The Delaware Symphony Orchestra (DSO) has chosen Brian Raphael Nabors as its 2025 A.I. duPont Composer’s Award recipient. The A. I. duPont Composer’s Award was instituted in 1985 by the DSO to recognize a distinguished living American composer or conductor who has made a significant contribution in the field of contemporary classical music. Nabors, 34, is the assistant professor of …
DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – April 28, 2024
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Symphony readies for a season of music director tryouts
Audiences attending the Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s 2024-25 season will have a say in who is chosen as its new music director. The symphony’s 119th season will showcase the four finalists for the job: Mélisse Brunet, Filippo Ciabatti, Michelle DiRusso, and Taichi Fukumura, Each will conduct a classical concert, and audience members will be surveyed afterward about how they thought the …
4 finalists named for Delaware Symphony’s music director job
The Delaware Symphony Orchestra has invited four finalists to conduct the orchestra next year before it chooses a new music director from them in spring 2025. Up for consideration are Mélisse Brunet, Filippo Ciabatti, Michelle Di Russo and Taichi Fukumura. The search, which began in July 2023, drew 150 applications from around the world. A 13-member search committee, including community …
DSO guest conductor chose a life of the baton in high school
The guest conductor who will lead the Delaware Symphony Orchestra Friday plunged into music after a grammar school test showed he had an aptitude for it. A native of Durham, North Carolina, André Raphel said the schools then gave students a test to determine if they had a musical aptitude and an aptitude for playing a musical instrument. “It was …
DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – August 6, 2023
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Delaware Symphony starts search for new music director
The Delaware Symphony Orchestra has announced the search for its next music director, expected to begin work in the 2025-26 season. The process started with forming a 13-member search committee for the person who will succeed David Amado, who served as the symphony’s music director and conductor for 20 years before stepping aside and becoming music director laureate in the …