Peter Bay Explained

Peter Bay is Music Director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra.^[1]

Life

He graduated from the University of Maryland and the Peabody Institute.^[2]

He has previously been Music Director and Conductor of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Oregon,^[3] Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Breckenridge Music Festival, and has held conducting posts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra,^[4] the Richmond Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has been guest conductor for over seventy other orchestras around the United States.

Awards

• 1980 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition
• 1987 Leopold Stokowski Competition sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra^[5]

External links

• "Peter Bay’s lecture brings Mendelsson’s compositions to life", Lake Travis View, October 21, 2009, Charles McClure

Notes and References

1. Web site: Music Director / Conductor.
2. Web site: Music Director / Conductor.
3. Web site: Meet the Conductor | Britt Festivals . 2010-03-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509190058/http://www.brittfest.org/meettheconductor . 2008-05-09 .
4. Web site: Peter Bay - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra . 2010-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160617102807/http://www.rpo.org/s_7/s_32/p_358/Peter_Bay/ . 2016-06-17 . dead .
5. Web site: Music Director / Conductor.