John Malveaux: AtlantaSymphony.org: Joseph Young is Assistant Conductor & Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra Music Director

Joseph Young

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

Conductor Joseph Young named assistant conductor to Atlanta Symphony http://www.atlantasymphony.org/About/AssistantConductor.aspx

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John Malveaux

Atlanta Symphony

Joseph Young

Assistant Conductor & Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra Music Director

Joseph Young has been named Assistant Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), effective June 1, 2014. In this position, he will assist with the artistic leadership of the Orchestra, and will serve as the primary conductor for the ASO’s education and community concerts. Mr. Young will also assume the role of Music Director of the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra in the 2014-15 season.

Prior to joining the ASO, Mr. Young was Resident Conductor of the Phoenix Symphony, and also spent a season as Assistant Conductor and a League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellow with the Buffalo Philharmonic.

In 2007, Mr. Young made his professional debut as the first recipient of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO)-Peabody Institute Conducting Fellowship, and he worked with the BSO through 2009. His recent conducting engagements include the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Symphony Orchestra, and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música.

Mr. Young’s other professional accolades include being named a semi-finalist in the 2013 Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition and being featured in the League of American Orchestras's prestigious Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview. Additionally, he was the first recipient of the Sir Georg Solti Foundation Career Grant for young conductors. He has furthered his conducting studies at the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival, the 2010 Jorma Panula International Master class in Porto, Portugal, and at the Tanglewood Music Center.

Mr. Young received a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of South Carolina in 2004 and completed his graduate studies in conducting with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar at the Peabody Conservatory in 2009.