The Saint Cloud Symphony Orchestra
2017-2018 Concert Season
A SEASON OF STORIES
2017-2018 Concert Season
A SEASON OF STORIES
Upcoming Events
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Lemonade Concert
Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 7:30 pm Atwood Center Courtyard, St. Cloud State University Dr. Brian Dowdy, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor FREE PROGRAM National Anthem Selections from West Side Story | Bernstein "Saturday Night Waltz" and "Hoe Down" from Rodeo | Copland Danzon No. 2 | Marquez Thunder and Lightning Polka | Strauss Armed Forces Salute | Lowden Stars and Stripes Forever | Sousa |
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Congratulations!!
Young Performer Competition Scholarship Recipients John Byun, violin [Scholarship – School Age Non Piano] TianYi Zhang, trombone [Scholarship – College Non Piano] Kate Landsteiner, piano [Scholarship – School Age Piano] Stephen Kuebelbeck, piano [Grand Prize Winner, Scholarship - College Piano] For information about the scholarship winners go to YPC Link Many thanks to Young Performer Competition sponsors Beste & Associates |
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Meet the Conductor
Dr. Brian Edward Dowdy is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra and the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to symphonic performances, Dowdy has recently conducted productions of Don Giovanni, Hänsel und Gretel, Susannah, Le tragédie de Carmen and The Rape of Lucretia, and he has led performances with the University of Minnesota Campus Singers, Chorus Polaris and the Sanctuary choir of Richmond, VA. In 2012 he joined Sanctuary in recording Music for Compline, an album of plainchant and renaissance motets, and in 2014 he directed and sang in Pesher Compline at the Walker Art Center with members of Cantus. As an advocate for new music, Dowdy has led premier performances for the Switchboard and Hot Air Music Festivals in San Francisco, and in 2013 he conducted the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble in “Project Beck,” a night of 20 premiers inspired by Beck Hansen’s Song Reader. Dowdystudied at Oberlin College, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of Minnesota. He holds degrees in conducting, classical guitar performance, English literature and East Asian Studies.
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