Conductor/Concert Innovator/Educator
Founder and President of The Defiant Requiem Foundation
Creator of Illuminations Concerts
CONDUCTOR/CREATOR/CONCERT INNOVATOR
- Defiant Requiem: a concert/drama about the performance of the Verdi Requiem by prisoners of the Terezin Concentration Camp
- Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezin Composer. A concert/drama which explores composing at Terezin by fifteen prisoner-composers, making the irrational act of music creativity essential and life affirming.
- Illuminations: a series of innovative concerts designed to attract new audiences and expand the traditional role of the symphony orchestra. Each program was written, conducted and designed by Mr. Sidlin
RESIDENT CONDUCTOR
- National Symphony Orchestra
- Oregon Symphony
- Gavleborg Orkester of Sweden, Principal Guest Conductor
ARTIST/TEACHER
- Aspen Music Festival: Resident Artist/Teacher and Associate Director of the American Academy of Conducting (33 summers)
MUSIC DIRECTOR
- New Haven Symphony
- Long Beach Symphony
- Tulsa Philharmonic
- Connecticut Ballet
- Cascade Festival of Music, Bend, Oregon
KENNEDY CENTER
- Conductor for 18 consecutive New Year's Eve Galas with the National Symphony.
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
GUEST CONDUCTOR
- St. Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Utah Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Oklahoma City Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, Berlin Konzerthausorchester, the George Enescu Philharmonic of Bucharest, Czech National Symphony, Prague Symphony, MVD Orchestra of Budapest, Iceland Symphony, RTVE Madrid, I Solisti Veneti, Honolulu Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Quebec Philharmique, Boston Pops, San Antonio Symphony and Opera, Lindberg Orchestra of Holland
EDUCATOR
- Former Dean, School of Music at Catholic University of America
- Currently, Professor of Conducting
- Director of Orchestral and Conducting Studies, University of Minnesota.
- Named Educator of the Year by the National Association of Independent Schools of Music - 1997
RECORDINGS
- The Tender Land Suite, Copland (The Tender Land, suite from the opera, arranged and conducted by Murry Sidlin). Composed by Aaron Copland, performed by Third Angle New Music Ensemble
- Appalachian Spring, Concert Suite. Composed by Aaron Copland with Third Angle New Music Ensemble. Conducted by Murry Sidlin
- Maria De Buenos Aires, Composed by Astor Piazzolla. Conducted by Murry Sidlin with the Cascade Festival of Music Chamber Orchestra
CONTACT:
Email: msidlin@gmail.com
Management:
KAYLOR MANAGEMENT INC.
Hugh Kaylor, President
tel: 212/977-6779
hughkaylor@msn.com