ron nelson composer

Home

Biography

Works

Recordings

Quotes

» Scrapbook

Links

Contact

Click on photo to enlarge.

8 years old

14 years old

 

 

At the Barton organ, age 17

High school mentor, conductor Bruce Houseknecht

3 students off to Eastman, 1950

 

With Martin Mailman, ca. 1951

 

 

With Howard Hanson, 1953

 

Egypt, 1955
 

 

Paris, 1955

 

On the set for The Birthday of the Infanta, 1956

 

Recording session, 1957

Imperial Palace, Tokyo
With Chief Court Musician s. Abe (l) and G. Togasaki, 1965
 

 

Imperial Palace, Tokyo
Bugaku Dance Performance
with Tsuji Toshio, 1965

With Howard Duff (narrator for What is Man?) and Ida Lupino, 1968

 

With conductor / composer Jerome Neff, 1974. Oakland Symphony Orchestra performance of orchestral version of Rocky Point Holiday

Premiere of Fanfare for a Celebration, 1982

 

With Stuart Pope, of Boosey & Hawkes at premiere of Medieval Suite, 1982

Aspen studio, at work on Aspen Jubliee, 1984

 

With conductor Erich Kunzel & wife Brunhilde

With composer Martin Mailman

 

Sudler Award Ceremony, 1994

With conductor Frederick Fennell

 

With conductor Don Wilcox, 1994

 

Rehearsing USAF Band of the West, 1994

 

With conductor Leonard Slatkin, 1994

 

Publicity photo, 1996

 

With conductor Matthew Mailman, 2000

 

Scottsdale, 2001

 

Family wedding, 2003 – on the right, son Marc & family; on the left, daughter Kristen & family

With wife Michele, 2005

 

Premier of Pastorale: Autumn Rune at 2006 Midwest Clinic Ray Cramer, conducting

With Penny the WonderDog, 2006

 

Honorary Doctorate, OCU, 2006

With Jack Stamp composer/conductor Keystone Wind Ensemble, 2009

82nd Birthday, December 2011

“Escorting granddaughter Kaitlyn, July 2017

 

Copyright © 2007-2016 Ron Nelson, Composer - all rights reserved. Website design by n-ergizing.