OCP
OCP home
Upcoming Concerts
Concerts at a Glance
Artist
biographies
OCP Personnel
Gallery
OCP Quartet
Support
OCP
Apprenticeship Program
OCP Contact Info
Board of Directors
Junior
Symphony of
Vancouver
JSV Home
Con
Grazia Wind Quintet
Con Grazia Home
Double Reed
Divas
Double Reed Divas Home
|

Timoteus Racz, B.M., M.M., received his formal
training from internationally renowned musicians such as the
Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, Victor Aitay, and intensive
orchestral training from Conductor Zoltan Rozsnyai, founder of the
Philharmonica Hungarica (Germany). Mr. Racz has performed
internationally as a soloist, recitalist and concertmaster and is in
demand as a teacher in the Northwest. He is the Artistic Director
and Concertmaster of the conductorless ensemble, the OREGON CHAMBER
PLAYERS. He is also the Artistic Director and Conductor of the
Junior Symphony of Vancouver. He is an active
composer and has composed violin etudes, solos and a concerto,
string orchestra pieces and other assorted works for chamber
ensembles including commissions for the Double Reed Divas. Some of
his music is published by JB Linear and can be purchased here:
http://www.jb-linear-music.com/
His own violin shop, Racz European
Violins, was opened in August 2001 in Vancouver, WA.

David Ogden Stiers
Although best known as an actor, David Ogden
Stiers has had an active secondary career as a
conductor. He has guest conducted over 70 American
orchestras in such cities as San Francisco, Los Angeles,
San Diego, Honolulu, and Chicago, and is the Associate
Conductor of the Newport Symphony Orchestra and the
Ernest Bloch Music Festival in Oregon.
An accomplished actor of stage, film, and television,
Stiers' career has spanned over 30 years. He was born in
Peoria, Illinois, and he began his acting career in
Northern California. He then moved to New York City,
where he studied drama at Juilliard and joined the
Houseman Acting Company at its outset. He has also
worked with the Old Globe Theatre, San Francisco's The
Actor's Workshop, The California Shakespeare Festival,
and The Committee Revue and Theatre. Aside from numerous
regional theatre productions, Stiers has appeared in
productions including Ulysses in Night Town,
The Magic Show, and currently playing the General in
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas on Broadway.
A three-time Emmy-award nominated actor, Stiers has
appeared in a multitude of both television films and
series. He is most widely known for his role as "Major
Charles Emerson Winchester III" on M*A*S*H, for which he
garnered two Emmy nominations. He has appeared on
numerous series including Ally McBeal, The
Practice, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,
Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Wings, and
Star Trek: The Next Generation. He has also been
seen in a number of television films, including the epic
mini-series North & South, HBO's The Final
Days, USA's Final Notice and The
Pedestrian, The Bad Seed, and The First
Olympics: Athens 1896, for which he was nominated
for an Emmy.
On the big screen, Stiers' list of credits includes
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The Cheap
Detective, Oh, God, Magic, Doc
Hollywood, Everyone Says I Love You,
Mighty Aphrodite, Harry's War, Creator,
Better Off Dead, The Accidental Tourist,
and The Majestic.
Stiers has also lent his voice to several animated
films, including Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast,
Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Hunchback of
Notre Dame, Pocahontas, and Lilo and
Stitch.
Back to OCP Home
|