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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,
Connecticut, Maryland, and Virgina. 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), and the Bohuslav
Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra
(Zlin, 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 Hochschule 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,
California State University
Orchestra, Assistant Conductor, Pacific Palisades Symphony (CA),
and Assistant Conductor, Greenwich
Village Orchestra (NY). 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.
Maestro Huff
has also organized and presented
concerts of contemporary 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"). In the fall of
2010 he conducts the orchestral
premiere of his Four Cowboy Songs.
Maestro
Huff loves espresso,
bicycling,
photography,
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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