Resumé

Present Positions:

Music Director     Spokane Symphony     (since Summer 2004)
 
Music Director     Stamford Symphony     (since Summer 2005)
 

Previous Positions:

Artistic Director/   Richmond Symphony Young Performers Program/Richmond
Symphony Youth Orchestra
   
Conductor  
  (2001-2004)
 
Associate Conductor   RichmondSymphony   (2001-2004)

Resident Conductor   American Symphony Orchestra   (1997-2004)
 
Principal Conductor   New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra   (1999-2001)
 
Music Director   Norwalk Youth Symphony   (1998-2001)
 
Music Director   Orchestre International de Paris (France)    (1993-1995)
 
Assistant Conductor   Radio France   (1995)
 
Resident Conductor   American Russian Young Artists Orchestra   (1999-2004)
 
Assistant Conductor   Hartt Symphony Orchestra   (1996)
 
Guest Faculty   C.W. Post Music Festival   (2000-2001)
 
Visiting Assistant Professor   Bard College   (1999-2001)
 
Guest conducting:
 
Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile
Bard Festival Orchestra (2008)
Jerusalem Symphony
Radio Philharmonic of Slovenia
Bard Festival Chamber Orchestra (New York)
Hallesche Philharmonic (Germany)
Jenaer Philharmoniker (Germany)
Williamsburg Symphonia
Landessinfonieorchester Gotha (Germany)
Nouvel Ensemble du Conservatoire Supérieure de Musique de Paris
Pecs Philharmonic (Hungary)
Prism Chamber Orchestra (New York)
Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (Ithaca, NY)
Thüringer Kammerorchester (Germany)
Varna Philharmonic (Bulgaria)


Degrees:

Kapellmeister-Diplom; Hochschule für Musik Weimar (Germany)
Medaille d'or in Orchestra Conducting; Conservatoire National de Region Rueil-Malmaison, Paris (France)
Certificat de Direction d'orchestre; Conservatoire Superieur de Musique de Paris (France)
Graduate Professional Degree in Orchestra Conducting; Hartt School of Music, CT (U.S.A.)

Awards:

Scholarship of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation
Scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Scholarship of the French Ministry of Culture
Winner of the National Conducting Competition of the DAAD 1996
Karl Boehm Scholarship of the Hartt School of Music
2007 "Communicator of the Year" award from the Public Relations Society of America Spokane Chapter

Languages:

Fluent in German, English and French


 
 
Conductor Eckart Preu
eckartp@gmail.com
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