He also assisted on a production of Verdi Otello at the Metropolitan Opera (NY), conducted by Valery Gergiev, and at The English National Opera, where he was Assistant Conductor for Kurt Weill Street Scene. He conducted for the opera companies of Santa Fe, Brevard Music Center, and Hilton Head Opera. Festival conducting includes Santa Fe Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Brevard Music Center, Sewanee Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Bowdoin International Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival.Įqually at home in the opera pit, Moody began his career as apprentice conductor for the Landestheater Opera in Linz, Austria. Worth, San Antonio, Buffalo, Columbus, Louisville, Minnesota, and Slovenian Philharmonic. Prior Guest Conducting has included Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the orchestras of Toronto, Houston, Indianapolis, Detroit, Seattle, Ft. Other guest conducting this season includes the orchestras of Bogota, Colombia Aachen, Germany Sacramento, California and a return to the Sewanee Music Festival in the mountains of Tennessee. Moody recently guest conducted the three major orchestras of South Africa in Durban, Johannesburg, and Cape Town he was immediately invited to return for more concerts in the Summer of 2020.
Prior to that he served as Resident Conductor for the Phoenix Symphony, Chorus Master for Santa Fe Opera, and Associate Conductor for the Evansville (IN) Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2018 Moody completed eleven-years as Music Director for the Portland Symphony Orchestra (Maine), thirteen-years as Music Director of the Winston-Salem Symphony (NC). Players hail from the top orchestras in the world, including the Vienna and New York Philharmonics, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Memphis, and San Francisco Symphonies, and the San Francisco and Metropolitan Opera Orchestras. Moody is also Music Director of the lauded Arizona Musicfest, boasting one of the finest festival orchestras in North America. Expanded and adventurous programming, the MSO’s first commercial recording in over three decades, and a new $25-million-dollar endowment have highlighted the past two seasons. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)Ĭlick here to buy tickets this and future shows.Ģ021/2022 marks Maestro Robert Moody’s fifth season as Music Director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. You may use this time to briefly get up from your seats. JEAN SIBELIUS Concerto in d-minor for Violin and Orchestra, op. Robert Moody, conductor | Frank Huang, violin
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