Complete program information can be found on the Concert Season/Tickets page.
Season tickets are available using a downloadable form found on the Concert Season | Tickets page.
Season tickets are available using a downloadable form found on the Concert Season | Tickets page.
Four Fabulous Conductors
Meet them all!
The four conductors for our 41st Season are finalists for the position of
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra.
We hope you will fill out an audience survey after each concert and
share your impressions of the concert and the conductor. Surveys will be available in the lobby.
Meet them all!
The four conductors for our 41st Season are finalists for the position of
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra.
We hope you will fill out an audience survey after each concert and
share your impressions of the concert and the conductor. Surveys will be available in the lobby.
September 23, 2016 – Preview Concert: The Jazz Adventure
Jonathan Brandani, Conductor
Jonathan Brandani is an emerging Italian born conductor appreciated for his "fine regard for the score’s details, his clear, purposeful indications and his enthusiasm" (Seen and Heard International). Since 2015 Jonathan has been Assistant Conductor at Minnesota Opera, where he recently conducted a new production of Tosca. Since 2012 he has been Music Director of LuccaOPERAfestival (Italy). Jonathan is also a laureate of the Merola Opera program at San Francisco Opera Center. Maestro Brandani has guest conducted numerous European and American orchestras and future engagements include conducting La Boheme for the Minnesota Orchestra, La Traviata for LuccaOPERAfestival, and participation as a finalist to the 2016 Flick International Conducting Competition (London, UK) and the Nino Rota International Conducting competition (Matera, Italy).
Jonathan graduated in Orchestra Conducting from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and Yale University. His teachers have included Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta, Colin Metters, Shinik Hahm, Mark Stringer. A passionate interpreter and scholar of early music, Jonathan has been playing harpsichord with European early music orchestras and recording for Deutsche Grammophon and VIRGIN Classics.
Jonathan Brandani, Conductor
Jonathan Brandani is an emerging Italian born conductor appreciated for his "fine regard for the score’s details, his clear, purposeful indications and his enthusiasm" (Seen and Heard International). Since 2015 Jonathan has been Assistant Conductor at Minnesota Opera, where he recently conducted a new production of Tosca. Since 2012 he has been Music Director of LuccaOPERAfestival (Italy). Jonathan is also a laureate of the Merola Opera program at San Francisco Opera Center. Maestro Brandani has guest conducted numerous European and American orchestras and future engagements include conducting La Boheme for the Minnesota Orchestra, La Traviata for LuccaOPERAfestival, and participation as a finalist to the 2016 Flick International Conducting Competition (London, UK) and the Nino Rota International Conducting competition (Matera, Italy).
Jonathan graduated in Orchestra Conducting from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and Yale University. His teachers have included Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta, Colin Metters, Shinik Hahm, Mark Stringer. A passionate interpreter and scholar of early music, Jonathan has been playing harpsichord with European early music orchestras and recording for Deutsche Grammophon and VIRGIN Classics.
October 29, 2016 – Russian Romance
Eduard Zilberkant, Conductor
Russian born Eduard Zilberkant is recognized as one of today’s most gifted artists and has an active career as conductor and pianist. Maestro Zilberkant has guest conducted the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague and on tour to Germany; the orchestra of Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano in Italy; the Martinu Chamber Orchestra in the Czech Republic and Germany; the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Sicily; the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra in New York City; the Teatro di San Carlo Orchestra in Naples, Italy; and the Prague Philharmonic in Prague and Italy.
A Fulbright Scholar in Germany, Eduard Zilberkant received a Solisten Diploma from the Freiburg Musik Hochschule. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Temple University in Philadelphia. His teachers have included Jerome Rose, Vitaly Margulis, Theodore Lettvin, Robert Spano, Carl St. Claire and Robert Shaw. Presently, he is Artist in Residence and Professor of Piano at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. For the past fifteen years he has been Music Director and Conductor of the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra.
Eduard Zilberkant, Conductor
Russian born Eduard Zilberkant is recognized as one of today’s most gifted artists and has an active career as conductor and pianist. Maestro Zilberkant has guest conducted the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague and on tour to Germany; the orchestra of Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano in Italy; the Martinu Chamber Orchestra in the Czech Republic and Germany; the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Sicily; the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra in New York City; the Teatro di San Carlo Orchestra in Naples, Italy; and the Prague Philharmonic in Prague and Italy.
A Fulbright Scholar in Germany, Eduard Zilberkant received a Solisten Diploma from the Freiburg Musik Hochschule. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Temple University in Philadelphia. His teachers have included Jerome Rose, Vitaly Margulis, Theodore Lettvin, Robert Spano, Carl St. Claire and Robert Shaw. Presently, he is Artist in Residence and Professor of Piano at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. For the past fifteen years he has been Music Director and Conductor of the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra.
March 25, 2017 – Bon Voyage: The Glorious Sound of Paris
Elliot Moore, conductor
Music Director of New York City’s Blue Period Ensemble and the Detroit Medical Orchestra, Elliot Moore is one of the most exciting and multi-faceted American conductors of his generation. In 2015 he also assumed the music directorship of Michigan’s Five Lakes Silver Band, and he continues as the Associate Conductor of the Canadian Chamber Orchestra of New York City. Elliot Moore made his Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall debut on March 3, 2015, conducting his newly formed Blue Period Ensemble. His current season is highlighted by his debut with Minnesota’s St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Alaska, Elliot Moore received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where he had been a recipient of the Helen Wu Graduate Conducting Fellowship. He began his conducting studies at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak with Kenneth Kiesler and was subsequently invited to be his assistant at the Manhattan School of Music, a position he held for two years. Off the podium, Elliot Moore has a keen interest in languages, is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and is an award-winning cellist, who has performed in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States.
Elliot Moore, conductor
Music Director of New York City’s Blue Period Ensemble and the Detroit Medical Orchestra, Elliot Moore is one of the most exciting and multi-faceted American conductors of his generation. In 2015 he also assumed the music directorship of Michigan’s Five Lakes Silver Band, and he continues as the Associate Conductor of the Canadian Chamber Orchestra of New York City. Elliot Moore made his Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall debut on March 3, 2015, conducting his newly formed Blue Period Ensemble. His current season is highlighted by his debut with Minnesota’s St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Alaska, Elliot Moore received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where he had been a recipient of the Helen Wu Graduate Conducting Fellowship. He began his conducting studies at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak with Kenneth Kiesler and was subsequently invited to be his assistant at the Manhattan School of Music, a position he held for two years. Off the podium, Elliot Moore has a keen interest in languages, is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and is an award-winning cellist, who has performed in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States.
April 29, 2017 – Fairy Tales and Dances
Brian Dowdy, conductor
A native of Richmond, VA, Brian Dowdy is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Mississippi Valley Orchestra. He is also a James Sample Fellow, co-director of Campus Orchestras, and Summer Orchestra conductor at the University of Minnesota and Principal Conductor of Twin Cities Fringe Opera. From the pit, Dowdy has recently led productions of Don Giovanni, Hänsel und Gretel, Susannah, and Le tragédie de Carmen, and this Fall he will lead a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw for University of Minnesota Opera Theater. Dowdy’s educational activities have included private lessons, chamber music coaching, early childhood music, orchestra clinics, educational concerts, and lectures.
Dowdy studied at Oberlin and the San Francisco Conservatory and is now completing his doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota. His principal mentors have included Erin Freeman, Daniel Myssyk, Kathy Salztman Romey, and Mark Russell Smith. Dowdy currently resides in Minneapolis with his wife Susan and their son Luca. Outside of his musical activities, he enjoys practicing Aikido, cycling, singing karaoke, and rooting for the Twins.
Brian Dowdy, conductor
A native of Richmond, VA, Brian Dowdy is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Mississippi Valley Orchestra. He is also a James Sample Fellow, co-director of Campus Orchestras, and Summer Orchestra conductor at the University of Minnesota and Principal Conductor of Twin Cities Fringe Opera. From the pit, Dowdy has recently led productions of Don Giovanni, Hänsel und Gretel, Susannah, and Le tragédie de Carmen, and this Fall he will lead a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw for University of Minnesota Opera Theater. Dowdy’s educational activities have included private lessons, chamber music coaching, early childhood music, orchestra clinics, educational concerts, and lectures.
Dowdy studied at Oberlin and the San Francisco Conservatory and is now completing his doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota. His principal mentors have included Erin Freeman, Daniel Myssyk, Kathy Salztman Romey, and Mark Russell Smith. Dowdy currently resides in Minneapolis with his wife Susan and their son Luca. Outside of his musical activities, he enjoys practicing Aikido, cycling, singing karaoke, and rooting for the Twins.
St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra
The mission of the St. Cloud Symphony
Orchestra is to present high quality performances of music and educational
outreach activities to Central Minnesota, to encourage participation by local
and area musicians and to further the understanding and appreciation of music.
Classics for Kids 2017
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