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British conductor Michael Mishra is currently Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In 2003, he won the First Prize at the Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine; he has also been the recipient of the International Opera Workshop Conductor’s Award (Czech Republic, 2000) and the Antonia Brico Award for Conductors (USA, 1991). Michael is a frequent conductor in the Czech Republic, where he has conducted the Karlovy Vary Philharmonic, the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, and at the Silesian State Opera. In 2001, he made his debut with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, and more recently has conducted the Arpeggione Kammerorchester (Vienna, Graz, and Hohenems, Austria), Orquesta Sinfonica Uncuyo (Mendoza, Argentina), Saratov Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), and Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra (Ukraine). In 2004, he conducted the Daegu City Symphony Orchestra in the first performance by a Korean orchestra of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2. Reviewing that performance, the Yeong-Nam Daily wrote: “With flowing tempi and natural control of rubato, [Mishra] brought out beautifully the elaborate dialogues in Bruckner’s complexly woven collection of melodic lines. Maestro Mishra combined delicate analysis with musical charisma.”
Michael is also active as a guest conductor in the United States and has conducted numerous community, school, and honor orchestras. As a teacher, he has organized and served on the faculty of the Conductors Guild’s Conducting Workshops for String Educators. In 2007 and 2008, he was invited as a guest lecturer in conducting at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston.
In 2008, Michael’s 600-page analytical volume, A Shostakovich Companion, was published by Greenwood. Over the last few years, he has presented papers at Shostakovich conferences in Glasgow, Cambridge, and London.
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