Texas A&M University-Commerce (M.M. conducting 1985) and has completed additional graduate courses in conducting at the University of Michigan.   Dr. Bakenhus has taught at the college level as a band director and professor of bassoon at the University of Mississippi and at Texas Lutheran University.  He recently served as music director and conductor of the Austin Philharmonic and was a public school orchestra director at Crockett High School in Austin and at Langham Creek High School in Houston.  Throughout his teaching career, Dr. Bakenhus has remained active as a guest conductor, clinician, and bassoonist.  He recently toured Canada, Slovakia, and the Czech Repulic with the NSU Faculty Woodwind Trio. Other recent ensemble performances include; the Shreveport Symphony, the Longview Symphony, the Austin Symphony, and the San Antonio Symphony. Dr. Bakenhus is frequently called upon to adjudicate orchestra festivals, band festivals and solo/ensemble festivals throughout the United States.

 

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