Scott J. Dunn
Scott Dunn has been the Director of bands at Baldwin High School since 2007. Overseeing a comprehensive program, Mr. Dunn conducts the Concert Band, Symphony Band, Wind Symphony, and Jazz Ensemble . During his tenure at Baldwin, he has received consistent Gold with Distinction ratings at the NYSSMA major organization festival, performed twice with the Wind Symphony at Carnegie Hall, and performed four times with the LIU Post Invitation Band Festival. In recent demand as a guest conductor and clinician, Mr. Dunn has conducted the Suffolk County’s Division I and II Bands, the Hampton’s High School and Middle School Music Festivals, the North Fork Honor Band, Orange and Duchess All County Festivals, the Eastern US Music Camp at Colgate University, and has presented a seminar at the NYSSMA Conference in Rochester. Deeply dedicated to commissioning new works for advancing the artistic medium of the modern wind ensemble, the Baldwin Wind Symphony has commissioned and premieredfive new works for winds during his tenure, by composers Adam Schoenberg, Anthony Barfield, William C. White, David Heckendorn and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec.
For the 2012-2013 season, Mr. Dunn was appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Long Island Youth Orchestra, becoming only the second music director in the distinguished 50 year history of that orchestra. He has led LIYO on three of their recent international tours- in 2007 to Greece, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia and Turkey, in 2008 to Eastern Russia, Japan, Korea and Hawaii, and in 2013 to Ireland, Scotland, France and Iceland.
Mr. Dunn earned his BM in Music Education from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and his MM in Trombone and Wind Conducting from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. During the summers of 2010 and 2011, Scott was selected to be a conducting fellow at the prestigious Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians in Hancock, Maine, where he studied under the tutelage of Maestro Michael Jinbo. He lives in Kew Gardens with his wife, flutist and educator Patricia Blackman Dunn and their son Lukas.
Kimberly Roof
Kimberly Roof received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Toledo and her Master of Music in Conducting from Ohio University. After teaching elementary through high school band and marching band for two years in Jackson, Ohio she moved to New York in 2006 to be the Director of Bands at Baldwin High School. Her daily responsibilities include conducting the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Concert Band, and Pep Band. She also conducts the pit orchestras for the annual Baldwin productions of Footloose, The Producers, Jekyll and Hyde, Fame, Into the Woods, Once Upon a Mattress, The Wiz, Hello, Dolly!and Anything Goes. Under her direction the Concert Band (III), Symphony Band (IV –V) and Wind Symphony (VI) have received Gold and Gold with Distinction ratings from the NYSSMA Adjudication Festivals each year.
Kimberly has been selected and participated in conducting seminars at the Juilliard School of Music with Virginia Allen, The Hartt School of Music Conducting Clinics with Glen Adsit, Michael Haithcock, Edward Cummings, Frank Ticheli and Michael Colgrass and most recently with Mallory Thompson at the Wind Conducting Symposium in New Jersey. Committed to advancing the wind band medium, Kimberly is actively involved in commissioning projects with Metropolitan Music Community, NYSBDA, and Baldwin High School. Since working in Baldwin she has been a part of commissioning 7 new pieces for the wind band from new and established composers: Michael Colgrass, Adam Schoenberg, Paul Moravec, Anthony Barfield, David Heckenorn, Joel Puckett and new for 2016 Ken Lampl. In 2014, she presented Plan in a Can: Common Core Assessments for Music at the NYSSMA All State Winter Conference.
As a clarinetist, Kimberly performs regularly with the Brooklyn Wind Symphony, which is under the auspice of the Metropolitan Music Community (MMC) where she serves as the Assistant Conductor and as the Board Member at Large. This band was selected to perform the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in 2013 and in 2015 they were selected to perform at the WASBE Conference in San Jose, CA. In addition to her musical endeavors, Kimberly is a lover of delicious food and drink and participates competitively in triathlons, road races and typically runs 30 miles a week throughout Queens and NYC with HbodylabTri and Hellgate Road Runners.