Let it never be said that a degree in PG doesn't provide a world of opportunities (of course, Dr. Roberts was also a music major...)
October 22, 2008
For Immediate Release
Jeremy Briggs Roberts to Guest Conduct
Washington Idaho Symphony
Leavenworth, WA-Jeremy Briggs Roberts, Artist in Residence at Icicle Creek Music
Center and Music Director and Conductor of the Icicle Creek Youth Symphony and
Summer Symphony, will lead the Washington Idaho Symphony as guest conductor in a pair of subscription concerts on November 1st at the Domey Gladish Auditorium in
Pullman, Washington, at 8:00 PM, and on November 2nd at Lewiston High School in
Lewiston, Idaho, at 3:00 PM. The exciting program of popular classics will include
Maurice Ravel's beautifully sensual Mother Goose Suite, a suite from Igor Stravinsky's groundbreaking ballet, The Firebird, and Ludwig van Beethoven's monumental and timeless Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67.
Dr. Briggs Roberts, prizewinner at the 2006 Vendôme Academy of Orchestral Conducting
in Paris and recent competitor in the Ninth Cadaqués International Conducting Competition in Barcelona, Spain, has conducted such ensembles as the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra, Parnü Linnaorkester (Estonia), Moscow Symphony Orchestra, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Thüringen Philharmonie, among others. Previously Associate Conductor of the Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin and Music Director of the University of Washington Contemporary Ensemble, Baroque Ensemble, and Opera, his stage credits include productions of Britten's Turn of the Screw, Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Der Schauspieldirektor, and Le Nozze de Figaro, Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, Ravel's L'enfant et les Sortilèges,Salieri's Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole, and Smetana's Bartered Bride. His principal teachers include Peter Erös, Janos Fürst, Jorma Panula, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Gianluigi Gelmetti, and John Nelson.
The Washington Idaho Symphony, providing professional orchestral concerts to the
Palouse area of Washington State and to the nearby Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston,
Washington areas, was founded in 1972, received non-profit status in 1974, and has
grown into a regional cultural asset. The Symphony's more than 70 instrumentalists
are primarily resident music faculty, professional free-lance musicians, and graduate
students of Washington State University (Pullman, WA) and the University of Idaho
(Moscow, ID).
For ticket information, please call the Washington Idaho Symphony at (509) 332-3408,
or visit them online at www.washingtonidahosymphony.org
