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Doug BaumanDoug is basically a country boy at heart, born and raised in the country. He works as a software engineer and developer, but when he's not on the computer he tends to drift back towards the environment he likes best: the great outdoors. He sits on the board of a local land preservation organization, and does what he can to keep the land natural, wild and pristine. One of his pet peeves: air pollution; he believes we need to stop burning so much coal and make use of alternate clean energies. Doug is an avid bicyclist. He's been riding all his life, almost every day, and brings his camera along for the ride. In the summer he is also a birder, recording the calls, songs and sightings of birds for the Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas project as a volunteer. "I'd like to think I am an artist, but only with the camera. Sort of like those actors: "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV", well I'm not an artist, but I play one on Flickr..." Visit Doug's gallery on Flickr. In addition to everything else, Doug also likes to write. You can visit his personal blog at http://javadoug.blogspot.com/. |
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Cynthia CloskeyMy Brilliant Mistakes is the personal blog of Cynthia Closkey. Cynthia is president of Big Big Design, where she develops marketing strategies and designs websites for small businesses and nonprofit entities. She is also a founder of Fat Plum, which helps writers reach their writing and publishing goals. She has worked at high-tech companies (NeXT Computer, Oracle Corporation, Gensym Corporation, and elsewhere), and has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. In her work she brings together skills in marketing strategy, user interface design, communications, product design, business process improvement, and management. Cynthia co-founded the Pittsburgh Bloggers blog directory and is a leader of PodCamp Pittsburgh. She speaks to businesses, schools, and other organizations about blogs and social media. You may wish to: Follow her on Plurk |
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David DeAngeloBorn in New Haven during the last 5 weeks of the Kennedy Administration and raised more or less precisely 10 miles due north-by-almost-northeast of Yale University, local Pittsburgh blogger David DeAngelo comes to the Pittsburgh Symphony blog with a dazzling array of intellectual blog qualifications:
Mr. DeAngelo can usually be found at home writing about national politics at the “2 Political Junkies” blog or admiring the smile of his wife, Janet. When asked, he states without hesitation that the smile is far more interesting. Educated long ago as a trumpet player, Mr. DeAngelo still owns all his horns (a Bach B-flat, Bach C, Yamaha D/E-flat, and a Getzen piccolo) and still plays them from time to time, weather permitting and as the mood strikes, if he feels like it. Finally, Mr DeAngelo comes from Southern New England where the best pizza on the planet can be found. |
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Bethany Hensel2008 has been a seminal year for young writer Bethany Hensel, highlighted with the finishing of her novel and the premiere of her new arts and entertainment blog, bethanyhensel.blogspot.com. International bestselling author Heather Graham says: "Bethany is wonderful... a professional who is natural and puts everyone around her at ease while asking incisive questions that lead to all kinds of interesting thought and conversation." As an arts and entertainment writer, Bethany has compiled a varied and extensive catalogue of articles on world-renowned performers such as violin superstar and Grammy winner Joshua Bell, violin virtuoso and Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame Award- winner Sarah Chang, winner of Criss Angel's Phenomenon television show, magician Mike Super, award-winning dance company Les Ballet de Monte-Carlo, two-time silver medalist figure skater Marie-France Dubreuil, CEO of the Romantic Times Kathryn Falk, Emmy winner Hank Phillippi Ryan, founder of the international Shoe Box Tour Jay Gilligan and more. She has also interviewed prominent Pittsburgh people such as Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, Artistic Producing Director of Point Park University's world-class theatre company the Pittsburgh Playhouse Ronald Allan-Lindblom, actor and Richard Rogers Award-winning playwright Marcus Stevens and many others. In addition, Bethany has also created four successful interview series: Pittsburgh Featured Model, Friday Night Rush (co-created and co-written by Brian Corlett) Booklovers Tuesdays and Fridays and So Thrill Me! - the latter two having afforded her the chance to meet and interview a plethora of international and national bestselling novelists such as Julie Anne Long, Julia Quinn, Barry Eisler, Christine Feehan, Mary Jo Putney, Kim Harrison, Heather Graham, Jeaniene Frost, Lori Foster, Celeste Bradley and Mary Balogh. Bethany's vivacious style," states award-winning author CJ Lyons, "communicates itself through her writing almost as vividly as it does in person." Bethany will continue the year and head into 2009 with coverage on the Pittsburgh Symphony, PNC Broadway Across America tour and a first-time collaboration with famed Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Born in Seoul, South Korea but adopted when she was young, Bethany was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is one of thirteen family members. |
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Robert LauverRobert Lauver joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra horn section in the 2000/2001 season. Often armed with a video camera, Bob provides our blogging audience with an insider's perspective of the PSO. Take a look at one of his most popular videos. Previously, Bob was a member of the horn section of the Saint Louis Symphony, as well as the St. Louis Symphony Brass Quintet. He has played with the Columbus Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Austin Symphony, Chicago Chamber Brass and Baltimore Symphony Bob attended The Peabody Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, and Western Michigan University. |
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Louis LuangkesornLouis Luangkesorn is in his third season of blogging for the PSO. He is a Chicago transplant, moving to Pittsburgh in 2004 to work as a researcher. He grew up playing the clarinet and the klui (a Thai bamboo flute), but now is merely a thoughtful listener. Louis has a wide variety of interests. He is an active runner and hiker, with 6 marathons behind him. He has deployed to support the military in Afghanistan, and with the Red Cross to respond to local fires and distant hurricanes. He and his wife marvel how one life can include all these aspects, and he likes to think and write about how all of these aspects of life as well as music fit together. |
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Jennifer McGuigganJennifer McGuiggan is a purveyor of fine writing and editing. You can find her in The Word Cellar, her online home for freelance writing, editing, and coaching. She is also thoroughly entrenched in bloggy culture, and you can read the stories she tells on her own blog. Jennifer writes narrative nonfiction articles for publications and works with clients on everything from editing book manuscripts to creating website content. She's currently working toward her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she is studying creative nonfiction. In other words: it's words, words, words all the time. And she's loving it. |
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Elizabeth PerryElizabeth Perry is a writer and new media artist. Her daily sketchbook journal may be found at www.elizabethperry.com/woolgathering, where she has been blogging since 2002. She is a fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and she works at The Ellis School, where she helps teachers integrate technology into a PK-12 curriculum. Perry has spoken and taught workshops about blogging and other social technologies for teachers and artists both locally and nationally. A children’s book she wrote, Think Cool Thoughts, was published by Clarion Books in 2005. In 2006-7, she spent nine months drawing daily at the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and maintained a blog to chronicle that experience at www.museumdrawing.com. She looks forward to drawing and discovery with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. |
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Jennifer PizzutoJennifer Pizzuto is a self-proclaimed know-it-all and compulsive blogger; in addition to her PSO blog, she maintains blogs on Vox, Facebook and MySpace. Jennifer has a B.A. in Writing from the Editor's Note: Jennifer is a first-timer who had never been to Heinz Hall or a PSO performance before joining our blog team. We're looking forward to discovering the experience through her eyes and ears! |
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