GREENWICH — One of many world’s prime feminine conductors will likely be holding the baton because the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra takes the stage for its subsequent live performance.
Conductor Mélisse Brunet started her profession in France and this fall was named director of orchestral research on the College of Iowa’s College of Music. She is also the brand new music director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic in Wilkes-Barre.
She will likely be on the podium for the GSO for its third live performance of the season — set for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8, and three p.m. Jan. 9 — on the Greenwich Excessive College Performing Arts Heart.
The live performance program contains “Fanfare for the Unusual Girl” by Joan Tower, “Symphonie Espanole” by Lalo and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 7 with William Hagen as visitor soloist on the violin. Her web site titles the live performance, “Hear Boldly: Tower, Lalo, Dvořák.”
In an uncommon twist, Hagen, an American performer, is enjoying music by a French composer whereas a French conductor is main an American orchestra, the GSO stated.
Brunet is one 5 candidates for the job as music director of the GSO, and the one girl within the operating. Every of the 5 candidates is taking a flip as conductor through the 2021-22 season.
The Retired Males’s Affiliation of Greenwich may even host a dialogue with Brunet at 11 a.m. Jan. 5 on the First Presbyterian Church in Greenwich. The discuss may even be livestreamed by way of Zoom; go to greenwichrma.org/ for info.
About Brunet
An educator, linguist and conductor of symphonic music, opera and musical theater, Brunet is a protégée of Pierre Boulez. Brunet is likely one of the 14 finalists chosen from greater than 200 candidates for the second version of the Worldwide Competitors La Maestra in March 2022 in Paris.
She was one among six conductors chosen for the 2018 Bruno Walter Nationwide Conductor Preview, chosen for his or her “expertise, expertise, management potential and dedication to a profession in service to American orchestras.” In 2017 she was one among six conductors chosen for the worldwide Hart Institute for Ladies Conductors on the Dallas Opera, chosen out of 161 candidates from 33 international locations.
This spring, she is going to conduct Gilbert and Sullivan’s “HMS Pinafore” on the Coralville Heart for Performing Arts in Coralville, Iowa.
A local of Paris, Brunet started her research on the cello, and likewise realized to play the trumpet, French horn and piano. She holds six diplomas from the Paris Conservatory, a bachelor in music from the Université la Sorbonne, knowledgeable research diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a doctorate in conducting from the College of Michigan.
Additionally, she has studied French, English, German and Italian lyric diction, and speaks English, French, Italian, Chinese language and German. To be taught extra about Mélisse Brunet, go to melissebrunet.com.
Different finalists
Brunet is among the many 5 finalists to switch David Gilbert, who joined the GSO as conductor and musical director in 1975 and led the group till his retirement in early 2020.
His departure after greater than 45 years set off a search that concerned 176 candidates for music director.
The opposite 4 finalists are: David Lockington, conductor laureate of the Grand Rapids Symphony in Michigan; Martin Makjut, music director of the Rogue Valley Symphony in Oregon; Stuart Malina, music director and conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania; and Ransom Wilson, music director of the Redlands Symphony in California.
Every finalist will lead one of many GSO’s 5 weekend live shows and likewise spend time assembly with the group and rehearsing with the musicians.
Tickets to the live shows subsequent month are $40 for adults and $10 for college kids. For info, go to greenwichsymphony.org or name 203-869-2664. Orchestra members are totally vaccinated towards COVID-19, and viewers members should present proof of vaccination.
