Alison Gaines is the Ron Crocker Chair of Orchestra for the University of Nebraska in Kearney, is Assistant Professor of Orchestra and Bass and is the Music Director of the Kearney Symphony Orchestra. She holds a Doctoral degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Kansas, Lawrence and a Master’s degree from U.S.C. in Los Angeles for bass performance where she also won the Principal Bass stipend for 2 years consecutively and 2 Orchestral Leadership awards...