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Francis Leger
Applied Virtuosics
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Member Bio Francis Leger, the American conductor and cellist, is Founder and CEO of Applied Virtuosic. Recognized as a gifted interpretive artist, he has a track record of transforming and building orchestras, and of exciting American and international audiences with profoundly moving performances. Leger has built upon an enormous range of experience. In Prague, he served as Principal Conductor and Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Chamber Philharmonic. In China, he served as Music Advisor to the national Kong Xiang-Dong Music Organization. He first garnered international attention over twenty-five years ago, and was one of the first Americans to guest conduct the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. In Italy, he served as Music Director of the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra. In the United States, Leger has worked with symphony orchestras and chamber orchestras in the Northeast and Southwest, and served a five-year tenure in music, production, and administration at The Opera Company of Boston. He has held conducting positions with other opera companies including American National Opera, Austin Opera, Opera New England, and the Hartt Opera Theater. Early in his career, he made his opera debut conducting Gaetano Donizetti's La Fille Du Regiment at the historic Central City Opera Festival in Colorado. Leger has conducted conservatory and university orchestras, internationally and in the United States as music director and guest conductor, and among others served at The Boston Conservatory, The University of Minnesota, Duluth, Central Texas College, and Eastern Connecticut State University. As Director of Orchestras and Assistant Professor at UMD, he was the artist cellist on faculty and led the orchestral program conducting the symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra, and orchestra festival. As the music faculty and first appointed Artist-in-Residence at Texas A&M University, Central Texas, he taught a full complement of music courses, established the music program, orchestra festival, performed chamber music concerts, and served in the University Center for Applied Research and Engagement. As head of music research he also worked on cybersecurity in music and founded the innovative Music Performance and Research Lab. Leger studied and trained at leading institutions, programs, and institutes in the United States and Europe, and graduated Phi Kappa Phi honors from Ithaca College School of Music in New York. He began playing cello shortly before age twenty-one, earned an MM degree in Cello Performance and was awarded the only Graduate Assistantship in Conducting from The Boston Conservatory. He continued his advanced studies in orchestral and opera conducting at the University of Hartford, The Hartt School with Austrian conductor Kurt Klippstatter. Leger’s work has taken him to major cities including Beijing, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Barcelona, London, and Paris. As Special Guest Conductor and Composer at the International Shanghai Television Festival, he was Music Director for classical programming and conducted live televised concerts, which featured world premieres of his music. He has been a Visiting Artist and Scholar at the distinguished American Academy in Rome. While working in Italy, he accepted a personal invitation and was one of the last conductors to study with the legendary Franco Ferrara. After hearing Francis Leger conduct the Arena Orchestra of Verona, Ferrara stated, “Rarely have I heard such emotion.”
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Mr. David Leibowitz
New York Repertory Orchestra
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Member Bio Celebrated for his innovative programming and exciting performances, conductor David Leibowitz has achieved international acclaim for his work on the concert, opera, and ballet stage. Mr. Leibowitz is the Music Director/Conductor and founder of the award-winning New York Repertory Orchestra . Some recent highlights of his tenure there have been a fully staged production of Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio and a landmark performance of Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 3. As an avid fan and champion of today’s music he has commissioned, worked with, and performed local and world premieres by some of today’s most important composers; such as Eduard Tubin, Harold Farberman, Paul Moravec, Stephen Dembski, John Schwabe, Salvador Brotons, William Dickerson, and Terry Pender. Since 2003 Mr. Leibowitz has held the post of Principal Conductor with the Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra (NY) and since 2003 has been on the conducting staff of the Rome Festival Opera (Italy), leading opera, ballet, and concert performances. He is also on the staff of the International Opera Institute at the Maud Powell Music Festival. (IL). Recent operatic highlights include performances of Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, and Le nozze di Figaro, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore, Bizet’s Carmen, and Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, all to critical acclaim. Throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe he has directed such ensembles as the Pleven Philharmonic (Bulgaria), the Orchester Pro Arte (Vienna), the Masterplayers Orchestra (Switzerland), the Orquestra Sinfonico de la Ciudad de Mexico, the Bach Festival Orchestra (Princeton, NJ), and the Brooklyn Opera and Dance Theater. Critics hailed his performances with the Pleven Philharmonic as “passionate and exciting.” In the New York City area, he has conducted the Greenwich Village Orchestra, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Centre Symphony Orchestra, Sound Symphony Orchestra, and Music at St. Paul’s (Columbia University). He has been invited back to those ensembles and venues repeatedly. A dedicated music educator, Mr. Leibowitz conducted the Third Street Philharmonia at the Third Street Music School Settlement in New York City from 2003-2005. He has worked as a conductor and coach with many other student and youth orchestras, including the Maud Powell Music Festival, the orchestras of Brooklyn College and City College of New York, the InterSchools Orchestra of New York, and the Gemini Youth Orchestra. Mr. Leibowitz received his Master of Arts degree in Performance Practice, Summa Cum Laude, from the City University of New York’s Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. His main studies were in performance, musicology, and composition. He was awarded a teaching fellowship and was named a Presidential Scholar of the University. He has continued his conducting studies with, among others, Her-bert Blomstedt, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Jacques-Louis Monod.
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Sandra Lemmon Sandra Lemmon Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music
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Dr. Linus Lerner
SASO and OSRN
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Member Bio Maestro Linus Lerner is praised for the charisma and passionate energy he brings to his musical performances, inspiring artists and audience. At home on either the symphony podium or the operatic pit, Lerner has conducted in the United States, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Spain, South Korea, Turkey and Russia. Some of Maestro Lerner's recent performances include: Sofia Philharmonic (Bulgaria), Torún Symphony (Poland), Opera of the Greek Theater of Tindari (Italy), Berliner Camerata and Philharmonic Orchestra of Leipzig (Germany); Plovdiv Opera, Sliven Symphony Orchestra, Vidin Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Sinfonietta and Sofia Philharmonic (Bulgaria); Orchestra of the Mussorvksy Conservatory (Russia); National Symphony Orchestra of Panama (Panama); Korea Peace Orchestra (South Korea); Orchestra of the Fondi Music Festival and Arezzo Symphony Orchestra (Italy); Antalya Symphony Orchestra (Turkey); Tsingtao Symphony Orchestra, Hunan Symphony Orchestra, Fuzhou Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Film and Radio (China); Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra, Texas Festival Orchestra, Opera in the Heights and Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra (USA); Acapulco Philharmonic Orchestra, San Luis Opera Festival Orchestra and Michoacán Symphony Orchestra (Mexico); Orchestra of the National Congress (Paraguay); Campinas Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Porto Alegre, Pernambuco University Opera Studio, Gramado Symphony Orchestra, Caxias do Sul University Symphony Orchestra, Goiânia Symphony Orchestra and Teatro da Paz Symphony Orchestra (Brazil). Lerner is currently Artistic Director and Conductor of SASO: Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra (USA); OSRN: Rio Grande do Norte Symphony Orchestra and OSG: Gramado Symphony Orchestra (Brazil); Gramado in Concert International Music Festival (Brazil); and the San Luis Potosi Opera Festival and the Linus Lerner International Voice Competition Linus Lerner (Mexico). He also serves as conductor of Round Top Festival Hill Institute (TX).
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Wilbur Lin
The Missouri Symphony
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Member Bio Known for his creative programming and inviting state presence, Wilbur Lin’s career has taken him to orchestra halls and opera theaters across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Taiwan. Recently appointed Music Director Designate of the Missouri Symphony (MOSY), Lin’s 2022/23 season includes a number of engagements with the MOSY, debuts with the Oak Ridge, Ann Arbor, and Elgin symphonies, and a return to Indiana’s Richmond Symphony. His other recent highlights include his debut with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, opening its 2021/22 season, and guest appearances with the Indianapolis Chamber, LaPorte Symphony, and Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Academy orchestras. In 2008, the Taiwanese-American conductor founded the Chamber Philharmonic Taipei (CPT). With a humble origin, formed mainly by conservatory students, the orchestra fully professionalized in 2013. Reflecting Lin’s expertise and musical passion, the CPT is known for being an extremely responsive and performance-practice-conscious orchestra, which focuses its programming on both early and contemporary music. The orchestra brings together musicians from around the world to perform during the summer. Over the years, CPT consisted of many members of major international orchestras, including the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Deutsche Oper, Lübeck Philharmonic, Taiwan Philharmonic, and Jacksonville Symphony orchestras. Recently finished his tenure as assistant conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (2019-2022), in addition to his position with the MOSY, Lin also assumes the assistant professorship as conductor of the Northern Illinois University Philharmonic and Opera Theatre in Fall, 2022. Lin regularly works with the Chamber Philharmonic Taipei and, in recent years, has conducted the Manchester Camerata, Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil (El Salvador), Taipei Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Indianapolis Chamber, Liverpool Mozart, Academy Orchestra of Taiwan Symphony, Richmond Symphony (IN), Missouri Symphony, and LaPorte Symphony orchestras. Lin has also cover conducted the Taiwan Symphony, Minnesota, and Cincinnati Ballet orchestras. A graduate of Riccardo Muti's Italian Opera Academy, Lin’s operatic endeavors include conducting Verdi’s Macbeth at Teatro Alighieri (Ravenna, Italy), Die Zauberflöte with the Winter Harbor Music Festival (Winter Harbor, Maine), and has coached and performed as a pianist with the Indianapolis Opera, IU Opera Theater, Reimagining Opera for Kids, and the Cincinnati Ballet. In summer, 2022, Lin will return to Winter Harbor Music Festival for a production of Barber of Seville and lead a new workshop production of Robeson by Scott Davenport Richards at the Cincinnati Opera.
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