- Hugh Keelan
Hugh Keelan was born in
Kingston upon Thames ,England and has served as the musical director and conductor of prominent American orchestras. He is a pianist and violinist. He is also an arranger of music.Keelan served as conductor of the
Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic for fifteen years, and music director of theErie Philharmonic from 2000 to 2006. He was preceded at Erie byPeter Bay , who served from 1996 to 2000, and was replaced in 2007 by Daniel Meyer of thePittsburgh Symphony Orchestra .As of 2006, Keelan was conductor of the Blanche Moyse Chorale at the Brattleboro Music Center inBrattleboro, Vermont .He has been guest conductor of orchestras around the world.
He studied music at
Cambridge University and conducting at bothIndiana University andMannes College . He was tutored in New York under Vladimir Kin, who was influenced by the Leningrad school ofEvgeny Mravinsky and Nikolai Rabinovich.He worked at the Juilliard American Opera Center at the
Juilliard School in New York while studying with Mr. Kin.References
*cite paper | url=http://www.pricerubin.com/classical/dossiers/keelandoss.pdf | title=Hugh Keelan Conductor | version= | format=.PDF | publisher=Price Rubin & Partners | author= | date=2007 | accessdate= 2007-09-15
*cite paper | url=http://www.bmcvt.org/programs/documents/06-07MSHandbookViewerVersion.pdf | title=The Music School | version= | format=.PDF | publisher=Brattleboro Music Center | author= | date=2006 | accessdate= 2007-09-15External links
* [http://www.hughkeelan.com/ Hugh Keelan official website]
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