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Cynthia
Woods,
Artistic
Director
Worcester Youth
Orchestras
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“Conducted by
Cynthia Woods,
the Zwillich was
dynamic and
immersing…”
exclaimed John
Galigour of the
Sun Valley News,
after witnessing
the Pacific
Coast premier of
Pulitzer Prize
winner Ellen
Taffe Zwillich’s
work Upbeat
with the Grande
Rhonde
Symphony.
A
violinist by
training, Ms.
Woods turned her
attention to the
podium in her
early twenties
and
opportunities
soon followed.
Her career has
taken her across
the country and
oversees,
performing with
groups such as
the Plevin
Philharmonic,
the Rocky
Mountain Chamber
Players, The
Transylvania
Symphony
Orchestra, the
Greater Newburgh
Symphony and the
Varna
Philharmonic.
Recent
accomplishments
include the
Boston premier
of Joan Tower’s
Concerto for
Violin with
Avery Fisher
Career Grant
winner Peter
Zazofsky and the
premier of a new
arrangement of
Alec Templeton’s
Pocket Size
Sonata by
Larry Wolfe of
the Boston
Symphony
Orchestra. Ms.
Woods has also
founded a new
Summer Pops
Concerts series
featuring the
Cambridge
Symphony
Orchestra hosted
by Harvard’s
Kennedy School
of Government in
the heart of
historical
Harvard Square,
along the
Charles River.
Her opera debut
was made in a
series of sold
out performances
of Bernstein’s
On the Town
at the Reinbeck
Center for the
Performing Arts,
New York. An
advocate of
contemporary
American music,
she has worked
with some of
today’s most
significant
composers
including Joan
Tower, John
Corigliano and
George Crumb and
was chosen to be
a Fellow at the
prestigious
Atlantic Center
for the Arts.
In addition to
her experience
as a guest
conductor Ms.
Woods has been
the Music
Director for the
Boston Community
Chamber
Orchestra and
the Artistic
Director for the
Worcester Youth
Orchestras-the
partnered youth
orchestra of the
Boston Symphony
Orchestra. She
was appointed
the Music
Director of the
Cambridge
Symphony
Orchestra in
2006.
Kathleen
Berger,
Conductor
Worcester Youth
Concert
Orchestra
Kathleen Berger
graduated Summa
Cum Laude with
Distinction from
Boston
University with
a B.M. in
Woodwind
Performance
(Flute) and
Music Education
and graduated
with a Masters
in Creative Arts
Education from
Fitchburg State
College. She
has studied
flute with many
of the world’s
most notable
players: Doriot
Dwyer, Julius
Baker, Marianne
Gedigian, Marya
Martin, Carol
Wincenc,
Alexander
Murray, Jeffrey
Khaner, Gary
Schocker, Julia
Bogorad, and
Adam Kuenzel.
Since BU, Ms.
Berger has
worked in a
variety of roles
as teacher,
director,
conductor,
student, and
flutist. Ms.
Berger has
worked as a
general music
and instrumental
music teacher in
the Shrewsbury
Public Schools
and an
Instrumental
Director at
Lincoln-Sudbury High
School. She has
led a
student-run,
pre-concert
lecture series,
participated in
a number of
music festivals,
and organized
Benefit Concerts
and Recital
Hours. As a
conductor, Ms.
Berger has
attended the
American String
Teachers’
Association’s
International
Workshop in
Stravanger,
Norway and the
Conductors
Workshop of
America at the
University of
Iowa.
Currently, Ms.
Berger conducts
the Colleges of
the Fenway
Orchestra in
Boston and
teaches flute in
the Wellesley
Public Schools. |
