Host/Writer Biography
Dr. Matthew Mailman
Dr. Matthew
Mailman is Professor of Conducting in the Wanda L. Bass School
of Music at Oklahoma City University, a position he has held since
1995. He serves as Music Director for the Oklahoma Opera and Music
Theater Company and Conductor of OCU's award-winning Wind
Philharmonic. In the twelve years since his appointment, he has
conducted twenty-two operas and musicals and has led the Wind
Philharmonic in seven world premieres, on five tours, at two OK
Mozart Festivals, and at six convention performances. He teaches
graduate and undergraduate conducting and coordinates OCU's Masters
in Conducting program. Recent opera performances at Oklahoma City
University include Die Zauberflöte , La Bohème , and
Andre Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire . He conducted
Carlisle Floyd's opera Susannah at Opera in the Ozarks in the
summer of 2007.
Dr. Mailman has been a conductor with the Guy Fraser Harrison
Academy since 1997, and is the conductor of the Harrison Academy
Symphonic Winds. His work has been published in The
Instrumentalist and Teaching Music , and he is a research
associate and writer for the series Teaching Music Through
Performance in Band (every band volume in the series). Southern
Music publishes his arrangement of Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2,
K. 314 for Harmonie. He has produced and hosted "No
Strings Attached" since April 2004.
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