David Wroe
Conductor
Mr. Wroe is Music Director of the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Principal Conductor at
Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice in New York, and was a former Music Director of Opera at Florham as well as
a regular conductor at New York City Opera. In 2017 he assumes the position of Principal Conductor of L’Ensemble de Region
Normandie in France. In 2014 he led the Brown University Symphony Orchestra (Rhode Island) as its Interim Music Director.
Mr. Wroe had a long association with New York City Opera, leading numerous productions, and performing and assisting in over
100 presentations. Orchestras conducted include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish
National Orchestra, L’Orchestre National de Lille, Symphony Nova Scotia, New Jersey Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony,
New York City Ballet, L’Ensemble de Paris, Neue Brandenberg Symphony, L’Orchestra Lamoureux with cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch,
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Das Loh-Orchester Sondershausen, Philharmonische Orchester der Stadt Heidelberg, Delaware, Harrisburg,
Huntsville, De Moines Symphony, and numerous tours of Western Austria with Vorarlberg Symphony and at the Bregenz Frühlings Festival.
Maestro Wroe is a preferred conductor in Asia, having directed the Pusan Philharmonic, Macau Symphony, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Guiyang,
Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Nanjing and Taiwan National Symphony. Maestro Wroe was Music Director of Music on the Mountain:
Garrett Lakes Arts Summer Festival in Maryland from 2000 – 2006, and Music Director and Founder of the Kansas City Camerata from 1990-1996.
2007 marked Maestro Wroe's recording debuts with L'Orchestre National de Lille
on the TransArt label with pianist Bruno Fontaine, and broadcast recordings, through
Austrian Broadcasting Authority (ORF), with the Vorarlberg Symphony.
In addition to his residency at New York City Opera, from 1997-2002 Maestro Wroe served
as Principal Guest Conductor at the City Opera of Heidelberg, conducting much of the major operatic
repertoire there. He has served as the Principal Conductor at Opera Delaware, directed the summer
'Opera Under the Stars' series at the 7000 seater Garden State Arts Center in NJ, and initiated the
Opera in Concert series with the NJ Festival Orchestra to critical review. He opened the newly formed
Fresno International Grand Opera for their production of La Bohème, and has served as Judge for the
Metropolitan Opera National Council, New Jersey Regional Auditions.
Maestro Wroe devotes considerable time to the musical education of young people,
leading the Taipei Symphony Orchestra Summer Youth Festival, Principal Conductor
at N.Y. University Symphony Orchestra (2008-2011), and Director or Orchestras
at Montclair State University (2000-2005). From 1993-95, he conducted in the
Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerts, and has taught and given master-classes
at New England Conservatory, Harvard University, Brown University, Rutgers University
and University of Alabama. He has served as Judge for the Music Assistance Fund
administered by the League of American Orchestras, and was the Chairman of the Jury of the
New Jersey MTA State Concerto Competition.
Early in his career he was Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
leading the orchestra in Tanglewood and in Boston's famed Symphony Hall,
in addition to touring Europe with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players.
Awards are numerous, including the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship at Tanglewood,
a citation in United States Congress for community commitment, and finalist in the
1st Bernstein International Conducting Competition. David attended
Lancing College, has a BMus from Manchester University (England),
a MM from Northwestern (Chicago), and was a student of Gustav Meier and Victor Yamposky.
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