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Maureen May (née Getting; born September 22, 1962) is an American cellist and conductor. She resides in the Orlando, Florida area and is a noted cellist in the region and co-founder and artistic director of the Metropolitan Area Youth Symphony. ==Life and career== Maureen May was born in Sanborn, Iowa to Daryle and Marian Getting, the youngest of six children. As a young student, Maureen studied cello with Mary Eleanor May, whose son Jonathan May was also a cellist in a musical household. Though often in direct competition, Maureen and Jonathan would become inseparable and were married in 1983. The Mays moved to Colorado, where Maureen graduated with a degree in Cello Performance from Colorado State University. In Colorado, the Mays founded the Canyon Youth Orchestra and adopted a lifelong philosophy of community involvement through music. After the birth of their first two children, Emily (b. 1987) and Elliot (b. 1988), the Mays moved to Tennessee, where Maureen started the Cumberland String Project—the program introduced strings and music education to an area that otherwise had no music education in the schools or community. The Mays moved to Central Florida in the early 1990s, where Maureen continued to teach strings, help Jonathan expand his burgeoning youth orchestras, and add to their family with the births of Allison (b. 1990) and Nathan (b. 1994). An accomplished cellist, Maureen quickly joined the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bach Festival Orchestra.〔 She was the orchestra director at Maitland Middle School and Winter Park High School, and also started the strings program at Park Maitland School. Despite a terrible car accident that threatened her career as a cellist and music teacher, she would also teach music at Millennium Middle School in Sanford, Florida and build a comprehensive strings program with Jonathan at Trinity Preparatory School, where she has worked for the last 10 years. She also performs with her own chamber group the Dolce Chamber Players and is a frequent performer at area events, including Walt Disney World's Candlelight Processional. She has also performed in accompanying orchestras with many notable pop musicians such as Jimmy Page, Harry Connick Jr., Donny Osmond, Smokey Robinson, as well as famous tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli. In 2010, Jonathan May died. Maureen continued to teach and play professionally, and assumed a leadership role in some of the programs that she helped create with Jonathan, including the strings program at Trinity Prep. She has also been instrumental in paying tribute to her husband, and has participated in several tributes performed by Central Florida orchestras. The first number of the OPO’s November, 2010 “Myth and Poetry” program was dedicated to Jonathan May; Maureen played cello during the program. Upon completion of ''The Phoenix Rising'', a Stella Sung piece commissioned years earlier by Jonathan, Orlando Phil maestro Christopher Wilkins walked into the orchestra and gave Maureen a warm embrace. Maureen May is now in her second term as a Musician Board Member of the Orlando Philharmonic Board of Directors and serves as Chair of the Musician Board on the Philharmonic’s Executive Board. She also has maintained a private studio for over twenty-five years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maureen May」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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