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SNMAS Story -
Biography
Biographies of Conductors, Guest
Conductors and Performers
Dr. Douglas R. Peterson, serving his thirty-eighth season as the Musical Arts
Society’s Music Director, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral
Performance and Vocal Pedagogy and a Masters degree in Music from the
University of Iowa. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Florida State
University and Bachelor of Arts
degree from Grinnell College, Grinnell,
Iowa. His choral groups have
performed at both regional and national conventions of the American Choral
Directors Association. In 1977, he conducted the American premiere of David
Fanshawe’s African Sanctus. Dr. Peterson received the Award for
Excellence in the Arts from Governor Richard Bryan in 1987, and in 1992, he
was recognized by Governor Bob Miller and Senators Richard Bryan and Harry
Reid for his significant contribution to the Arts in Nevada. In 1998, Dr. Peterson received the
Community Achievement Award in Arts and Entertainment from the Las Vegas
Chamber of Commerce. He serves on the faculty of the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Corbett
Brattin is an
award-winning broadcast journalist. With a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State
University, he has worked as a news
and sports anchor in Chicago and Los Angeles. Currently,
he is a sports anchor on the Sports Fan Radio Network, with broadcasts
transmitted to more than 350 stations in all 50 states. Brattin’s first love
is acting: he has performed professionally in Florida with the Florida Repertory Theater
and the Royal Palm Dinner Theater. Last fall, he portrayed the role of Mr.
Biggley at the Nicholas Horn Theater in a production of How to Succeed in
Business without Really Trying, and in December he was Ebeneezer Scrooge
in A Christmas Carol at the former Debbie Reynolds Hotel and Casino.
Brattin has also worked as a ballroom dance instructor, and when time allows,
he sings with the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society.
Carlos
Donaho, a
professional vocalist and musician, is the founder and leader of the group
now called “Patriot Band,” which was formed in 1963 in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The band, in which he plays banjo and guitar, performed in and around Houston and Atlanta for
many years before relocating to Las
Vegas in 1986. The ensemble offers a variety of
“standard” fare including Dixieland, ballads, show tunes, and even a little
bit of Elvis Presley. Donaho was a voice major at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, where he appeared in stage productions
of Oklahoma
and Brigadoon. He has performed at the Dunes, Desert Inn, Sands, Four
Queens and other locations in Las Vegas, as well as the Edgewater, Harrah’s,
Colorado Belle and River Palms in Laughlin, and the Ameristar Projects in
Jackpot, Nevada, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Donaho has been singing with the
Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society since 1989.
Rabbi Gary
M. Golbart has
enjoyed a 22-year association with the Musical Arts Society, as a soloist,
board member, producer and director. He was ordained at the New Seminary in New York City and
currently serves as the spiritual leader of Adat Ari El, a Reform
Congregation embracing traditional Judaism. He completed a Bachelor of Music
degree in Vocal Performance from University
of Nevada, Las Vegas, having first studied music at
Southern Illinois University and the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, where
he studied on a vocal scholarship with Metropolitan Opera star Robert
McFarrin. Rabbi Golbart is the music director for the Jewish Community Day
School and the National Conference, Southern Nevada Region. He is the former
director of the “LIDO” show at the Stardust
Hotel and Casino, and has appeared in the Follies Bergere and MGM’s Jubilee.
Kate Harris is a graduate of Michigan State
University, where she
studied with nationally known vocal professor, Claritha Buggs. In Michigan, Harris
appeared frequently in musical theater and opera. She performed in Carmen,
The Merry Widow, Tales of Hoffman, Three Penny Opera, Annie,
and Sweet Charity. She had the honor of sharing a stage with Frederica
Von Stade and Robert Merrill. A recent transplant to Las Vegas, Harris is an elementary general
music teacher with the Clark County School System.
Sidra Kain has appeared frequently as a guest
soloist in the Musical Arts Society’s pops concerts since 1982 and is a
regularly featured artist in the Nevada Symphony Orchestra’s Picnic Pops
series. She studied opera at the University
of Arizona and acting at the Lee
Strasburg Theater Institute West in Los
Angeles, where she is was a member of the Inner
Circle Actors Theater. Kain has toured wordwide, appearing throughout the United States, Europe
and the Orient. She is President of Sidra Kain Advertising and Public
Relations.
Robert
Peterson is a
charter member of the Musical Arts Society Singers, which was formed in 1981.
He has performed often as a soloist with the Singers, and is currently
studying for a music degree at University
of Nevada, Las Vegas.
John A. Smith has been a choral conductor and singer
for nearly 40 years. Groups under his direction have performed at the White
House, the Kennedy
Center, the Hollywood
Palladium, on national television, and with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Smith, who has extensive experience as a choral singer and soloist, can be
heard on recordings on the Angel and Musical Heritage labels. While serving
as Assistant Dean of the University of Michigan School of Music, he founded
that institution’s vocal jazz and show choirs. He is a recipient of the
Nevada Governor’s Arts Award for Service to the Arts. Smith is the Director
of Music at Mountain View Presbyterian Church.
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