Our Mission:

Amadeus Concerts inspires a community of classical music lovers in the Washington, D.C., area through up-close performances by professional musicians, educational outreach, and mentoring for young musicians. We collaborate with artistic partners and spotlight performers of the highest caliber, including our own Amadeus Orchestra.

The Amadeus Concerts, Inc. is a non-profit organization under IRS section 501(c)(3). Gifts are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Our Staff

Stephen Gorbos, Artistic and Executive Director

Stephen Gorbos is a composer, arts administrator, and educator based in Falls Church City, VA. As of June 2025, Stephen is the incoming Artistic and Executive Director of Amadeus Concerts; he is also the founder and director of Little City Concerts, an arts organization that pairs amazing performances with social justice issues in Falls Church City.

Stephen composes concert music for a range of ensembles and soloists, as well as music for film, theatre, and dance. His music, described by the Washington Post as “lyrical…warm and richly drawn,” and by Chicagomusic.org as “pulsating with a sense of urban life,” navigates a wide palette of genres and influences, creating a synthesis between styles as diverse as American rhythm & blues, western classical music, and Javanese gamelan. Whether composing for traditional ensembles, electronic media, or a mixture of both, Stephen tries to find and exploit the unique variables at play: this can be the technical abilities of his collaborators, or distinct features in communities with which he might be engaging on a particular project.

Stephen has had his works performed in concert halls across the US and in Europe by musicians such as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the NOW Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, and the Spektral Quartet. Recent projects include Mercurial Shadows (for Gideon), for oboe and electronics, commissioned by Ben Buergel, and the piano trio Vox Siderum, commissioned by the Maryland State Music Teachers Association. Recordings of Stephen’s music are available on Sono Luminous (What I Decided to Keep, with the Inscape Chamber Orchestra) and Albany Records (Push, with the Moores School Percussion Ensemble at the University of Houston). A recording of Veiled by violist Wendy Richman was recently released on New Focus Recordings.

Stephen’s work has received recognition and support from the state of Virginia (2024 Operations Grant from ArtsFairfax, 2023 and 2024 Project Grants from the Falls Church City Arts and Humanities Council, 2016 Strauss Artist Grant), The Randy Hostetler Living Room Foundation (2024 Foundation Grant) ASCAP (2005 Morton Gould Award), Meet the Composer (2007 Creative Connections Grant), and the American Music Center (Composer Assistance Project Grants in 2006 and 2010). In 2008, Stephen was awarded a Subito Grant from the American Composers Forum, and, as a recipient of the Aaron Copland Award, was composer-in-residence at Copland House. During the summer of 2012, Stephen was composer-in-residence at High Concept Labs, a multidisciplinary arts space in the heart of Chicago. Stephen has also been a fellow at both the Tanglewood Music Center (2006) and the Aspen Music Festival’s composition masterclass (2002), and his music has been featured at Ostrava Music Days (2007), the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium (2005), the Chamber Music Academy and Composers Forum of the East (2005), the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival (2004).

Active as an educator, Stephen maintains a private studio specializing in composition, theory, and music technology. Previously, Stephen taught at The Catholic University of America from 2008 – 2025, where he was an Associate Professor and served for 7 years as Chair of the Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition. Other teaching posts include Visiting Assistant Professor positions at Yale University (2012 – 2013) and The College of the Holy Cross (2007 – 2008). Stephen holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MM from the Yale School of Music, and a DMA from Cornell University.

 

A. Scott Wood, conductor of the Amadeus Orchestra

A. Scott Wood is the Artistic Director of Amadeus Concerts and the conductor of the Amadeus Orchestra. The orchestra performs several times each season on our concert series, performs on Amadeus collaborators’ programs and visits schools through the Amadeus Concerts’ Side-by-Side program.

Mr. Wood is also music director and conductor of the Arlington Philharmonic and the Amadeus Orchestra and directs the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra and the National Cathedral School and St. Albans School Orchestra.

He has guest-conducted the Wolf Trap Orchestra, the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Brevard (North Carolina) Philharmonic, the Rutgers Sinfonia, and the Washington Symphonic Brass, which he prepared for a Kennedy Center concert conducted by Leonard Slatkin. He has also appeared as a guest conductor for the Kennedy Center’s popular Messiah Sing-Along and worked with many choral ensembles, including the Vienna Choral Society, the Reston Chorale, the Fairfax Choral Society, the Navy Sea Chanters, and soloists from the Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists.

Mr. Wood conducted the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra at the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival, was conductor-in-residence of the American University Orchestra, and conducted productions at Eldbrooke Opera, The Washington Savoyards, and Signature Theatre.

He has been lauded in as “an incredible talent” by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and recognized for achievement in the arts by the American Association of University Women. In 2016 the National Cathedral School awarded him a fellowship in recognition of outstanding teachers and their lifelong impact on students. He received the Serage Award for Music Education from the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. Legendary Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle, the most-recorded musician in history, praised his musicianship to a rapturous audience at Wolf Trap.

Mr. Wood is on the conducting faculty of the Washington Conservatory of Music. He has given lectures for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and National Philharmonic at the Strathmore Performing Arts Center, the Goethe-Institut, and the Concurso di Canto Lirico in Peru as well as for Encore Learning, OASIS, and the Borders College of Classical Knowledge.

Mr. Wood has worked with young musicians as well, including the American Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Shenandoah Valley, Potomac Valley, Chesapeake, Prince William, and D.C. Youth Orchestras as well as George Mason University’s Potomac Arts Academy. He has been engaged as a guest-conductor for numerous honors orchestras and mentored teacher-conductors through the Fairfax County Public Schools Academy.

Born into a military family, Mr. Wood traveled extensively as a young man and learned the trumpet in a German Musikverein. While attending the University of Illinois, he went to London as a finalist in the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition. He subsequently was a fellow at the International Conductor’s Workshop in the Czech Republic, was granted the first joint fellowship of the American Symphony Orchestra League and Chorus America, and was given a study fellowship in Italy.

Mr. Wood lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Mary, their daughters Emma (born in 2003) and Eileen (born in 2006), and their dog Pixie.

Our Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors is actively engaged in loving stewardship of Amadeus Concerts. Interested in becoming part of our board? Please reach out to Board President Maury Brown at president@amadeusconcerts.com for more information

Maury Brown, President

Maury Brown served the Agency for International Development as Director of Data Processing and Director of Development Information. He founded and chaired the International Network for Development Information Exchange which comprised more than 90 government and international agencies. Since retirement in 1998 he has been a management consultant to the World Bank and several private companies working in international development.

Mr. Brown holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in international relations from Syracuse University and New York University. He is a graduate of the Erie (PA) Conservatory of Music where he studied musical theory and composition. He was selected as first chair clarinet and saxophone to the Northwest Pennsylvania District Band two years in succession. He developed his musical talents into a lifelong avocation, attending musical performances in many parts of the world. Mr. Brown joined the Amadeus Board in 2005 and also serves on the Board of OAR, a non-profit organization providing rehabilitation services to inmates at the Fairfax Adult Detention Center. Mr. Brown actively mentors inmates at that facility.

Jennifer Murphy, Vice President

Mrs. Murphy recently retired as Assistant Vice President for Research & Economic Development/Director of Technology Transfer at George Mason University. She also served as Executive Director of George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (GMIP), a non-profit corporation established to manage the university’s intellectual property. Ms. Murphy has been an enthusiastic supporter of and donor to the Amadeus Concerts for many years. She has served on the Board of Directors for three years. She is an active volunteer and lay eucharistic minister at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls where she was Senior Warden from 1991 to 1993. Currently she chairs the Stewardship Committee at St. Francis.

Shelley S. Mastran, Ph.D., Secretary

Shelley Mastran teaches graduate courses in Urban Planning at Virginia Tech in Arlington, where she specializes in Land Use Planning, Planning for Parks and Open Space, and practical studios. She is a planning consultant with the City of Falls Church and has consulted on planning issues with many nonprofit organizations and local governments.

She has a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Maryland and a B.A. from Vassar College. She formerly directed the Rural Heritage Program at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is a co-author of Saving America’s Countryside, Mountaineers and Rangers, and the Better Models for Development series with Ed McMahon. She has a publication forthcoming on Fairfax County. She is on the board of the Reston Museum and serves on the Reston Planning & Zoning Committee.

Shelley enjoys reading, hiking, traveling, and being with her children and grandchildren.

RJ Doro, Treasurer

Music has played an integral role in RJ’s life since he played (read: botched) his first note on the trumpet at twelve years old. He went on to play in the upper school orchestra and jazz band at St. Albans School in Washington, DC, as well as sing with the school’s chorale. Unable to satiate his musical appetite, RJ participated in several other instrumental groups in the area, namely the DC Youth Orchestra, American Youth Philharmonic, and Brass of Peace.

RJ matriculated at Washington University in St. Louis where he continued his musical endeavors, studying for his engineering degree on the side. He was a member of an all-male a cappella group and later joined the executive committee overseeing the school’s eleven singing groups. Upon graduation he returned to DC, and now works in data analytics for an insurance brokerage firm.

Benjamin Hobart (Hobie) Audet

Hobie Audet retired in 2004 from a 36-year career with the federal government as a physicist and operating systems programmer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of Energy and the Department of the Army.  Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, he earned his Bachelor’s Degree (High Honors in Physics) from the College of William and Mary in 1968.

Mr. Audet became associated with Amadeus Concerts through his wife Mary Audet.  Together they have managed and coordinated the post-concert receptions for several years. They live in Rockville, MD.

Mark S. Gordon

Mark grew up on a farm in southeast Pennsylvania where his parents founded the first vineyard and winery in that state post-Prohibition. Mark spent his Saturdays as an adolescent and teen working in that small family business. This was the start of a lifelong love affair with food and wine.

After earning a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College, Mark worked briefly repairing and installing avionics in general aviation aircraft. Since he didn’t aspire to technicianhood, Mark undertook additional course work at the University of Pennsylvania while working as a tuxedo-clad waiter in a French restaurant then applied to graduate school in engineering. He subsequently earned an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley then embarked on a lifelong career in technology and product development that included more than two decades in Silicon Valley.

Not content with microchips, systems, software, startups, hazardous waste and vacuum induction furnaces, and later electronics for trains and quality management systems, Mark dipped his toe in the real estate and historic renovation business by buying then renovating a 1901 Queen Anne Victorian building in San Francisco. That Queene Anne eventually gave way to rehabilitation of historic row houses in Baltimore, two with collapsed roofs.

Mark has been a lifelong lover of classical music and other musical genres. He remembers well listening to the single-frequency radio tuner in his parents’ house that played the Philadelphia classical station. He vaguely recalls falling asleep while hearing Artur Rubinstein play at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. With a son who is a professional ballet dancer and a daughter who is an engineer, Mark tries to stay up to date with both culture and technology while pursuing his other hobbies of cooking, hiking, bicycling, travel, and reading.

Tena Nauheim

Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Tena came from a family to which classical music was central. She began studying piano at age 6. She came to Washington and attended American University, majoring in Education and minoring in music with a speciality in piano. After graduating, She taught elementary school, and after a few years, taught choral music at religious schools in the area. Subsequently, Tena began a new career as an event planner, for ten years. Finally, she pursued a successful career as a residential realtor, for more than 25 years.

Tena has done extensive volunteer work, serving on boards of The Langley School, Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center, and her Homeowners Association. She was a docent at the B’nai Brith Museum, counseled prisoners at the Fairfax County Jail, and is active at her synagogue. In recent years, Tena has grown in her enthusiasm and support, along with her husband, David Harrison, for Amadeus Concerts.

Tena enjoys tennis, hiking, reading, cooking, traveling, birding and all things cultural.
She is blessed with two children, five grandchildren and a wonderful family blend of Nauheim-Harrisons.

Joanne Robinson

A lover of classical music since her childhood ballet and piano lessons, Joanne Robinson has enjoyed and supported the Amadeus Concerts since 2012 and joined the Board of Directors in mid-2022. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she graduated from Eastern High School and then received a bachelor of arts degree from Gettysburg College with a major in mathematics, and a minor in chemistry. She also sang and toured with the Gettysburg College Choir under the direction of founder, Dr. Parker B. Wagnild. She spent her career with the Office of Naval Intelligence in support of US naval weapon system acquisition programs, retiring in 2006. She then worked under contract to the National Intelligence Council as executive secretary of the Weapon and Space Systems Intelligence Committee through December 2016.

Joanne enjoys gardening, sewing, reading, and all form of the arts. She resides in McLean, Virginia.

Our Story:

The Amadeus Concerts, Inc. began in 1980 as the Great Falls Music Society. The late Timothy Rowe, a noted musician and conductor and inspiring friend to many, brought together a community of music lovers in Northern Virginia. From the beginning the mission of Amadeus Concerts included delivering fine music to local communities and music education and outreach for all ages.

Amadeus Concerts, through the support of the board and a group of benefactors, appointed A. Scott Wood as the Artistic and Executive Director in 2006. After 24 years of service, it was announced in Spring 2025 that he would be stepping down from the Artistic and Executive Director position but remain on as conductor of the Amadeus Orchestra. Stephen Gorbos has been appointed to take his place in July 2025 as Artistic and Executive Director.

Over recent years the organization has grown its audiences and found supporters from many areas beyond Great Falls and McLean including the Dulles Corridor, Maryland and Washington DC. The board continues to be dedicated to cultivating a love for music steeped in the western classical tradition, with concerts and educational events intended for a broad audience. In recent years the active side-by-side program in schools has been championed by past president, Maury Brown, whose untiring work has helped put Amadeus Concerts truly on the musical map in Northern Virginia.

The Amadeus Orchestra

Conducted by A. Scott Wood, the Amadeus Orchestra comprises professional musicians from the Washington DC area, including members of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the nation’s finest military bands.

The Amadeus Orchestra received critical acclaim in the Metropolitan Area with the release of its Naxos CD featuring a live performance at Saint Luke Church in McLean, Virginia. The orchestra has performed at the Kennedy Center and other venues in the DC area, and frequently performs with partner organizations throughout the region. On the Amadeus Concerts series it is regularly featured in the intimate setting and stunning acoustics of Saint Luke Church, McLean where audiences have the opportunity to experience the passion and joy of orchestral music up close.

Volunteers

Volunteers play a crucial role in the success of Amadeus Concerts. The valuable time, skills and creativity of dedicated volunteers help keep Amadeus Concerts’ wonderful tradition of artistic excellence and warm hospitality alive.

At each concert “food fairies” donate sweets and savories to share at our post-concert receptions. Volunteers work at the ticket tables, hand out programs, write program notes, help design ad campaigns, host special benefit events, and much more.

If you wish to become involved and share your skills and time in support of our program and community, please contact us.

Praise for Amadeus Concerts

“… a valued arts organization with a strong mission, high-quality concerts, and quality artistic programming…” The Arts Council of Fairfax County

“… high-quality classical programs presented in an innovative way.” The Virginia Commission for the Arts

“The music and the friends I have made through Amadeus Concerts have enriched my life for the past 25 years. I look forward to each season and am always pleased with the musical selections and expert and easy to understand pre-concert lectures by Maestro Scott Wood. The post concert receptions give me an opportunity to mingle with the members of the orchestra who are always open to share their musical experiences with me. As community budgets continue to shrink funding for the arts, I think it’s important to encourage fine orchestras like Amadeus. May it continue to thrive in the years to come.”
—audience member Phyllis Shea

“Both as a soloist with the orchestra and as a happy audience member, I cannot recommend Amadeus Concerts highly enough. Maestro Scott Wood always produces magnificent performances from his superb ensemble, and every orchestral and chamber program is a wonderful experience. This organization is a regional gem!”—soloist Rachel Franklin

“Amadeus Concerts and Orchestra is a fantastic organization—a real treasure and rare gem in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. It has been my great pleasure to perform as guest soloist with Maestro Scott Wood and members of the Orchestra a couple of times, and both times were equally and magnificently rewarding. The level of musicianship, artistic commitment and dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism were stellar. I look forward to a continued friendship and collaborative relationship with one of the finest groups not only in the DC area, but anywhere.” —soloist Thomas Pandolfi