KIESLER, KENNETH Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
A native of New York, KENNETH KIESlER studied at the Peabody Conservatory
in Baltimore, the Aspen Music School in Colorado, and the Accademia Musicale
Chigiana in Siena, Italy. At twenty-three he was the youngest conductor of a
full production in the history of the prestigious Indiana University Opera Theater.
He was accepted into the Leonard Bernstein American Conductors Program; won
the silver medal at the 1986 Stokowski Competition at Avery Fisher Hail; received
the Helen M. Thompson Award (in 1988); and in 1990 was one of four American
conductors selected to conduct the Ensemble Intercontemporain in sessions with
Pierre Boulez during the Carnegie Hall Centenary. Kiesler was music director
of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra for twenty years, becoming conductor laureate
at the end of the 1999-2000 season, and is now music director of the New Hampshire
Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared as guest conductor with the National Symphony
Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony, and he has conducted the Jerusalem and Haifa
symphony orchestras in Israel; the Osaka Philharmonic in Japan; the New Symphony
in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Pusan Symphony in Korea. He has conducted many operas,
and has collaborated with such prominent instrumentalists and singers as Peter
Serkin, Lorin Hollander, Joshua Bell, Sylvia McNair, William Warfield, Byron
Janis, Sharon Isbin, and David Shifrin. Since 1995 he has held the positions
of professor of conducting and director of university orchestras at the University
of Michigan School of Music. Kiesier is also the founder and director of the
Conductors Retreat at Medomak, Maine.
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