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Camille Saint-Saens: Danse Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila
Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, first movement2009 All-State Festival
Meet our 2009 Conductors:
Band Conductor
Orchestra Conductor
Chorus Conductor
Robert Lehmann |
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Robert Lehmannis Associate Professor of Music and Director of String Studies and Orchestral Activities at the University of Southern Maine School of Music. In addition to his duties conducting the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra, he is on the Artist Faculty in Violin, Viola and Chamber Music. Now in his tenth season as Music Director of the North Shore Philharmonic, he was the orchestra and board of directors' unanimous choice to become the fourth Music Director of this 61 year-old institution. Dr. Lehmann is also Music Director of the highly acclaimed Portland Chamber Orchestra and first violinist of the Meliora Quartet. In 2008 he was invited to become the conductor of the White Mountain Bach Festival in New Hampshire.Prior to his appointment at USM he served as Music Director of the Mozart Society Orchestra at Harvard University, the Greater Boston Youth Symphonies Junior Repertory Orchestra the Empire State Youth Repertory Orchestra and the Rhode Island Youth Philharmonic. As a violinist he has performed with the Boston Philharmonic, the Eos Ensemble, Alea III, Pro Arte Orchestra, the Portland Symphony and as concertmaster of the PORTOpera. He has played with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, as well with the National Orchestral Institute and the National Repertory Orchestras. Dr. Lehmann was born and raised in Mexico City, attended the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica, at sixteen became concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra, and a year later joined the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional professionally. Dr. Lehmann studied with Warren Van Bronkhorst at the University of the Pacific, and with members of the Cleveland Quartet at the Eastman School of Music. While at Eastman he participated in the Cleveland Quartet Seminar and served as concertmaster of the Eastman Philharmonia, in summer residence at the Schlossfestspiele in Heidelberg, Germany. He received a doctorate in Violin Performance from Boston University in 2008. Dr. Lehmann has served on the faculties of Northeastern University, Atlantic Union College, the Eastern US Music Camp, and was a Conducting Fellow at The Conductorˆs Institute at Bard College and the Aspen Music Festival's American Academy of Conducting. Dr. Lehmann is in great demand as a conductor, violinist, teacher and clinician. He has conducted All-State Orchestras and festivals in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Hawaii and is President-elect of the Maine American String Teacher's Association. He has been a frequent guest conductor with the Portland Symphony and has conducted and concertized extensively throughout the US, Europe, Ukraine, Mexico and Puerto Rico. He is listed in the Marquis Who's Who in Music. Dr. Lehmann lives in Scarborough, ME with his wife Kimberly (a violist) and their two boys, Eric and Alex. |
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