Celebrating his inaugural season as Music Director of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra and continuing for a ninth season as Music Director of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, WILLIAM INTRILIGATOR is widely known as a consummate musician, an inspiring teacher and a successful orchestra builder.

Since William Intriligator’s appointment in 2000, the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra has experienced a remarkable period of artistic growth and achievement, adding staged opera and ballet productions, large-scale music festivals, family concerts, a chamber series and new education concerts and concepts. The orchestra continues to present both local and world premieres, and, reflecting his strong commitment to area outreach, has developed numerous new partnerships with the community at large.

William Intriligator has led performances with distinguished orchestras throughout the United States, including those of Honolulu, Houston, Minnesota, Richmond, Saint Paul, Savannah and Tulsa.

Formerly Apprentice Conductor and Staff Conductor of The Minnesota Orchestra, William Intriligator led that orchestra in youth concerts and new music readings, while assisting with subscription concert and national tour covering duties. He was also a regular guest conductor of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 1995 to 2000, leading the ensemble in classical, new music, education and regional tour concerts, and assisting in the development of their CONNECT! music education program. While in Minnesota, his other posts included Music Director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul JCC Symphony and Kenwood Chamber Orchestra, as well as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Opera.

William Intriligator graduated with highest honors in music from Princeton University. He received the first diploma in conducting from its Program in Music Performance, and was awarded the Isidore & Helen Sacks Memorial Prize as the most outstanding musician in his class.  While at Princeton, he studied with composer Claudio Spies, as well as with conductors Michael Pratt and Michael Charry. Subsequently, Mr. Intriligator earned his masters and doctoral degrees in conducting at the University of Minnesota, studying with Murry Sidlin, Keith Clark, William Eddins and Mark Russell Smith. His doctoral degree was the first ever awarded in the Graduate-Apprentice Conducting Program; his thesis explored the influence of early German Romantic philosophers and their beliefs on the orchestral works of Robert Schumann.  

William Intriligator’s principal conducting teacher was Charles Bruck, with whom he studied privately in Paris and at Maine’s Pierre Monteux School. Other teachers and mentors include Christian Thielemann and Michael Gielen, to whom he served as Apprentice Conductor of the Southwest German Radio Orchestra. He was invited twice as a Conducting Fellow to the Aspen Music Festival, where he worked with David Zinman, Murry Sidlin and Jorma Panula.

A native of Santa Monica, California, William Intriligator received numerous awards and accolades as an oboist before turning to conducting. He also studied piano and violin. Currently, he resides in Dubuque, Iowa, with his family.