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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
Active as a guest conductor, Kay George Roberts has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Louisiana Philharmonic, Nashville, and National Symphony Orchestras, among others. Dr. Roberts made a highly-acclaimed debut at the Lugano Festival with the Orchestra Svizzera Italiana. An advocate for new and overlooked music, she has been praised by critics for her "precision and passion" and for leading audiences "to make new discoveries." A champion of music education, she is a professor of music at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and director of a new string training program for elementary school students that fosters diversity in classical music. She is the founder and music director of the ensemble-in-residence, String Currents, which promotes American music. Dr. Roberts studied at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa and at the Bachakademie Stuttgart with John Eliot Gardiner. A graduate of Fisk University, Ms. Roberts is an accomplished violinist with master degrees in violin performance and orchestral conducting from Yale University. She is the first woman to earn the Doctor of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from Yale University where she studied with Otto-Werner Mueller.
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