Dr. Timothy Holley
Co-Conductor,
Triangle Youth Orchestra

Cellist Timothy Holley is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College and the University of Michigan where he studied with Regina Mushabac, Jerome Jelinek, Jeffrey Solow and Erling Blondal Bengtsson. He has performed in a wide variety of musical styles, genres, and venues around the United States and abroad. A native of Detroit, Michigan he was affiliated with the Toledo (OH) Symphony Orchestra for twelve years, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for three years, and has performed at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Charleston, South Carolina and Spoleto, Italy. He was the cellist of the Legacy String Quartet for six years, which explored and presented little-known works of chamber music by African-American composers. His doctoral dissertation focused on the violoncello music of African-American composers including works of George Walker, David Baker, Hale Smith and numerous others. He has recently recorded works of Valerie Capers, Barbara Cooke, and Hale Smith for the VIDEMUS, Heritage Foundation, and CRI labels; he has also recorded William Banfield's Spirit Songs with tenor Lee Melvin on the INNOVA label. He is presently an Assistant Professor of Music at North Carolina Central University and also a member of the faculty of the Duke University String School, but maintains an active performing schedule as a guest musician with the Ciompi Quartet, the Mallerme Chamber Players, and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra

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Helen Bishop Co-Conductor,
Triangle Youth Orchestra

Helen Bishop is a native of Apex, North Carolina, where she began studying piano and flute both privately and in the public schools. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Master of Music degree in flute performance from the University of Texas at Austin. After graduate school, Mrs. Bishop moved to Philadelphia, where she was a member of the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, and coached chamber music at the University of the Arts. A National Board Certified Teacher, Mrs. Bishop has been the band director at Ligon GT Magnet Middle School since 1997. Ligon s Concert Band performs in festivals locally and nationally, as does the Jazz Band, which also performs annually for Wake Ed Partnership s Pieces of Gold, and Artsplosure s Jazz Lunch. She has led the instrumental music programs at the Montreat Conference for Worship and Music, and for Music Week at Caswell, N.C. Mrs. Bishop is the organist and accompanist at Greenwood Forest Baptist Church in Cary, as well as the accompanist for the Baptist Fellowship Choir, which performed in 2005 for the Baptist World Alliance Centenary World Congress in Birmingham, England. She is delighted to be able to return to the orchestra program in which she participated as a youth.

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