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We are very fortunate to have two very talented musicians involved. Both are great-great-great-grandsons of John Toone.
KAYSON BROWN
Kayson Brown serves as Director of Education at The Music School where he oversees the progress of over 1300 young musicians pursuing excellence in nearly every genre of music. The Music School is an after-school conservatory offering private instruction, music theory, ear-training, orchestra, big band, choir, folk and rock ensembles as well as summer programs and touring groups. The Music School was recently honored with its third Best in State Award and is partnered with the Utah Symphony and the Juilliard School in New York City.
Kayson completed a Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting and is Music Director of The Music School's Lyceum Repertory Orchestra. Additionally, he has conducted orchestras throughout Utah and beyond including all five BYU Orchestras, The University of Utah's Philharmonia, Symphony and New Music Ensemble, Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Savior of the World the musical, The Pearl Awards Orchestra, Honor's Orchestras in Salt Lake and Logan as well as The Celebration Chamber Orchestra. Kayson additionally serves as Music Director of the Pleasant Grove Civic Symphony. His conducting mentors include David Cho, Scott O'Neil, Kory Katseanes, Robert Baldwin, David Effron, and Carl Topilow.
Kayson earned his Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance and has worked with some of the country's premier cellists including Marc Johnson of the Vermeer Quartet and Carter Brey, principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic. Kayson is a member of the BYU cello faculty and teaches some of the state's premier young cellists. He remains in demand as a conductor, teacher, and performer and will be featured July 19th 2008 in the Temple Square Concert Series performing on his great-great-great grandfather's pioneer cello. Kayson resides in Salt Lake City with his wife Daniele and two children Logan and Cadence.
Kayson completed a Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting and is Music Director of The Music School's Lyceum Repertory Orchestra. Additionally, he has conducted orchestras throughout Utah and beyond including all five BYU Orchestras, The University of Utah's Philharmonia, Symphony and New Music Ensemble, Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Savior of the World the musical, The Pearl Awards Orchestra, Honor's Orchestras in Salt Lake and Logan as well as The Celebration Chamber Orchestra. Kayson additionally serves as Music Director of the Pleasant Grove Civic Symphony. His conducting mentors include David Cho, Scott O'Neil, Kory Katseanes, Robert Baldwin, David Effron, and Carl Topilow.
Kayson earned his Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance and has worked with some of the country's premier cellists including Marc Johnson of the Vermeer Quartet and Carter Brey, principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic. Kayson is a member of the BYU cello faculty and teaches some of the state's premier young cellists. He remains in demand as a conductor, teacher, and performer and will be featured July 19th 2008 in the Temple Square Concert Series performing on his great-great-great grandfather's pioneer cello. Kayson resides in Salt Lake City with his wife Daniele and two children Logan and Cadence.
DICKSON, DOUGLAS
The pianist Douglas Dickson received his B.A. degree from Princeton University and his M.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. He has performed in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, in venues ranging from Japan’s Expo Hall to the Cincinnati Coliseum. While still in college he was the accompanist for the American Boychoir. As part of Duodecaphonia, a prize-winning piano duo, he has performed at the Kennedy Center and elsewhere.
Douglas Dickson has been music director for productions at Quinnipiac University, the Yale School of Drama, Opera Theater of Connecticut, and Connecticut Experimental Theater. He was music director and conductor for Yale Opera’s production of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, and he conducted a concert featuring Yale Opera with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano. He has served for fourteen years on the faculty of Quinnipiac University, and joined the Yale faculty in 1998. He recently made his Carnegie début in an all Ives concert at Weill Recital Hall.
