About the music director

David Hoose

David Hoose, now in his third year as Music Director of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, earns high acclaim for his vivid and throught- provoking performances of the broadest range of music, orchestral and choral alike. He is currently Music Director of two other distinguished musical organizations, the Cantata Singers & Ensemble, and Collage New Music. In addition, he is a Professor of Music at Boston University, where he is chairman of the conducting department and Conductor of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra.

His fourteen year leadership of the Cantata singers & Ensemble, a professional fourty-voice chorus and orchestra, has had a leading influence on the cultural life of Boston. Hoose and the organization are 1995 recipients of the ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming, have commissioned major works for chorus and orchestra (one of which, John Harbison's The Flight Into Egypt, won the Pulitzer Prize), have premiered many other works, have recorded for CRI, Nonesuch, New World and Koch Recordings, and have established an unsurpassed standard of performance of music from four centuries.

In his capacity as Music Director of Collage New Music, a chamber ensemble drawn principally from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he leads performances form the broadest spectrum of this century's music. Collage has recorded on the CRI, Nonesuch, Sonory, GunMar, Northeastern and Desto labels.

Mr. Hoose has appeared as guest conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Chamber Palyers, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Handel & Haydn Society, the June Opera Festival of New Jersey, and at the Tanglewood Music Center. He has also conducted the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, American-Soviet Festival Orchestra, Cayuga (NY) Chamber Orchestra, Nashua (NH) Sumphony Orchestra and the New Hamphshire Music Festival Orchestra. For many years, he was guest conductor with Boston's Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Emmanuel Music, conducting both Bach cantatas and other orchestral concerts. In additon, he was Music Dirctor of Peter Sellars's production of Peter Maxwell Davies' opera, The Lighthouse, in its American Premiere. For six years, Hoose was Conductor and Music Director of the Young Artists' Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Center.

Formerly a horn player, Mr. Hoose was a founding member of the acclaimed Emmanuel Wind Quintet, winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Award for Chamber Music. He also served as principal horm of the New Hamphshire Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, and Handel & Haydn Society, and performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Smithsonian Chamber Players.

Mr. Hoose was trained as a composer at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Brandies University, where he studied with Richard Hoffmann, Arthur Berger and Harold Shapero. His horn studies were with Barry Tuckwell, james Singer and Richard Mackey, and his principal training as conductor was as a Conduction Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was a student of Gustav Meier, worked with Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein, and was the recipient of the Dmitri Mitropoulos Award.

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