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Tom Zelle
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Tom Zelle is a German conductor, author, music educator and a student of Sergiu Celibidache. His influences from Celibidache led him to receive music education at famous schools and universities across Germany and the United States. Biography Career Conductor Tom Zelle serves as music professor and director of orchestra studies at the North Park University in Chicago. He is also the music director of the Chicago Sauganash Community Church. At North Park University, he is also the director of the Certificate in Music for Social Changes and Human Values Program, which is the first undergraduate program in the US related to the El Sistema philosophy and pedagogy. Zelle is active as a performer and speaker, being invited to conduct concerts and presentations in several countries. He serves as principal guest conductor and artistic director of the Sangrock Music Festival and East West Music Festival in South Korea. He has been the conductor and artistic/music director for many orchestras and theatres, such as the Phoenix Symphony Guild Youth Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, the Lyric Opera Theatre at Tempe, and the Scottsdale Community College Symphony Orchestra. He has given master classes for orchestral conductors in Venezuela as part of the El Sistema program and serves as artistic advisor for the Yours Orchestra of the People’s Music School. Privately, he maintains a studio where he coaches professional musicians. The love for sciences This exquisite musician and educator is also a closet scientist, taking courses in quantum physics in his spare time. He keeps up the habits that he had as a child, like looking anxiously through a telescope at night. Anyone who believes that science and music make a strange pair might enjoy conversations with Tom Zelle. To him, it is a metaphor, as he usually say that “All styles that used to be separate should become one!” He always seeks for “some sort of Renaissance diversity” in his studies and life. Regarded by many of his students as a "helpful, intellective, confusing, somewhat crazy yet indeed very funny" professor, he teaches not only music, but too philosophy, literature and psychological studies. He passes on to many young musicians the love of nature which is to him, very important. “I remember all things that served me as a student and that helped me in my education and I try to pass them on,” he says. Sergiu Celibidache's influences Zelle owes much of his education process to his teacher, Sergiu Celibidache, claming he would not be who he is today without studied with Celibidache. Much of his visions and thoughts, especially in the field of phenomenology and music, was greatly influenced by his great teacher. Compositions Epistemology in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, 1990 Sergiu Celibidache: Analytical Approaches to His Teachings on Phenomenology and Music, 1996 Education Gymnasium Soltau Church Music/Organ, Musikhochschule Lübeck Phenomenology of Music, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München Musicology, Universität Hamburg Communication, MA, Cultural Anthropology, Temple University Cognitive Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania MM, Music Education, Arizona State University DM, Orchestral Conducting, Arizona State University See Also
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