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A native of Washington, DC, GLENN QUADER is rapidly gaining national recognition as a dynamic and versatile conductor.
In 2005, Glenn Quader was appointed Music Director of Virginia’s Piedmont Symphony Orchestra. His tenure, marked by innovative and enthusiastically received programming, has included three world and two United States premieres. The current season includes a sixth premiere - and the orchestra’s first commission, when composer/guitarist Marcus Wolf performs "Extensions" Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra. Under Mr. Quader’s leadership, the organization has increased its paid core membership, added to the number of performances and enjoyed a steady rise in season subscriptions.
Glenn Quader was promoted in 2007 from Assistant to Associate Conductor of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, the Washington, DC area’s largest and most established professional regional orchestra. He is intensely involved with the orchestra’s S.C.O.R.E. outreach program, which takes members of the symphony into area schools for side-by-side master classes and concert performances. In 2005, he co-created the Classical Kids Club, and secured major funding from Wachovia, Boeing and Verizon, so that this multi-media program can be presented annually in over twenty Fairfax County Public Schools. Mr. Quader initiated the FSO Educational Partnerships program between the symphony and the metropolitan area youth orchestras, providing workshops led by symphony musicians and master classes with guest soloists. In 2006, he launched a video-podcast series which has been twice featured by the American Symphony Orchestra League in Symphony magazine, as well as at the "Innovations Forum Roundtable" at its 2007 annual conference. Subsequently, this series garnered the FSO recognition as one of the Top Three Finalists for the 2007 NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award, with its $20,000 guaranteed minimum prize.
Additional professional appointments of Glenn Quader include Assistant Conductor of the Frederick Symphony Orchestra (a position held since 2003) and Conductor for the American Center for Puccini Studies (since 2006). Formerly, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Columbia Orchestra, Music Director/Conductor of the Potomac Valley Youth Orchestra and Music Director/Conductor of the Broward Symphony Orchestra.
Glenn Quader’s international guest conducting includes programs with the Czech Republic’s Czech Virtuosi and Czech Moravian Chamber Orchestra, Hungary’s Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra and Romania’s Bacau and Brasov philharmonic orchestras. In the United States, he has led the White Noise Chamber Players, ensemble-in-residence with The New World Symphony.
Glenn Quader studied at the Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University and the universities of Indiana, Illinois and Miami, and holds a conducting diploma, awarded by Sicily’s Catania International Conducting Institute. His principal conducting teachers include Gustav Meier, Ovidiu Balan and James Brooks-Bruzzese, while intensive workshops were undertaken with Marin Alsop, Jorma Panula, James Litton, Larry Rachleff and David Loebel.
Equally adept in the classical, jazz and popular idioms, Glenn Quader appears extensively as a conductor, performer and session musician in the United States and Europe, placing him in consistently high demand both on concert stages and in recording studios.
| "Flag Day was the right time to hear Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America, a multimedia work in which music, actors and projected photos combine to distill the immigrant experience. Glenn Quader led the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in a deeply moving performance whose totality transcended its music." THE WASHINGTON POST "The score’s virtues were revealed with authority by conductor Glenn Quader, who led the performance. With its shifting meters and moods, [Christopher Theofanidis’] Rainbow Body isn’t easy to bring off. Yet Quader brought out the luminous sonorities that have made the piece so irresistible in its brief history." THE BALTIMORE SUN "Quader nailed the natural ebbs and flows of the piece [Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol], effectively leading his group through the rousing dance theme and pulling from the ensemble a performance that rose above mere note-playing. Furthermore, movement endings were crisp and punctuated; such effects cannot be achieved without strong and precise conducting. The performance possessed a strong sense of livelihood from the well articulated beginning to the whirlwind coda, over which Quader exercised firm control, never once losing the ensemble to overdone dynamics or a runaway tempo." THE FAUQUIER TIMES-MIRROR "The evening began with Joan Tower’s Made in America; led by conductor Glenn Quader, The FSO gave it a focused and emotive performance." THE WASHINGTON POST |
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10/19/2008 (3pm) PIEDMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA |
