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KYLE PICKETT is recognized as one of America’s most exciting and charismatic young conductors as well as an acclaimed orchestra builder.
Following his doctoral studies at the Peabody Conservatory with the renowned conducting teacher Frederik Prausnitz, Kyle Pickett was appointed Music Director by both the Redding and Chico symphony orchestras in Northern California. Within a year of these appointments, he spearheaded the merger of the two ensembles into the North State Symphony, creating a single professional orchestra that bridges two communities and ensures the future of symphonic music in Northern California. Now in its seventh season, this orchestra plays a full season of concerts in three cities, sells out nearly every performance and ends each season with a balanced budget.
Kyle Pickett’s talents, energy and impressive results also extend to his work with another orchestra, Alaska’s Juneau Symphony. In six seasons as Music Director, he has increased the complement of the orchestra, raised the artistic standard, double the audience, tripled the budget, instituted a popular pre-concert “Conversation with the Conductor” series and established an annual summer Pops concert. He has also created a symphonic chorus, collaborated with local opera companies and instituted live radio broadcasts and webcasts of the Sunday matinee performances. Dr. Pickett’s leadership in fundraising has lead to annual budget surpluses of more than 15% of the operating budgets.
Highlights of Kyle Pickett’s current season include the West Coast premieres of Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra, written for Jon Manasse and presented by both the North State and Juneau symphonies. He also leads the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra in holiday performances of The Nutcracker with The Montana Ballet Company.
A native of California, Kyle Pickett holds a Bachelor’s degree in music from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in choral conducting from the California State University at Chico. His Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting was conferred by the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Dr. Picket is also an accomplished flutist, having studied with Frances Blaisdell and Robert Willoughby. He also trained in voice with Wayne Connor and Judith Bettina.
| "Dr. Pickett is truly amazing, having conducted success after success. He is gifted in many ways - in his positive, professional bearing, and, musically, in his fine sense of drama, a sense revealed in his controlled tempos, his dynamic shifts from louds to softs and back again, his ability to delineate and reveal individual orchestra sections so the listener can follow the music, and his use and support of many fine soloists." CHICO NEWS AND REVIEW |
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9/24/2009 (11am) NORTH STATE SYMPHONY |
