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Born in New York City, Mr. Charry studied piano and oboe at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and received Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees in orchestral conducting from the Juilliard School of Music in the class of Jean Morel. His other conducting teachers were Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt in Hamburg, Germany, and Pierre Monteux at his school for conductors in Maine. For nine years Mr. Charry was assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell, whose biography he is writing.
Other past positions include Music Director of the Nashville (Tennessee) and Canton (Ohio) Symphonies, and the Peninsula Music Festival (Wisconsin). He has been a guest conductor of the orchestras of Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Dallas, Syracuse, Louisville, San Antonio, and Kansas City; the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Belgian BRT, Vancouver CBC and Swiss Radio Orchestras, the Singapore Symphony, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Orchestra of the State of Mexico.
Opera credits include the New York City, Santa Fe, and San Francisco Spring Operas, Kansas City Lyric Theater, Lake Erie Opera Theater (with the Cleveland Orchestra), Lake George Opera Festival, Netherlands Opera, Holland Festival, and the Boston Lyric Opera. He has conducted for the José Limón Dance Company in the United States, South and Central America, Europe, and the Far East and, in the US, for the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Mr. Charry was Music Director of the Mannes Orchestra and head of Orchestral Conducting at the Mannes College of Music in New York City from 1989 to 1999. In October 1990 he conducted the Mannes Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and in June 1995, led the Mannes Chamber Orchestra in eight concerts in France. Mr. Charry and the Mannes Orchestra were recipients of an ASCAP award for adventuresome programming of contemporary music. Mr. Charry remains on the Mannes part-time faculty, teaching courses in conducting, preparation for orchestra auditions for graduate instrumentalists, and seminars on 20th Century orchestra and opera repertoire.
In addition to Mannes, Mr. Charry has also held faculty positions at Boston University and its Tanglewood Institute, Syracuse University, and The Juilliard School. A past president of the Conductors' Guild, other honors include a Fulbright Scholarship, grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, the Elizabeth Ring Mather and William Gwinn Mather Fund, and the Alice M. Ditson Conductors Award of Columbia University for service to American Music.
Mr. Charry lives in New York City and Maine.
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