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Lawrence Golan is currently the Resident Conductor of
The Phoenix Symphony. In that capacity, he conducts on each of the
symphony’s major series including Classics, Pops, Favorites, Family and
Education. This season, he is conducting a total of 65 concerts with The
Phoenix Symphony. Golan is also Music Director & Conductor of Boulder
Baroque, the Boulder Bach Festival, and the Portland Ballet Company. In
addition, he continues to guest conduct professional orchestras, opera and
ballet companies in the United States and around the world. Mr. Golan has
conducted in over 20 U.S. states and 10 countries. Recent international
performances include concerts with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech
Republic, the Harrogate Symphony Orchestra in England, and a tour of Italy
with the Orchestra Citta’ di Grosseto.
Golan is known for his inspired performances,
imaginative programming, passion for developing new audiences, and
engaging off-podium interactions. He is also recognized for his expertise
in the complete spectrum of musical styles and periods.
A staunch supporter of music education, Golan is the
conductor of the Phoenix Youth Symphony and Director of Orchestral Studies
at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, where he teaches
graduate conducting majors and conducts the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and
Opera Theatre. As a result of his accomplishments with the LSO, Golan has
won five consecutive Outstanding Merit Awards from the University of
Denver, three consecutive ASCAP awards for Adventurous Programming of
Contemporary Music, and in 2003, the Downbeat Magazine Award for
“Best College Symphony Orchestra”.
A native of Chicago, Lawrence Golan holds degrees from
the Indiana University School of Music (B.M. and M.M.) and the New England
Conservatory of Music (D.M.A.). In addition, he studied at all of the
major conducting festivals including Aspen and Tanglewood, where in 1999
he was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship. The long list
of distinguished conductors with whom Mr. Golan studied includes Robert
Spano, Jorma Panula, David Zinman, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, Leonard
Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Murry Sidlin, and Harold Farberman.
Mr. Golan’s most recent recordings are with the
Moravian Philharmonic on the Albany Records label. Funky Little
Crustaceans features orchestral music by Colorado composer William
Hill and Visions, Dreams & Memories is a collection of works
for Native American flute and orchestra with James Pellerite, former
Principal Flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and now one of the world’s
premiere Native American flutists. Golan’s recording of Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 and Tchaikovsky 6.1 by Peter Boyer, a work that
Golan commissioned and premiered, will be released in 2008. In addition,
Mr. Golan has several commercially available recordings as a violinist.
Lawrence Golan’s edition and reduced orchestration of
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is published by Spurwink River
Publishing and is used by orchestras and ballet companies across North
America. His most recent publication is a scholarly-performing edition of
the solo violin works of J. S. Bach that includes a handbook on Baroque
Performance Practice published by Mel Bay Publications.
Lawrence and his wife Cecilia, a hospitality industry
executive from Buenos Aires, Argentina, have been married since 2003.
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