Palomar/Pacific Coast
Concert Band
Meet Our Conductor
Kenneth Bell brings a wide range of musical experience to the Palomar/Pacific Coast Concert Band and has served as our Conductor since April 1992. He is a versatile performer with a long history of musical achievement. He is Assistant Conductor to Dr. David Chase with the La Jolla Symphony Chorus and previously Concert Band Conductor and French horn instructor at the Armed Forces School of Music in Virginia.
Conductor, Palomar/Pacific Coast Concert Band
He has also directed church choir programs on the East and West Coasts. As a basso-cantante, Mr. Bell has sung in opera, oratorio, recital, off-Broadway, and musical theater for over 25 years. He has appeared in more than eighty major roles with over forty opera and theater companies including the New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, and the Spoleto Festival in Italy.
Mr. Bell has also performed with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, Musica Sacra, the New England Bach Festival, the Abbey Singers, and was a member of the Waverly Consort. His performances have taken him throughout the Americas, Italy and Madeira.
Mr. Bell is bass staff singer with the La Jolla Symphony Chorus and is occasionally a soloist for the Band. He resides in Vista with his wife, Dianne, also an accomplished vocalist, and their two children. The Bells have been actively involved in community arts since moving to California in 1988.
Special Notes
Information on rehearsals and becoming a member
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*For more information, please contact the Band Director at 760-390-2990 or e-mail PCCB