Guest Conductors for Orchestra

Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Miguel Harth-Bedoya will make his conducting debut with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra on April 25, 2025 in Stude Concert Hall.

www.miguelharth-bedoya.com

We’ve just announced our new season! The Shepherd School of Music has hosted numerous internationally recognized guest conductors over the past two seasons, offering both our students and audience members unique opportunities to learn from and engage with new voices. You can view the complete list of programs for our full 2024–25 season by clicking HERE.

Robert Spano

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, September 29, 2023 at 7:30 pm 
Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:30 pm

• Barber: Symphony No. 1 in One Movement
• Knoxville Summer of 1915 (Michelle Bradley, soprano)
• Jennifer Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra

Hans Graf

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra 
Friday, October 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm

• Scriabin: Poème de l'extase (Poem of Ecstasy)
• Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor (Angela Ryu, violin)
• Stravinsky: The Firebird (1910)

William Eddins

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, December 1, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor" (Isaac Foreman, piano)
• Brahms: Symphony No. 2

Lidiya Yankovskaya

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra 
Friday, February 2, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

• Jessie Montgomery: Hymn for Everyone
• Elgar: Cello Concerto (Maximus Gurath, cello)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra 
Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

• Jimmy López Bellido: Fiesta!
• Daniel Leibovic: The Tones of Bangle
• Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Giancarlo Guerrero

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra 
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

• Caroline Shaw: The Observatory 
• Copland: Clarinet Concerto (Najee Greenlee, clarinet)
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Andrew Grams

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

• Bartók: The Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica"

Joshua Gersen

Preparing the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra for performances in spring 2023. 

Cristian Măcelaru

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

• Gabriela Frank: Concertino Cusqueño (2012)
• Debussy: Jeux
• Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Patrick Summers

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, April 21, 2023 at 7:30 pm.

• Strauss: Salome’s Dance
• Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn
• Strauss: Ein Heldenleben