Frank Kaderabek has had a long and distinguished career as a professional trumpet player. He has been Principal Trumpet in the Dallas and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, Assistant Principal Trumpet in the Chicago Symphony and most recently Principal Trumpet in the Philadelphia Orchestra, a position he held from 1975 until his retirement in 1995. Since his retirement he remains active as a soloist and clinician throughout the United States. In 2001 he was elected to a second four-year term on the board of directors of The International Trumpet Guild. He speaks fluent Czech, collects rare books about WWI and lives on a farm in Berks
County, Pennsylvania with his wife Mary.
Steve Reisteter was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. As a performer on all of the woodwind instruments, he is a member of the Allentown Band, the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, the Hanover Woodwind Quintet and frequently plays in orchestras for stage musicals. As a “pop” musician, he has performed with Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Hope, Clay Aiken, Johnny Mathis, Bernadette Peters, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Irish Tenors and the national touring company of “Grease.” A published composer, Steve’s compositions have performed across the world by such groups as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Amherst Saxophone Quartet and the US Coast Guard Academy Band. Steve resides in Bethlehem with his wife, Johanna, a horn player in The Allentown Band, and their two French Chartreux cats, Zoe and Ravel.
Randy Edelman is a multi-talented percussionist who currently performs with many of Southeastern Pennsylvania’s finest musical organizations. He is principal percussionist for the Allentown Symphony Orchestra and The Allentown Band. Mr. Edelman also has active free lance entertainers such as Victor Borge, Englebert Humperdinck, Helen Reddy and the Irish Tenors. In addition to his busy performance schedule, Randy maintains a private percussion studio in his home. Randy’s wife Terry is a member of the Flute Section in The Allentown Band.
James Moyer holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Susquehanna University and earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees at the University of Oklahoma. While attending graduate school, Dr. Moyer was a member of the nationally renowned University of Oklahoma Percussion Orchestra He appeared with this group at numerous national and international conventions and is a featured soloist on the group's first compact disc, Laser Woodcuts. He has since released numerous publications, a solo marimba recording and a marimba method now standard in college percussion programs nationally. Dr. Moyer currently is Director of Bands at Lafayette College and Timpanist with the Allentown Band.
Barbara and Charles Cohen attended the same opera workshop as very young singers but did not realize it until years later when they were married and merged their scrap books. Often singing together, they have appeared in principal roles in such Operas as Carmen, Boris Godunov, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and Tosca as well as on the musical theater stage in My Fair Lady, Pajama Game, South Pacific and Camelot. In the U.S. they have had solo appearances with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and Youngstown Symphonies and international experience in The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Hungary. Barbara has been heard in many concerts singing the art songs of Kurt Weil and Chuck is a long tenured Cantorial Soloist in Pittsburgh PA. In addition to making beautiful music together, Chuck and Barbara are the proud parents of two daughters and greatly enjoy their four grandchildren.
Ronald Demkee, Conductor of The Allentown Band since 1977 joined the Allentown Band in 1964. He is also Associate Conductor of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra since 1980, and teaches in the Music Departments of Muhlenberg and Moravian Colleges. Mr. Demkee is active as both an adjudicator and guest conductor for bands and orchestras from the scholastic to professional levels. He is the recipient of “The Sudler Legion of Merit” presented by the John Philip Sousa Foundation, the “Citation of Excellence” presented by the National Band Association, an inductee of the National High School Band Directors’ Hall of Fame; and recipient of the “Allentown Arts Ovation Award” for outstanding contributions to the performing arts and the city’s “Lifetime Achievement Award.” He has been a member of the select American Bandmasters Association since 1984. He and his wife Joan, a French horn player in the band, have been married since 1967 and are the proud parents of two children, Mark and Elizabeth, and two grandchildren, Aidan and Sarah.