Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview: Roster of Past Participants
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Since 1995, the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, a program of the League of American Orchestras, has been the premier showcase for talented conductors in America. To date, 80 conductors have been featured through competitive selection, and more than 50 orchestras have engaged these conductors for various appointments as a direct result of the Preview.
Past participants have included Carlos Miguel Prieto, music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the YOA Orchestra of the Americas; Mei-Ann Chen, music director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Sinfonietta; Giancarlo Guerrero, music director of the Nashville Symphony; and Laura Jackson, music director of the Reno Philharmonic.
| 1995 Daniel Hege Mark Mandarano Alexander Platt Scott Speck Ya-Hui Wang Richard Westerfield Dorian Wilson | 1996 Zane Dalal Niel DePonte Grant Gershon Jeffrey Goldberg Steven Smith Markand Thakar Yaron Traub Lara Webber Peter Stafford Wilson | 1997 Robert Franz Delta David Gier Shinik Hahm Jung-Ho Pak Edward Polochick Lucas Richman Mariusz Smolij Susan Davenny Wyner |
1999 Susan Haig Karen Nixon Francisco Noya Brian Stone Alastair Willis Christopher Zimmerman | 2001 Stephen W. Alltop Giancarlo Guerrero Timothy J. Hankewich Jeffrey Pollock Carlos Miguel Prieto Andrews Sill | 2003 James Allen Anderson Mei-Ann Chen Daniel Meyer Leo Najar Scott O’Neil Byung-Hyun Rhee Mischa Santora Allen Tinkham |
2005 Dante Anzolini Darko Butorac Christopher Chen Jeffrey Domoto Shizuo Kuwahara Morihiko Nakahara Kenneth Raskin Peter Rubardt | 2007 David Charles Abell Mikhail Agrest Mikael Ayetisyan Andrew Constatine Kayoko Dan Paul Haas Jaime Morales-Matos Jean Phillipe-Tremblay | 2009 Alondra de la Parra Jeffrey Grogan Laura Jackson Kynan Johns Carolyn Kuan Ken Lam Jonathan McPhee Alexander Platt |
2011 Yaniv Dinur Christopher James Lees Marcelo Lehninger Sean Newhouse Robert Treviño Joseph Young | 2013 Joshua Gersen Keitaro Harada Gavriel Heine Vladimir Kulenovic Sameer Patel Benjamin Rous | 2016 Conner Gray Covington Roderick Cox Paul Ghun Kim Rebecca Miller Stefan Sanders |
2018 Ankush Kumar Bahl Mélisse Brunet Nadège Foofat Raúl Gómez-Rojas Lee Mills Lidiya Yankovskaya |
Banner: 2018 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview participant Ankush Kumar Bahl. Photo: Ronald Knapp
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