Award-winning American conductor George Stelluto, a graduate of the West Virginia University School of Music, will visit the Creative Arts Center on Thursday (Nov. 20) to work with conducting students.
The visit is part of the “Alumni in Residence Series” in the College of Creative Arts. As resident conductor of the Juilliard School, music director of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Ravinia Festival, Stelluto has established himself as a versatile conductor comfortable in many styles and genres.
Stelluto is Juilliard’s only Artist Diploma recipient in conducting. He also holds two Master’s Degrees (Violin & Conducting) from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelor’s Degree in Violin from West Virginia University, summa cum laude. During his residency at the Creative Arts Center, Maestro Stelluto will work with undergraduate conducting students during a master class to be held at 9 a.m. in Room 200B. He will work with graduate conducting students at 10 a.m. The events are free and open to the public.
In 2012-2013, Stelluto won both the prestigious ASCAP Award and the Illinois Council of Orchestra’s “Orchestra of the Year Award” for the Peoria Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-2012 season of innovative programming and outreach. In 2011-2012, he made critically acclaimed debuts with the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra and the Nordwestduetsche Philharmonie in Germany.
Other guest appearances, throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America include The Juilliard Orchestra, Orquesta Filarm�nica del Ecuador, Ukrainian National Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Transylvania State Philharmonic (Romania), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Nevada Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, Alea III and Juilliard’s “Beyond the Machine” Festival and AXIOM Ensemble.
From 1998-2007, Stelluto was Music Director of the Las Vegas Music Festival. He is the founder of the Illinois New Music Festival, which debuted in 2010 and repeats once every several years with unifying themes relating musical expression and society. He has collaborated with solo artists such as Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn, Edgar Meyer, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Samuel Ramey; actors Kate Mulgrew and Isaac Mizrahi; and many young rising stars such as Veronika Eberle, Benjamin Moser, Anna Lee, Conrad Tao and Sirena Huang. His numerous contemporary premieres include works by Philippe Bodin, Virko Baley, Huang Ruo, Paul Desenne and Theodore Antoniou.
For more information, see Stelluto’s website: http://www.georgestelluto.com.
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