Next week, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra hosts our third Music Director candidate this season, Mei-Ann Chen.  One of the country’s most promising young female conductors, she is currently Assistant Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.  Prior to that, she was Assistant Conductor of Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.  Mei-Ann will make her MSO debut [...]

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s exciting search for a new music director continues as Thomas Wilkins makes his first appearance before Memphis audiences on Friday, November 6, 2009 at the Buckman Performing and Fine Arts Center at 8pm.  We want everyone to get to know a little more about the man who could be Memphis’ next [...]

Music director candidate Alastair Willis is in Memphis this week to appear as guest conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s performance on Saturday, October 17 at the Cannon Center. This American-born conductor spent most of his childhood in England but returned to study in the States. He has since conducted orchestras across the country and [...]