Stellar guest conductors announced for 2021-22 season
The Oakville Symphony is thrilled to announce the names of the four guest conductors for the main concert series of the 2021-2022 season, to be held at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts.
Each guest conductor is a short-listed candidate for the position of Oakville Symphony Music Director. Maestro Roberto De Clara will complete his immensely successful 24-year tenure with the Oakville Symphony in June 2021.
Martin MacDonald:
Martin MacDonald will conduct the Oakville Symphony on November 6 & 7, 2021.
Martin MacDonald has served as Resident Conductor and Associate Conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia. He has guest-conducted extensively across Canada, and made recordings for the CBC.
He has been awarded both the Heinz Unger Award and the Jean-Marie Beaudet Award for orchestral conducting.
Martin MacDonald holds a M.Mus. in Orchestral Conducting from McGill University and a B.Mus. in Cello from Memorial University, Newfoundland. www.martinmacdonald.ca
Pratik Gandhi:
Pratik Gandhi, Music Director of the Rouge River Winds and Resident Conductor of the Toy Piano Composers Ensemble, will conduct the orchestra on February 5 & 6, 2022.
Pratik Gandhi served as Assistant Conductor at Symphony on the Bay (now Burlington Symphony Orchestra), and has guest-conducted other orchestras throughout Ontario. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Concert Band Division at MusicFest Canada, and is a three-time winner of the Ontario Band Association’s Conducting Excellence Award. Pratik Gandhi holds a M.Mus. in Conducting and a B.Mus. in Music Education from Western University, and is pursuing a Doctorate degree at York University. www.pratikgandhi.ca
Lorenzo Guggenheim:
Lorenzo Guggenheim, Founder and Music Director of the University of Toronto Campus Philharmonic Orchestra, will conduct on April 2 & 3, 202
Lorenzo Guggenheim has experience guest-conducting and assisting performances of symphonic repertoire, opera and new music with orchestras in Canada, the United States, Argentina and Chile.
He is about to complete a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Toronto where he was awarded a full scholarship and teaching position.
Lorenzo Guggenheim holds a M.Mus. in Orchestra Conducting from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a bachelor’s from Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires, both in Orchestral Conducting. www.lorenzoguggenheim.com
Geneviève Leclair:
Geneviève Leclair, Assistant Professor (Conducting) at Berklee College of Music in Boston, will conduct the orchestra on May 7 & 8, 2022.
Her conducting experience includes many years with the Boston Ballet and as a guest with The National Academy Orchestra of Canada, National Ballet of Canada and the Guelph Symphony Orchestra.
Geneviève Leclair was awarded the 2017 American Prize in Conducting (college/university), and received the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Award in Orchestral Conducting in 2010.
She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from Boston University, a M.Mus. and B.Mus. in Flute Performance from Université de Montréal. www.genevieveleclair.com