BIOGRAPHY

SILAS NATHANIEL HUFF has conducted outstanding orchestral, choral, and new music performances for over ten years. 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). In the United States he has conducted youth, university, and professional ensembles in California, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. A new music enthusiast, Mr. 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 2001, Mr. 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). In 2008, Mr. Huff will take the helm of the newly founded Round Rock Symphony (TX), and in 2009, Mr. Huff will debut as guest conductor with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (CO) and the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble (NYC), even as he continues in his positions as the Music Director of the Astoria Symphony (NYC), Conductor of the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble (NYC), and Manager of the Opera Department at the Manhattan School of Music. 

A native Texan, Mr. 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 the guidance of Ian Krouse at the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, Mr. Huff began studying 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) and two summers at L'Institut Musical Provence-Aubagne (Aix-en-Provence, France). Additionally, he studied privately in Berlin, has attended dozens of workshops, and has taken lessons with some of the world’s finest maestros, including Kirk Trevor, Gustav Meier, Mariusz Smolij, Rossen Milanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Carl St. Clair, Harold Farberman, Barbara Yahr, Chris Wilkins, and others.

Mr. 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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