Visiting Conductors — 2009-10 Season

Stuart Chafetz is music director and conductor of the Maui Pops Orchestra and regularly guest-conducts some of the leading orchestras in the country, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra and others. Known for his innovative and exciting classical, pops and family concerts, Chafetz is responsible for the first live symphonic radio broadcasts on Hawaii Public Radio featuring the Maui Symphony. He was featured as a 2004 and 2005 Emerging Artist in Symphony magazine.

Stuart Chafetz conducts the Around the World with Arthur Fiedler II performance on September 19 and the Opera’s Greatest Hits performance on October 17, 2009.  He also conducts the Family Fare No. 2: Pictures at an Exhibition performance on May 23 and the Star Spangled Spectacular! performances on May 27-29, 2010.

 James Cochran is the founder and director of the 70-voice Philharmonic Center Chorale, as well as resident organist of the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and director of the Philharmonic Youth Chorale. He has performed as an organ recitalist in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Mexico.

Kelly Corcoran is assistant conductor of the Nashville Symphony and serves as the primary conductor for the Nashville Symphony’s educational programs. Corcoran has conducted orchestras throughout the Midwest and the East Coast, including performances with the Milwaukee Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra.

Corcoran conducts the Family Fare Celebrate America! performance on October 4, 2009.

Berklee-trained arranger and conductor Brent Havens is the arranger and guest conductor for four symphonic rock programs: The Music of Led Zeppelin, The Music of the Doors, The Music of Pink Floyd and The Music of the Eagles. He has written music for orchestras, feature films and television.

Havens conducts the program The Music of Led Zeppelin on November 18, 2009.

Michael Krajewski is principal pops conductor of the Houston, New Mexico and Jacksonville orchestras. He also served in that position with the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra from 1994-2005. Krajewski has earned a local following for his pops concerts with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra.

Michael Krajewski conducts the Pops No. 1 Let's Dance performances on January 12-17, 2010.

Juan Francisco La Manna is principal conductor for Miami City Ballet. Maestro La Manna is also orchestra director and a member of the piano faculty at the State University of New York in Oswego. Prior to his appointment at S.U.N.Y., La Manna lived in the Kansas City area, where he was conductor for the State Ballet of Missouri and directed for the late Rudolf Nureyev. La Manna is artistic director of the Oswego Opera Theater, and has conducted orchestras in New York, Colorado, Florida and abroad.

Juan Francisco La Manna conducts the Miami City Ballet performances on January 19-20 and March 16-17, 2010, and George Balanchine’s the Nutcracker on November 28-29, 2009.

Andrew Lane is resident and principal pops conductor of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra. His pops concerts have featured Branford Marsalis, Deborah Gibson, Peter Schickele, Arturo Sandoval, Doc Severinsen and many others. Maestro Lane is also pops conductor of the Florida West Coast Symphony (Sarasota) and has guest-conducted many other orchestras.

Andrew Lane conducts A Swinging Benny Goodman Tribute on April 22, 2010.

Stuart Malina, music director and conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra since 2000, won a Tony Award for his orchestration — with Billy Joel — of the musical Movin’ Out. Maestro Malina has conducted numerous operas and guest-conducted many of the top orchestras in the country. He is also a concert pianist who has performed throughout the Eastern United States and in the Netherlands and Russia. Maestro Malina made his Carnegie Hall debut in February of 2007, conducting the New York Pops in an all-Gershwin tribute including Rhapsody in Blue, which he conducted from the keyboard.

Stuart Malina conducts the Holiday Pops performances on December 15-19, 2009.

Robert Moody is music director of the Portland (Maine) Symphony and also serves as music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony and artistic director of Arizona Musicfest. From 1998 to 2006, Maestro Moody was associate, then resident, conductor of the Phoenix Symphony. He has worked with such esteemed artists as Itzhak Perlman, Van Cliburn, Midori, Amy Grant and The Manhattan Transfer.

Moody conducts the Reaching Out program Beethoven’s Seventh on January 28-29, 2010.

Carlos Miguel Prieto holds four music directorships with orchestras in his native Mexico and in the United States – Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico (National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico), Mexico’s most important orchestra; Orquesta Mineria; the Louisiana Philharmonic; and the Huntsville Symphony. He has guest-conducted some of the leading North American orchestras as well as orchestras throughout Europe, Russia, Israel and Latin America.

Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Classical No. 4 Beauty and Destiny performances on February 4-7, 2010.