![]() Hayes has served as music director for the Cadillac Area Symphony Orchestra, where he often re-orchestrated works to fit the demands of his players’ varying skill levels. This organization earned the Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Educational Endeavors Award. Hayes also helped form the Ypsilanti Youth Orchestra and became its first music director, a position he still holds. This program was noted for its excellence by the Governor of Michigan. He created the Music Masters program for the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, which partners retired string players and teachers with students for one-on-one mentoring. Hayes is an active promoter of the arts in his community, where he has served on the Board of Directors of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the River Raisin Ragtime Revue. He has taught music at all levels from kindergarten through college, and is a retired music teacher and lecturer from the Ypsilanti (MI) public school district. He received his Bachelor of Music Education from Southern Illinois University and his Master of Music from Western Illinois University. ![]() William Hayes is a retired music educator residing in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Pemberton’s leadership, TAHS was awarded an Institutional Achievement Award from the Michigan Museums Association. In 2001, he served as project director for the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition, Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future. He was responsible for the development of numerous exhibitions and outreach programs that greatly enhanced TAHS’s visibility and reputation among the community. Pemberton has also served as President of the Tecumseh Area Historical Society (TAHS), where he oversaw that organization’s growth in membership, endowment and community arts and humanities programming. He has produced eight reference recordings with R4 that have received national and international critical acclaim. Pemberton has overseen the recreation of music for The Henry Ford Museum’s Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition 100th anniversary celebration and developed programming for schools, community audiences and prestigious cultural venues. Pemberton is a scholar and collector of ragtime music and history and helps maintain R4’s extensive collection of vintage orchestrations, piano sheet music, and original source materials. ![]() He has also performed as R4’s tuba player. William Pemberton resides in Tecumseh, MI and is cofounder and former music director of the River Raisin Ragtime Revue. The group was founded in Tecumseh but the musicians come from all over southeastern Michigan with impressive credentials, a great local treasure.William Pemberton, Chair and Executive Director Catch R4 in April playing more traditional ragtime (see their website for details) and at Greenfield Village on July 4th with the DSO and on July 17th for the Ragtime Street Fair. R4 was founded about 10 years old and has gotten national recognition for its excellent musicianship and the well-researched commentary of William Pemberton, its executive director. ![]() That review was a bit terse so I'll add a few details: The church was packed with over 300 listeners, The River Raisin Ragtime Revue (R4) was energetic, Anita was exceptional with a talent that is just starting to be recognized, the large chorus from the Congregational Church and Our Own Thing was professional, Anita's step-father William Hayes' arrangement of the encore 'He's Got the Whole World in His Hands' with all hands on deck was spectacular (big standing ovation).
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