Our Conductor
Robert Hart Baker, YSO Music Director and Conductor
In 2009-10, Robert Hart Baker marks his 27th year as Music Director and Conductor of the York Symphony Orchestra. He also serves as director of the York Symphony Chorus and Chamber Singers. He is the Music Director and Conductor of the St. Louis Philharmonic and the Harrisburg Choral Society. He is principal guest conductor with the Asheville Lyric Opera Company, and is conductor laureate of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina.
As a guest conductor he has appeared with many American orchestras, including Billings, Chattanooga, Cheyenne, Flagstaff, Harrisburg, Muskegon, Providence, Quincy, Roanoke and Radio City Music Hall to name but a few.
His recent international guest conducting engagements have been with the Regina Symphony in Canada, Orquestra do Norte in Porto, Portugal, the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Vratza, Bulgaria, the Tito Schipa Symphony Orchestra of Lecce, Italy, and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Toluca, Mexico.
He has appeared as an opera conductor with the Spoleto Festival, Brevard Music Center, Connecticut, and Cullowhee Festival opera companies. He served as an assistant conductor to Christian Badea and Gian Carlo Menotti for six summers in Italy. He has conducted the North Carolina Dance Theatre ballet company on three occasions.
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