The new music director will assume that position beginning with the 2009-2010 season. Current plans call for the announcement of the new music director to be made in June, 2009. Meyer’s audition will be followed in March and May by Gregory Vajda and Christopher Zimmerman respectively.
DANIEL MEYER, 36, is a native of Cleveland, and graduate of Denison University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. As a doctoral student at Boston University, Mr. Meyer received the Orchestral Conducting Honors Award. He also studied conducting at the Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Meyer has recently served as resident conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony.
He is also music director of the Asheville Symphony in North Carolina. Meyer has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra and the Utah, Forth Worth, San Antonio, Syracuse, Tallahassee, Mansfield, Santa Barbara, Lansing, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and Wheeling symphonies. He has also led the Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, and orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival.
Daniel Meyer has selected violinist Jennifer Frautschi as guest artist for this concert. They will collaborate in the Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, a true “evergreen” and one of the most frequently recorded works in the solo repertoire. Ms. Frautschi, a recent recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, was educated at Harvard, New England Conservatory, and The Juilliard School.
The 20th century is represented on this program by some brash theatrical music by Leonard Bernstein: his Three Dance Episodes from On the Town, the hit 1944 Broadway musical. It took Johannes Brahms more than twenty years to produce his First Symphony, but it did turn out to be what the world was awaiting. Generations of critics, musicians and audiences have acclaimed it as a genuine monument of the musical literature. -- www.fairfaxsymphony.org
Posted January 15th, 2009 by ruzik_tuzik
