Jonathan Glawe

Director of Orchestras

Jonathan Glawe is a music educator who now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is a college graduate with a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Kansas, and a former strings director in the Darien Public School District in Darien, Connecticut. Mr. Glawe holds a Masters Degree from the University of Oregon, in which his area of focus was instrumental conducting and jazz string curricula. While in Oregon, he conducted the UO Campus Orchestra, the Concerto Orchestra, and assisted with the University Symphony as needed. He also taught a jazz string class to high school and college students. While teaching in Connecticut, Mr. Glawe was heavily involved in string education as a board member of Connecticut ASTA, and presented at the CMEA conference in the spring of 2006 on the topic of double bass bows. Mr. Glawe was also involved with additional conducting opportunities in the Northeast, including rehearsing the American Chamber Orchestra and the Fairfield County Symphony Society when needed. In addition to his classical training, Mr. Glawe has conducted clinics in the Midwest as well as in the Pacific Northwest on the topic of jazz in the strings classroom, and how to work with string players as a choral director. Jonathan has also served as the faculty/ resident double bassist and beginning string and choral ensemble director at Encore/Coda String Summer Camp in Sweden, Maine. Mr. Glawe currently directs the Intermediate and Advanced Middle School Orchestras at Forsythe Middle School in Ann Arbor every summer, in addition to taking his high school students to Interlochen every August for a week long preparation camp for the following concert season.

Entering his 3rd year at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Mr. Glawe has played an important role in Pioneers return to the Grammy Signature School list, in which the Pioneer Music Department was honored as one of the top 3 music programs in the nation in 2010. In his short time at Pioneer, Mr. Glawe has maintained extremely strong performance ensembles while further enhancing the orchestra curriculum by injecting his vast knowledge of Alternative Styles string playing into the classroom. Mr. Glawe has done this while maintaining and further developing the high quality of classical musicianship that Pioneer is known for, a notable accomplishment.

As a double bassist, Mr. Glawe has performed with many orchestras throughout the Midwest, Northeast, and Northwest. Some of these include the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, the Kansas City Philharmonia Orchestra, the Topeka Symphony Orchestra, the American Chamber Orchestra, and the St. Thomas Orchestra. Mr. Glawe subbed in the Eugene and Corvallis Symphony Orchestras while living in Eugene. He currently plays with the Ann Arbor Repertoire Orchestra during his rare free time in Ann Arbor.

In his spare time, Mr. Glawe enjoys making studio recordings and has played in and led Latin American music ensembles (2taTango), jazz string combos (Jazz Strings Project of Eugene), as well as contemporary chamber groups. Mr. Glawe was the original cellist of the much celebrated AnyWhen Ensemble, centered in Eugene, Oregon, but left group when he moved to Michigan. He enjoys reading research, painting, cooking, score study, and is a huge sports fan, though sadly he has not experienced much success with that part of his life as a Chicago Cubs fan.

You may view more about Mr. Glawe at his website. http://www.jonathanglawe.org

Nancy Waring (Associate Director of Symphony Orchestra)

Ms. Waring is included in the ninth edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, a listing of the best teachers in America selected by their students.

Ms. Waring’s teachers include Roy Ernst, Larry Teal, Joseph Mariano, Keith Bryan, and Elizabeth A. H. Green. She is a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education (1971) and a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance (1972). She has performed as principal flutist and soloist with several orchestras in southeast Michigan. Before her appointment at Pioneer High School she was substitute flutist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. At present she is the flutist with the Intrada Woodwind Quintet and freelances with area orchestras when time permits.

Ms. Waring has taught flute on the faculties of the University of Toledo and the Interlochen Arts Academy. She has maintained a private flute studio in the Ann Arbor area for over thirty years. Ms. Waring also wrote the proposal for, developed the course structure and content for, and teaches the Music Theory and Technology course at Pioneer High School.