Robert Moody

Guest Artist

Robert Moody is music director for the Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Symphony and Portland (Maine) Symphony orchestras, artistic director for Arizona Musicfest, and a frequent guest conductor with orchestras across the United States. He was associate and then resident conductor of the Phoenix Symphony from 1998 to 2006. In 2009 he completed a ten-year tenure as head of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic's “Discovery” concert series. Guest conducting appearances have included the symphony orchestras of Houston, Indianapolis, Detroit, Seattle, Memphis, Fort Worth, Virginia, San Antonio, Buffalo, Charleston, Naples, Anchorage, and others. Summer appearances have included the Santa Fe Opera, Spoleto, Brevard Music Center, Eastern, PortOpera, and Skaneateles music festivals. Moody has conducted many of the world's top classical and pop artists in concert, including Van Cliburn, Celine Dion, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Doc Severinsen, Chris Thile, and Andre Watts. A champion of new music, Moody has played an instrumental role in the commissioning and première performances of several important new works for orchestra, including works by James DeMars (Sabar) and Mason Bates (Free Variations for Orchestra, Ode, Rusty Air in Carolina, and a new work to be premièred at Arizona Musicfest in 2011). Moody's work can be heard on three CDs: two collaborations with the Canadian Brass (Bach and Legends) and Canyon Records' Fourth World with R. Carlos Nakai. Moody has a bachelor's degree in church music from Furman University and a master of music degree in conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Donald Neuen.

At the 2010 OBF

The Bernstein Beat
Bernstein on Broadway

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