
Dear Future All-Stars,
On behalf of the entire Junior All Stars educational team, I want to welcome you. You have shown exceptional promise as a young musician. As a member of the band, choir, or orchestra, you will perform for audiences in Puerto Rico as we experience the best of the island. You will be in the capable hands of three of the finest conductors our state has to offer, alongside a coordinating team of dedicated music educators from around Illinois. We are excited to have you join us on this unforgettable adventure!
Tom Tedeschi
Illinois Executive Director

Dear Future All-Stars,
On behalf of the entire Junior All Stars educational team, I want to welcome you. You have shown exceptional promise as a young musician. As a member of the band, choir, or orchestra, you will perform for audiences in Puerto Rico as we experience the best of the island. You will be in the capable hands of three of the finest conductors our state has to offer, alongside a coordinating team of

dedicated music educators from around Illinois. We are excited to have you join us on this unforgettable adventure!
Tom Tedeschi
Illinois Executive Director
Illinois Jr.
All-Stars of Music
Illinois Jr. All-Stars of Music
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Meet Your All-Star Conductors
Our ASOM staff prides itself on the conductors hired to work with the finest young musicians in your area. These renown conductors from will be working with our All-Stars students. We are excited to announce our 2026 conductors!

Carol Brittin Chambers
Band Conductor
Carol Brittin Chambers is currently the composer and owner of Aspenwood Music, LLC. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, where she is also on the music faculty at Texas Lutheran University. Chambers is commissioned each year to compose and arrange works for concert band, marching band, orchestra, and various other ensembles. Her concert works have been selected to the J.W. Pepper Editor’s Choice List and the Bandworld Top 100 and have been performed at state educator conferences across the country, including the Midwest Clinic in Chicago. She was named the winner of the 2019 WBDI (Women Band Directors International) Composition Competition. She has arranged and orchestrated marching shows for numerous high school and college bands across the country, as well as The Crossmen Drum Corps. Before coming to TLU, Chambers taught middle school and high school band and private lessons for many years in the North East Independent School District, San Antonio, TX. She has also consistently performed with groups such as the Mid-Texas and San Antonio Symphonies. Chambers received a Master of Music in Trumpet Performance from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music Education from Texas Tech University. She studied under Vincent Cichowicz, John Paynter, Arnold Jacobs, James Sudduth, and Will Strieder.

Jamey Ray
Choir Conductor
A native Floridian, Jamey Ray serves as the sole arranger and producer for Voctave, crafting every note the group has ever sung and producing all their recordings. Since founding Voctave in 2015, Jamey has guided the group to prominence with their distinct a cappella renditions of Disney classics, Broadway hits, Christmas favorites, jazz standards, and many other exciting projects. For 14 years, Jamey was a music professor at Rollins College, an experience he is deeply grateful for. Now, he brings his expertise to Excelcia Music Publishing as the choral editor, where he continues to curate the ever-growing choral catalog, ensuring a rich selection of music for choirs of all ages and levels. With arrangements appearing on albums by Pentatonix, The King’s Singers and The Swingles, Jamey has produced hundreds of recordings and dozens of full albums for multiple Broadway and Disney performers as well as groups including Voctave, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park and the Liberty Voices.

Robert Hasty
Orchestra Conductor
Robert G. Hasty is the Music Director of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra and the Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Central Florida School of Performing Arts. He is also Artistic Director of the International Schools Choral Music Society. For 22 years, Hasty conducted the Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia at the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University where he also served as the Associate Director of Orchestras. Hasty began his career teaching music in the public schools in Southern California; this included tenure in administration as the District Music Coordinator of the Capistrano Unified School District where he supervised the K-12 music education program and its staff of 39 teachers. He also served an elected term as Vice President in charge of String Education for the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. A noted researcher in music cognition, Hasty has been an author for two publications delivered at the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition in Sydney, Australia. His research on conducting was published in 2005: “Critical Listening While Conducting”. The European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music invited him to speak at their conference in Portugal on these studies. As a conductor, Hasty has appeared with the All-American College Orchestra at Walt Disney World, Beijing Youth Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, Festival Internacional Sesc de Música Orquestra Sinfônica Acadêmica, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Highland Park Strings, Irvine Youth Symphony, La Primavera Orchestra, Merit Symphony Orchestra, Metropolis Youth Symphony, National High School Music Institute Orchestra, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, NU Opera Theater, NU Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the Piedmont Chamber Orchestra. His performances have been broadcast on WFMT radio in Chicago and on the Big Ten Network. Hasty’s international engagements include sold-out performances at the National Concert Hall of Taipei, Taiwan, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center Concert Hall and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall in Shanghai, China, Theatro Guarany in Pelotas, Brazil, the Busan Cultural Center Main Theater in Busan, South Korea, and the Suzhou Culture and Arts Centre Grand Theatre in Suzhou, China. He is sought-after as an honor orchestra conductor, conducting honor groups across the United States. He is a member of the conducting and music education faculties at the UCF School of the Performing Arts. Hasty has also spent his career as a freelance violinist and violist, having been a student of Alice Schoenfeld at the USC Thornton School of Music. These days, you will find him fiddling in several clubs and venues with various bands, including as fiddler and vocalist for singer-songwriter Christina Trulio (ASCAP). Noted as an "avid cyclist" by the Chicago Tribune, he trains for official century rides every year. Bob is especially proud to have been appointed as the newest member of the Dancing Bohemian Ukulele Team.
Meeting Info
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