2011 - 2012 Concerts

2011 Super Conductor Contest

What is the Super conductor contest? It is an annual contest that the community votes on three contestant to raise funding for the Longmont Symphony Orchestra. Each of the three contestants campains for your vote to elect them as the Super Conductor. You vote by donaiting money as votes for your favorite candidate. The contestant with the most votes wins and conducts a musical selection at the seasons first concert. This year's candidates are: Dale Sherrod, Craig Hovick and Jeff Lees. Each of the candidates has volunteered to help raise funds to enhance the community support for the Longmont Symphony Orchestra. They will hand out ballots, with spirited campaign speeches, at every opportunity. You may also make donations at the Symphony office at 519 Main St. (just north of the Theatre Company in the walk-through between Main and Coffman streets).

Contributions may be sent to:
Longmont Symphony Orchestra PO Box 74 Longmont, CO 80502

Please indicate candidate of choice in memo field.

Dale Sherrod

Dale is a long time Longmont resident and supporter of the Longmont Symphony Orchestra.  He has three grown children and six grandchildren.  His interests include hiking, mission work in the USA and in other countries, reading, attending musical and other stage performances, and amateur piano playing. He does creative writing and is a lay working in his church.  Dale is excited to be one of this year’s Super Conductor candidates.

 

Craig Hovick

For the last 24 years, Craig Hovick has practiced Periodontics and Implant Dentistry in Longmont.  He completed his Bachelor and Doctor of Dental Surgery degrees at the University of Iowa.  Following a yearlong hospital internship in New Orleans, he practiced general dentistry in St. Louis for five years.  After completing a two-year periodontics residency at the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry, Craig opened a private practice in Longmont in 1987.

Craig and his wife have two adult daughters and a 10 year old son.  Out of the office, he likes to bike and mountain climb.  He has summited 41 of Colorado’s 54 ‘fourteeners.’  Each year, for the past seven years, Craig has volunteered to travel abroad to third world countries to participate in medical/dental missions.  He has traveled on missions to Cambodia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.  Last fall, Rotary Club awarded him the Jim Kanemoto International Peace and Compassion Award.

Craig is honored to be selected as one of this year’s candidates for Super Conductor.

Jeffery Lees

Growing up our family always was surrounded by music. I remember my dad had this really cool tube amplifier and turntable. I wasn’t allowed to touch it! Boy I wish I still had it today. Anyway, he also had stacks and stacks of vinyl albums covering everything from Simon and Garfunkel to the Boston Pops. He would awake Sunday mornings early and wake the rest of us up with music, a different variety each Sunday. I’ll never forget it.

Working with my father, during the day we would fight over the radio, he wanting NPR and me KBCO. Every once in a while we would catch each other enjoying “their” station.

Last month, I had the pleasure of being introduced as a Super Conductor candidate at the LSO May concert. I was amazed just how good the LSO was and reminded of the music my father used to play for the family. The LSO is a Longmont treasure and I am honored to help support it!