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Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra – holder of the endowed Robert Reid Topping Chair – Robert Spano conducts numerous concerts each season on the main Classical Series, performs the annual concert in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., and participates in a variety of other musical and outreach activities. His most recent recording is the Berlioz Requiem with the ASO and Chorus, which received a 2005 Grammy award for Best Choral Performance. This follows a CD of new orchestral works by Jennifer Higdon, and “Rainbow Body” , with pieces by Barber, Copland, Higdon, and Theofanidis. Future disks include world-premiere recordings of choral works by David Del Tredici and Christopher Theofanidis.

Mr. Spano is recognized internationally as one of the brightest and most imaginative conductors of his generation. Through his innovative programming, he has enriched and expanded the ASO’s repertoire. He has conducted nearly every major North American orchestra, including the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra. He has appeared with the opera companies of Chicago, Houston, Seattle, and Santa Fe. After eight years as Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, he left it at a new level of international prominence.

Among Mr. Spano’s exciting concerts with the Atlanta Symphony this season are Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar and the acclaimed Pasión según San Marcos, the Verdi Requiem in Atlanta and at Carnegie Hall with the ASO Chorus, the first ASO performances of Kullervo by Sibelius (also to be recorded for Telarc), and concerts at the Ojai Festival in California with the ASO Chamber Chorus. His other performances of interest include Naïve and Sentimental Music by John Adams with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the world premiere of John Harbison’s Milosz Songs with Dawn Upshaw and the New York Philharmonic, and concerts abroad with the BBC Scottish Symphony, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (France), Berlin Radio Symphony, and Czech Philharmonic.

An accomplished pianist, Mr. Spano performs chamber music with many of his colleagues from the Atlanta Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and Oberlin Conservatory. He has appeared with musicians from the ASO at Spivey Hall, Morehouse College, and Georgia State University as part of ASO Connect!, a chamber-music initiative of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

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