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Artist Profiles
Murry Sidlin has displayed great imagination in bringing classical music to a wider audience. As veteran conductor, educator, and speaker, he has devised Illuminations, concert dramas that engage the concertgoer by presenting music in a dramatic historical context. Dean of the School of Music at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., he is in his twelfth season as artistic director of the Cascade Festival in Bend, Oregon. In his twenty-ninth season at the Aspen Music Festival and School, he is associate director of the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, developed with music director David Zinman. In Israel he will conduct his production of Defiant Requiem, Verdi at Terezin, and he will conduct his thirteenth consecutive National Symphony Orchestra New Year's Eve concert. Koch International has recorded his arrangement of Copland's The Tender Land; his recording of Piazzolla's opera Maria de Buenos Aires was released last September. Mr. Sidlin was assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony under Sergiu Comissiona; Antal Dorati appointed him resident conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra for four seasons. He served as music director of the New Haven and Long Beach symphonies and Tulsa Philharmonic. Last season he made his debut with the Juilliard Orchestra and presents a debut with the Bucharest Philharmonic this coming season. He has guest-conducted many orchestras in the U.S., Canada, and abroad, including those of Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Minnesota, San Diego, Utah, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, the Boston Pops, Atlanta, and numerous others. He studied with Leon Barzin and Sergiu Celibidache.
The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus was organized by Jessamine E. Long in 1937 as the Buffalo Schola Cantorum. She was succeeded in 1945 by Cameron Baird who guided the group to prominence during its developing years. Under Mr. Baird's baton, the Chorus became established as the premier choral ensemble in Western New York. In 1992, the Chorus changed its name to Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus to reflect its close association with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. The Chorus, an independent non-profit organization with more than one hundred auditioned voices, is comprised of skilled and committed singers who continually develop and pursue its tradition of excellence. They continue to appear at various locations throughout Western New York including Artpark, Albright-KnoxArtGallery, Buffalo Museum of Science, Our Lady of Victory Basilica, and the Chautauqua Institution.
