Conductor News

MUSIC SEOUL ARTS CENTER, Concert Hall Thursday: 11 a.m. Concert. This concert is part of a series of classical performances held every second Thursday of the month at 11 a.m. This week, cellist Song Young-hoon plays pieces by Brahms, Wagner and Beethoven.

Conductor Ilan Volkov was at the helm when Unsuk Chin's cello concerto was acclaimed at last year's Proms, and his affinity for her detailed style was evident as he directed the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK premiere of Chin's 2008 work for orchestra, RocanA .

Music Director/Conductor John Stubbs of California Ballet has created an extraordinary multi-media performance experience where live classical music, dance, and film converge for one special evening in San Diego's most exciting music and dining venue -- Anthology supper club in Little Italy.

Albert-George Schram recruited the TSO Chorus and the color guard from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for the "Patriotic Pops" show.

Ashkenazy's Prokofiev Festival. Sydney Symphony. Violin: Boris Belkin. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Conductor/trumpeter Jeff Nevin will lead the "Day of the Dead" concert at Copley Symphony Hall.

Arguably the coolest guy to ever live, Lou Reed is coming to Miller Theatre on February 5th.

Okanagan Symphony Orchestra is entering its 50th anniversary season and there was a festive atmosphere in Cleland Theatre as people gathered to enjoy the opening concert on Saturday evening.

Programming brilliance almost overshadowed performance brilliance as the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Conductor Carlo Ponti, opened its concert season Saturday and Sunday.

At age 28, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, from Venezuela, officially takes over as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

You can be hailed as one of the great talents of the 21st century - but you still have to wait in airports when your flight is canceled.

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel leads El Sistema during a June 2009 rehearsal in Caracas, Venezuela.

San Diego Symphony music director Jahja Ling. Jahja Ling, the San Diego Symphony's conductor and music director, has never forgotten the first time he heard the sound of a live symphony orchestra.

Conductor James Levine is withdrawing from upcoming performances with the Metropolitan Opera and Boston Symphony Orchestra to have surgery for a herniated disk in his back.

The North Carolina Symphony hopes to find some all-stars. The symphony and the Triangle Philharmonic Association are starting the North Carolina Symphony Young All-Stars, a chamber orchestra for advanced high school musicians.

Just last Wednesday, a few hours before he was to take up the baton for the gala first night of his first full season at the New York Philharmonic , Alan Gilbert , the orchestra's 42-year-old conductor, came offstage, ducked into his suite at Lincoln Center and, opening a bottle of Poland Spring, dropped down onto his month-old, royal blue, ...

Conductor and music director Michael Stern's fourth classical season at the helm of the Kansas City Symphony, which begins next weekend, is chockablock with Jewish virtuosos, from the bookend pianists Yefim Bronfman and Vladimir Feltsman to violinist Gil Shaham to pianist Simone Dinnerstein.

Share + Sep 15, 2009 4:46 pm US/Central RALEIGH, N.C. 1 of 1 Hicks joined the Minnesota Orchestra as assistant conductor beginning in the 2006-07 season and is conductor of the new "Inside the Classics" series there.

The appointment of Sarah Hicks as Associate Conductor of the North Carolina Symphony was announced today by its president and CEO, David Chambless Worters.

Roanoke Symphony Orchestra conductor David Wiley to receive 2009 Citizen of the Year award from Roanoke NAACP Today is definitely a news days in the Roanoke Valley arts world.