David Hagy Conducts Youth Symphony at Retreat |
Former OAYO Music Director, David Hagy, rehearsed Youth Symphony during the 2009 Youth Symphony retreat at Camp Carol Joy Holling. David Hagy is in his twentieth season as Music Director of the Salisbury Symphony and thirteenth season as Orchestra Director at Wake Forest University where he also teaches. He is also in his sixth season as the new Music Director of the Winston-Salem Youth Symphony. Annually he also music-directs some theater productions for Wake Forest University, the Piedmont Players and Catawba College. Mr. Hagy has conducted the Indianapolis Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, Norwalk Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, and the Greensboro Symphony. He has been music director of the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Western Massachusetts Youth Orchestras and the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras. He has music-directed more than forty theatrical productions ranging from opera to music theater and has appeared as a narrator and singer with several orchestras throughout North Carolina as well as the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Omaha Symphony. The Salisbury Symphony and the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras will both be one of the orchestras participating in the Ford Made in America program, a consortium of Fifty-eight orchestras, including at least one in each of the 50 United States, who have jointly commissioned a new work entitled Chasing Light… by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Joseph Schwantner. Mr. Hagy was able to offer Youth Symphony his insights on this piece during the retreat. |