BIOGRAPHY

SILAS NATHANIEL HUFF has conducted outstanding orchestral, choral, opera, ballet, and new music performances for more than a dozen years. In the United States Maestro Huff has conducted youth, university, and professional ensembles in California, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. Internationally, he has conducted the L’Orchestre de L’Institut Musical de Provence-Aubagne (Aix-en-Provence, France), the Republic of Adegya National Philharmonic Orchestra (Maikop, Russia), the New Symphony Orchestra (Sofia, Bulgaria), the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra (Zlin, Czech Republic), and the Vejvanovský Conservatory Orchestra (Kroměříž, Czech Republic). Maestro Huff currently holds the music directorships of the Astoria Symphony (NYC) and the Round Rock Symphony (TX), conducts the Moscow Ballet's USA east coast tour performances, and is the Associate Producer of Opera at the Manhattan School of Music. 

A native Texan, Maestro Huff studied classical guitar at Texas State University before moving to Los Angeles where he earned a Master of Music degree in music theory and composition under Ian Krouse at UCLA. While there, Maestro Huff studied conducting with Maestro Donald Neuen, and upon graduation became a full-time student of orchestral conducting under Dr. Richard Rintoul at California State University in Long Beach. Mr. Huff also spent one year in residence at the Trossingen Hochschüle für Musik (southwest Germany), six months studying privately in Berlin, and two summers at L'Institut Musical Provence-Aubagne (Aix-en-Provence, France). Maestro Huff  has attended dozens of workshops led by some of the world’s finest maestros, including Maestros Kirk Trevor, Gustav Meier, Mariusz Smolij, Rossen Milanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Carl St. Clair, Harold Farberman, Barbara Yahr, Chris Wilkins, and others

In 2001, Maestro Huff was named Conductor of the Year by the California State University system, and he was a semi-finalist in the 2004 Maikop International Conducting Competition (Russia). Mr. Huff’s past conducting positions include Assistant Conductor of the California State University Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Palisades Symphony (CA), Assistant Conductor of the Greenwich Village Orchestra (NY), and Music Director of the Southwest German Youth Orchestra (Trossingen, Germany). An avid dance conductor, Maestro Huff has conducted performance with the Fullerton College Ballet Theater (CA), Long Island City Ballet (NYC), Octavia Cup Dance Theatre (NYC), Moscow Ballet, and the Martha Graham Ensemble.

A new music enthusiast, Maestro Huff has also organized and presented concerts of new music in California, Texas, New York, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy, and continues to compose and conduct new music. In 2007, he conducted the premiere of his Five Episodes for Cello and Orchestra, and 2009 saw the premiere of his first ballet, Chun Zhi Ge ("Spring Song Festival").

Maestro Huff loves European espresso, bicycling, and his novelist wife Taylor Morris. They share their time between their adopted home of New York City, their native home of Texas, and wherever they happen to be at the moment.

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