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Maestro Winkler brings over 30
years of international performing experience to his
conducting. He has extensive
experience with both instrumental and choral groups, and has
conducted in fourteen countries in South and Central America.
In Europe, he has conducted in Germany, France, and the Czech
Republic,
recording in 2000 with the Moravian Philharmonic. He has been the Music Director of the
Athenaeum Pops Orchestra in Indianapolis, the Westminster Symphony in
Denver, and has conducted
professionally in five other
states.
Since relocating to Utah in 2001,
Maestro Winkler has appeared as a guest on the podium
for the American Fork Symphony, the Orchestra of Southern Utah in
Cedar
City, and the
Salt Lake Symphonic Winds. He has a
Master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Utah, where he conducted the University of
Utah Chamber
Orchestra, and guest-conducted other
university ensembles, including the University Symphony and the
Philharmonia. He is currently the
Music Director of both the Riverton Metropolitan Orchestra and the
newly formed Nebo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Maestro Winkler is also an award-winning composer and
arranger. His compositions have been featured works at recent Composers Guild New Music
concerts in Salt Lake
City.
Maestro Winkler studied orchestral conducting with
Stan DeRusha, Jorge Mester, and Robert Baldwin, and choral composition
with James Mulholland. Advanced studies in
Bulgaria include the
International Conducting Workshops, working with Carl St. Clair,
Rossen Milanov, and Gustav Meier. He has
been a member of the Composers Guild since 2000, and the Conductors
Guild since 1994.
Maestro Winkler and his wife Beth met while living in Indianapolis. They now reside in Provo, where they share nine children and a rapidly growing collection of grandchildren.
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