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Now in his fourth season as Music Director of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Hege is widely recognized as one of America's finest young conductors. He has earned critical acclaim for his fresh interpretations of standard repertoire and is recognized for his commitment to creative programming. His previous positions include Music Director of the Haddonfield Symphony (New Jersey), Associate Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony, Music Director of the Encore Chamber Orchestra in Chicago and Music Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, where he was twice honored by the American Symphony Orchestra League for innovative programming. In June 2001, he finished a five-year tenure with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where he held the titles of Assistant, Associate and Resident Conductor and led the orchestra in subscription, family and run-out concerts.
Recent guest conducting engagements include appearances with the Houston, Seattle, Oregon, Colorado and Charlotte symphonies, the Rochester Philharmonic, and Louisiana Philharmonic, and the Aspen Music Festival. He has also made two recordings: a disc with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Morgan State University Choir featuring works by Adolphus Hailstork, and his first CD with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra featuring works by Verdi, Barber, Debussy, Respighi and James Johnson.
Born in Colorado and raised in Idaho, Mr. Hege resides in Jamesville with his wife, violinist Katarina Oladottir Hege, and their daughters Arianna, and Anna Sophia.
A born risk-taker and a restless, imaginative virtuoso, Eliot Fisk has brought an entirely new dimension to classical guitar performance. His repertoire includes a large body of guitar music consisting of works written for him by composers such as Robert Beaser, Luciano Berio and George Rochberg as well as his own daring transcriptions of works of historical siginificance by Bach, D. Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Granados, Albeniz and others. He was voted Best Classical Guitarist in the 26th Annual Guitar Player Magazine Readers' Poll.
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A two-day residency in Geneva by the Orquesta La Moderna Tradición was underwritten by a major grant from the Williams Family Foundation with additional grants and in kind support fromNYSEG, Tops Friendly Markets, Wegmans, the Geneva Lakefront Ramada Inn, the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Dining Services, the Department of Dance at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and thecontributions of the supporters of Geneva Concerts. Thanks!
Olga Kern wasnamed a gold medalist of the Eleventh Van Cliburn International PianoCompetition on June 10, 2001, the first woman to have achieved this distinctionsince 1969. In addition to the medal, she was awarded two years ofinternational concert engagements and career management, a compact discrecording of her award-winning Cliburn Competition performances for the harmonia mundi label.
Born into a family of musicians, Ms. Kern began studying piano at the age of five.She is a laureate of several international competitions, including the Hamamatsu,Ciani, and China Competitions, and has toured throughout her native Russia,Europe, and the United States, as well as in Japan, South Africa, and SouthKorea. She has performed in many of the world's most important venues, includingthe Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Symphony Hall in Osaka, La Scala inMilan, and the Salle Cortot in Paris. The recipient of an honorary scholarshipfrom the President of Russia in 1996, she is a regular soloist with the MoscowState Symphony and has also appeared with the Moscow Philharmonic, RussianNational, China Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, Torino Symphony, andJohannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras. Asa result of her success at the Cliburn Competition, Ms. Kern will make herBoston Pops debut during the summer of 2001 and will tourthroughout the United States and Europe during the 2001-02 concert season.
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Jeff Tyzik has earned a reputation as one of America's foremost pops conductors.Tyzik is known for his innovative programming, creative arrangements and hiswonderful rapport with audiences of all ages. Recent engagements have included thesymphonies of Detroit, Saint Louis, Houston, Pittsburgh and his debut with theBoston Pops.
Tyzik has been the Principal Pops Conductor with the Rochester PhilharmonicOrchestra since 1993. In addition to his duties as Principal PopsConductor, Tyzik has created innovative programs for the RPO's educational series,"Casual Sunday Matinee" series and the community outreach "Around The Town"series. His creative programming and audience skills have attracted record-breakingattendance at RPO concerts. In addition, Tyzik is constantly engaged as a guestconductor throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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