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BROOKE CRESWELL
The founding music director of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Brooke Creswell, retired in 2010 after a forty-two year career that saw the orchestra evolve from a community chamber orchestra of twelve players into a professional ensemble of sixty-five. Under Mr. Creswell's leadership the YSO also founded and supports a symphony chorus and youth symphony orchestra. During his tenure the orchestra received two ASCAP awards for adventuresome program of contemporary music.

Mr. Creswell's principal teachers are Donald Thulean, and Richard T. Gore. He studied also with Robert Cole, Walter Ducloux, Richard Johannes Lert and Lawrence Leighton Smith. He has guest conducted in Spain, Mexico, and the United States. For the American Symphony Orchestra League (League of American Orchestras) he has been a national conference presenter on the subject of the transition from community to professional orchestras and written for the magazine Symphony.

Mr. Creswell is Faculty Emeritus at Yakima Valley Community College where he taught and held the post of Dean for Arts and Sciences. He has also been active in community arts organizations and served for fifteen years as board chair of the Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing.

DONALD THULEAN
Former Vice President, American Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Emeritus, Spokane Symphony Orchestra

Donald Thulean retired from the American Symphony Orchestra League (now League of American Orchestras) where he was vice president of Professional and Artistic Services. During his tenure with the league he led the development of the league's American conductor training program which was subsequently named in his honor. From 1962 to 1984, he was music director and conductor of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra and currently holds the title of conductor emeritus. From 1966 to 1970 he served as associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the School of Music at the University of Washington.