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Faculty
Clark Potter, Conductor
A native of Longview, Washington, Clark Potter began work as the viola professor at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 1996, where he also teaches conducting and serves as principal viola of the Lincoln Symphony. Mr. Potter is an active performer as a solo recitalist and chamber musician, and he has premiered dozens of pieces for the viola in the last few years, including five pieces by living Nebraska composers performed on one recital. Mr. Potter is the director ofNEBratsche, the viola ensemble at UNL (for whom he is busy arranging music) and, after conducting the Junior Youth Orchestra of Lincoln, he is currently conducting the Lincoln Youth Symphony. He is also a member of the Third Chair Chamber Players and is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician at schools in Nebraska and around the region. He has conducted All-State Junior Orchestras in Oregon, Alabama and Iowa, and he has conducted honors orchestras in Salina and Hutchinson, KS, Reno, NV, and Rapid City, SD in the last two years.
Prior to his appointment at Nebraska, Mr. Potter taught nine years at Eastern Oregon University, where he was associate professor of strings and conductor of the Grande Ronde Symphony. He received his graduate degrees from Indiana University and California Institute of the Arts and his bachelor's degree from Western Washington University. He has studied with Charmian Gadd, Peter Marsh, James Dunham and Mimi Zweig.
During the summers, Mr. Potter is on the faculty of the University of Nebraska's Chamber Music Institute, and since 1997 he has performed in the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra. He has been a guest artist at Rocky Ridge Music Center and an artist/teacher of viola and chamber music at the Young Musicians and Artists summer program in Salem, Oregon, the Puget Sound Chamber Music Workshop, Lutheran Summer Music program and the Csehy Summer School of Music in Philadelphia. He is active in the American String Teachers Association: he served six years on the board of the Nebraska chapter, he was president of the Oregon chapter, and he has written for the organization's national magazine. Mr. Potter has also dabbled in composition. He recently completed three pieces for young orchestras, and he has written music for two contemporary ballets, one full-length "cowboy" musical, several pieces for choir and pieces for smaller instrumental combinations, including a sextet for violas. For NEBratsche, he has arranged numerous pieces of various kinds.
In 2005 he was a featured soloist performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Anton Miller and the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra. In 2001 and 2002, Mr. Potter performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and the Landmark Theatre of Richmond, VA with folk legend Arlo Guthrie as a member of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C. During the summer of 2002 he toured Italy and Austria as principal violist of the Southwest Washington Chamber Orchestra. In addition, he is half way to his goal of performing as a soloist or chamber musician in each of the 50 states.
Clark would rather be at home than anywhere else in the world, however, enjoying time with his children (Shannon, 16, and Samuel, 12) and his wife, Jan. He is a big baseball fan, and his favorite hobby is to run and race on roads and trails year around.
 Terry Rush assistant conductor
Terry R. Rush has been the Director of Instrumental Music at Lincoln High School for twenty years. During this period his groups have grown in size and quality. The Marching Band has grown to over 220 members and has become a consistent winner of Superior Ratings, known for it's progressive style and musical quality. The Marching Band has traveled to Florida to march in the King Orange Jamboree Parade where it was invited to lead the 1994 Walt Disney World?s Magic Kingdom Christmas Pageant Parade. The London Parade New Years Day in London England, the Culigan-Holiday Bowl and Parade in San Diego, Ca. where the Lincoln High School Jazz Band won the Jazz Division and the Marching Band won the Grand Championship in the field competition and the Grand Championship as the Best Overall Music Ensemble which enabled them to perform their show at the bowl game. The only high school in the United States to perform their show at a major college bowl game. The band then traveled to Anaheim, Ca. where they were invited to lead the Disneyland Christmas Pageant Parade. In 2003 the Lincoln HIgh School Marching Band will once again travel to London, England to perform in the prestigious London New Years Day Parade.
Under Mr. Rush's direction Lincoln High Symphonic Band has been nationally recognized being the only band from Nebraska to have been selected and compete in the National Adjudicators Invitational Concert Band Contest where they place third from bands across the nation. They are consistent winners of Superior Ratings at the Lincoln Publics Schools Symphonic Band Contest and at the Worlds of Fun Festival of Bands where the have also won Division and Grand Championship several times. In the spring of 2002 the Symphonic Band traveled to Branson, Missouri to participate in a 14 state competition finishing as runner up in the two day elimination contest. The Symphonic Band has been an honor band at the Nebraska State Bandmasters Association State Convention numerous times.
The Lincoln High Orchestra has received Superior Ratings at Worlds of Fun Festival of Music as well as Music in the Parks contests in Minneapolis and at St. Louis where they where they also were awarded the Grand Championship. The Orchestra perform as a honor group at the Nebraska Music Educators Convention. The Lincoln High Jazz Bands have received consistent Superior Ratings and first place and Grand Championship awards in contests throughout the Midwest having several students being honored with jazz soloist awards.
Prior to teaching at Lincoln High School Mr. Rush taught at Pius X High School for five years. He has been a member of the Lincoln Symphony for 28 seasons and the Lincoln Municipal Band for 31 years serving as principal trombone as well as guest soloist. In 2001 Mr. Rush was appointed Assistant Director of the Lincoln Municipal Band. Mr. Rush serves as a low brass, jazz, marching and concert band clinician, has directed several conference honor bands as well as an adjudicator and guest soloist throughout the Midwest and has adjudicated for the Youth Music of the World International Band, Jazz Band and Orchestra Festival in Maastricht Holland in April of 1999. Mr. Rush was recently appointed by Youth Music of the World as Executive Director of the Nebraska All Star Band for the annual Paris and Chantilly Parades in France and Executive Director of the Nebraska Honor Chamber Orchestra to participate in the annual London New Years Day Parade and Music Festival. Mr. Rush is a past officer on the board of the Nebraska State Bandmasters Association.
Mr. Rush and his wife Jacqueline, also a band director with Lincoln Public Schools, have three children, Ben 23, a Computer Programer, Stacey 21, a Music Major at UNL and Robby 17 who is a tenth grade Tubist at Lincoln High School. Mr. Rush is an avid cyclist, having raced for several years and is a Second Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.
Ed Love woodwind coach
Ed Love has taught instrumental music in Nebraska for 36 years. He currently teaches at Mickle Middle School as well as Holmes elementary school. A long-time professional performer, he plays with the Third Chair Chamber Players, Nebraska Jazz Orchestra and the Nebraska Symphony Chamber Orchestra as well as leading his own jazz quartet. Ed played second clarinet with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra for 25 years, principal clarinet with the Omaha Opera Orchestra for 8 years and bass clarinet with the Omaha Symphony for 10 years. He studied clarinet with Wesley Reist at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and, since then, has studied with George Silfies and Carmelo Galante. He has studied flute with Becky Van de Bogart and saxophone with Dr. Robert Fought. Ed's wife, Loretta, is also a musician, as is their daughter, Elizabeth.
Sam Packard strings coach
Sam Packard is from Hastings, Nebraska. He studied violin with Mischa and the late Dr. James Johnson, followed by Robert Emile. Sam is taking teacher certification coursework at the University of Nebraska. He studied with Young-Nam Kim at the University of Minnesota, and earned a BM in 2001. Sam is a freelance musician who is playing his fourth year with the Lincoln Symphony, other orchestras, and also plays frequently with the Hot Club of Lincoln, a Django Reinhardt-inspired gipsy jazz band. Sam teaches private students classical and alternative music styles.
Lori Falcone percussion coach
Lori Payne Falcone is currently teaching Instrumental and Vocal Music at Scott Middle School. Prior to that, she was the Instrumental Music Director and Department Chair for Lincoln Southwest High School. She was responsible for opening and establishing the music program at LSW. In addition to teaching for LPS, she has also taught at Seneca Ridge Middle School (VA), Luray High School (VA), Prairie Grove Schools (AR), Palmyra High School (NE), and a graduate teaching assistant position at UNL. Over the past 17 years, she has had the opportunity to teach band, marching percussion, marching band, color guard, jazz, orchestra, music technology, choir, swing choir and general music from elementary to high school levels. She is active as a percussionist and has played with the Lincoln Municipal Band, the Plymouth Brass and the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra.
Mrs. Falcone is a native of Vandalia, IL and received her BME from Truman State University in Kirksville, MO. She received her Master of Music in Conducting from the University of Nebraska √ Lincoln. Lori lives in Lincoln with her husband Tony and their one year-old daughter, Elizabeth.
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