Teddy Abrams, Musical America’s 2022 Conductor of the Year, starts his tenth season as Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra (LO) this fall. As profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New Yorker, NPR, Opera News, the Wall Street Journal, PBS’s Articulate, and PBS NewsHour, he has been the galvanizing force behind the orchestra’s extraordinary artistic renewal and commitment to innovative community engagement since inaugurating his appointment in September 2014.
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Multiple GRAMMY Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Connie and Marc Jacobson Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center, and Conductor Laureate of the Hawaii Symphony. She was recently named one of the “Fifty Great Conductors,” past and present, by Gramophone Magazine, and is hailed for her work as a conductor, recording artist, audience builder, and champion of American composers.
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Acclaimed as one of the most exciting conductors of his generation, German conductor Moritz Gnann has received outstanding reviews for his fresh approach to a wide range of symphonic and operatic repertoire reaching from renaissance to contemporary.
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William Eddins is the Music Director Emeritus of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and a frequent guest conductor of major orchestras throughout the world.
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Known for his entertaining programs and engaging personality, Michael Krajewski is a much sought-after pops conductor in the U.S.A., Canada and abroad. His twenty-year relationship with the Houston Symphony included seventeen years as Principal Pops Conductor.
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Born in 1988 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Shokhakimov entered the Uspensky Music School for Gifted Children at the age of six, studying violin, viola and orchestral conducting (in the class of Professor Vladimir Neymer).
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Since his prodigious breakthrough as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the age of 19, Ilan Volkov has matured into a versatile conductor whose interpretations of familiar repertoire are sought after internationally. He enjoys a long-standing relationship with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as Principal Conductor from 2003 and Principal Guest Conductor since 2009. Ilan is currently Principal Guest Conductor with the Brussels Philharmonic.
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The 2023/24 season sees Matthew begin his first season as Chief Conductor of Finland’s Tampere Philharmonic, with programmes ranging from Bach’s St John Passion through to Mahler’s Symphony No.2. He also returns to the Finnish Radio Symphony, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and Wiener Symphoniker, and debuts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Tapiola Sinfonietta.
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Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Giedrė Šlekytė began her musical education at the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art-School in Vilnius. She went on to study conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, the Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and the Zurich University of Arts.
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