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Timothy
Muffitt
July
24, 2008
Now in his ninth
season as Music Director and Conductor of the Baton Rouge Symphony
and his second with the Lansing Symphony, Timothy Muffitt continues
to appear with other prominent orchestras around the country.
Recent seasons have included return engagements with the San
Francisco Symphony and the Long Beach Symphony along with his
debut at The Hollywood Bowl. Other recent engagements have taken
Muffitt to the Houston, Phoenix, Edmonton, and Spokane Symphonies,
Columbus Ohio’s Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, the Buffalo
Philharmonic, the Virginia Symphony, the Grant Park Music Festival
Orchestra in Chicago and the Harrisburg (PA) Symphony among others.
Along with continued
growth in artistic excellence, Muffitt’s work has been marked
by innovative, imaginative programming. A strong proponent of
community arts education, Muffitt has been very active in the
venues of radio and lecture, presenting arts-enrichment programs
through a variety of formats for diverse audiences.
Formerly Associate
Conductor with the Austin Symphony, Muffitt was also Artistic
Director of the Louisiana Philharmonic's Casual Classics Series
in New Orleans. It was for his work in that position, that Mr.
Muffitt was awarded a Certificate of Meritorious Service from
the American Federation of Musicians.
Prominent performers
and composers with whom Mr. Muffitt has worked include Yo Yo
Ma, Renee Fleming, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Andre Watts, Alicia de
Larrocha, Pinchas Zukerman, Van Cliburn, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak
Perlman, and composers John Cage, Joseph Schwantner, Ellen Taffe
Zwilich, John Harbison, Joan Tower and Bernard Rands among others.
This season will includes collaborations with Denyce Graves,
Yundi Li and Nadia Solerno-Sonnenberg.
In addition
to his work with professional orchestras, Mr. Muffitt is also
Music Director of the Chautauqua Institution's Music School Festival
Orchestra, one of the country's premiere orchestral training
ensembles.
Born in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, Mr. Muffitt began his musical studies at age seven
on the piano and later added viola and trumpet. He received his
conducting training at the Eastman School of Music, studying
with David Effron, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts
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