Notable among his teachers have been Leon Russianoff, Mitchell Lurie, John Anderson, and Cloyde Williams. O'Neil is active as a recitalist, chamber musician, and clinician as well as being a prolific arranger of music for clarinet and saxophone solos and ensembles. He subsequently held one-year appointments at Utah State University and at Memorial University of Newfoundland before coming to UTPA. O'Neil received his DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree in clarinet from the University of Minnesota in 1990 where he studied with Cloyde Williams and John Anderson. William O'Neil joined the Faculty of the University of Texas Pan American in 1992, where he now holds the rank of Professor. He also performed as a member of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston (SC) and at the Festival dei Due Monde in Spoleto, Italy.ĭr. Brownlow performed as soloist in the inaugural concert of the 1996 Festival Internacional de Otoño in Matamoros, Mexico. He has also played with the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus Band, the Red Skelton Show Band, and at the Carowinds Amusement Park in Charlotte, NC. Outside of the Valley, he has performed with the Corpus Christi Symphony, University of North Carolina Faculty Brass Quintet, Foothills Brass Quintet (Greenville, SC), Greenville Symphony, Greenville Brass Quintet, Wheaton (IL) Summer Symphony, North Carolina Symphony (Raleigh), North Carolina Bach Festival (Raleigh), Winston-Salem (NC) Symphony, Augusta (GA) Symphony, and Lake Forest (IL) Symphony. In addition, he has performed with the South Texas Festival Orchestra, Border Brass Quintet, Brownsville Messiah Orchestra, Valley Sinfonette and South Texas Chamber Orchestra. Brownlow currently performs as co-principal trumpet of the Valley Symphony Orchestra, and also with the UTRGV Brownsville Faculty Brass Quintet. He has served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano at Idaho State University and Lecturer of Piano at UNCG.ĭr. Andrade obtained the Bachelors and Licenciatura in Music degrees from the University of Costa Rica in San José the Masters of Music from Arizona State University, an Artist Diploma from Indiana University-South Bend and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In the year 2000 he was awarded the National Prize of Music, the highest recognition given to a musician by the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture. Many of his performances have been recorded and broadcasted by the Phoenix Classical Radio Station KBAK, Costa Rican University Radio and Costa Rican National Television. As a recitalist he has appeared in almost every Costa Rican city, Santa Cruz and La Paz in Bolivia, San Salvador in El Salvador, Washington DC, Oslo and Madrid.
He has performed as soloist with the South Bend Symphony, the UNCG Symphony, the ASU Symphony, the Central American Symphony, the Bolivian National Symphony, the Costa Rican Youth Symphony, and in several occasions with the Costa Rican National Symphony. Costa Rican pianist Juan Pablo Andrade is the recipient of numerous awards, among them are the First Prize at the Artlivre International Piano Competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil First Prize in the National Piano Competition in CR First Prize in the Concert of Soloists Competition at Arizona State University First Prize at the UNCG Concerto Competition and Second Prize in the University of Costa Rica Concerto Competition.
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