Kenneth Schermerhorn
Kenneth Schermerhorn is one of today’s most distinguished and versatile conductors, equally at ease with symphonic repertoire, opera, and ballet. Music Director of the Nashville Symphony since 1983, he has brought the Orchestra to new levels of artistic achievement and public support.
Maestro Schermerhorn’s distinguished career has led him to guest engagements with orchestras in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North and South America. In the United States, he has conducted the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the San Francisco Orchestra, among other distinguished ensembles.
Schermerhorn has served as the music director of the Milwaukee Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, and the American Ballet Theatre, a company that he conducted virtually all over the world. He premiered Mikhail Baryshnikov’s
Nutcracker at the Kennedy Center in 1977. His CBS recording of
The Nutcracker with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of London has served as the soundtrack for the network’s annual telecast of the Tchaikovsky ballet.
A frequent and highly sought after opera conductor, Maestro Schermerhorn has conducted the opera companies of San Francisco, San Diego, Edmonton, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Milwaukee, Nashville, and the Metropolitan Opera’s Centennial in 1983, broadcast worldwide on PBS.
Following studies with Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood, where he won the coveted Sergey Koussevitzky Prize, he became Bernstein’s assistant conductor at the New York Philharmonic.
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