Dr. Leslie B. Dunner
Sergio A. Mims forwards this release:
"Dr. Dunner has an extraordinary professional conducting and teaching
career," said Kedrik Merwin, Director of Music at Interlochen Center
for the Arts. "He had an inspiring rehearsal with our orchestra, and the
enthusiastic response and support from our music students helped to
confirm and reinforce his selection, as did his interest and commitment
to collaboration with all of the arts divisions at Interlochen."
Dr. Dunner's appointment marks the most recent in a series of major
investments in the music program at Interlochen Center for the Arts,
which will also fund the opening of a new 65,000-square-foot music
building in the spring of 2019.
"The appointment of Dr. Dunner represents another important step
forward for our music program. We are dedicated to being the leading
destination for aspiring, motivated young musicians and artists and
bringing on Dr. Dunner reinforces this commitment."
Dr. Dunner comes to Interlochen from Chicago, where he has been Music
Director of the South Shore Opera Company since 2014. He has also
served as Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet and the symphony
orchestras of Annapolis, Dearborn, and Nova Scotia. He spent eleven
seasons at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), first as Resident, then
Associate, and finally as Assistant Conductor, while serving
concurrently as Music Director of the DSO's youth orchestra, the Detroit
Symphony Civic Orchestra. Besides holding principal conducting
positions at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Harlem Festival Orchestra, and
Louisville Ballet, he undertook a season as Interim Music Director of
the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Dr. Dunner's guest engagements with major orchestras throughout the
world include two years with the Chicago Symphony and five as Cover
Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, where he assisted during a
four-week European tour. He has appeared with such distinguished
ensembles as the Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Cleveland
Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra,
San Francisco Symphony, and Seattle Symphony, as well as orchestras in
Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ukraine, Russia, and South
Africa. An avid ballet conductor, Dr. Dunner has taken the podiums of
the American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Michigan Opera
Theatre, Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and
South African Ballet Theatre, among others.
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