MUSIC DIRECTOR

Music Director Avlana Eisenberg has conducted orchestras throughout the United States and in France, Germany, Austria, Scotland, Spain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Her extensive experience spans the orchestral and operatic repertoire as well as ballet, operetta, and musical theater productions. Eisenberg’s recent discography includes the 2022 Naxos recording of world premieres by William Grant Still with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, praised as “stunning” by the New York Times and selected as Album of the Week by SiriusXM, and a Sibelius-Barber-Ben-Haim album with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV, hailed as “persuasive” and “finely balanced” by Gramophone Magazine. Upcoming releases include an all-Hovhaness album with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists and works by Ravel and Ben-Haim with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. A frequent guest conductor, she has performed with ensembles at the Edinburgh Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Festival at Sandpoint, the Lancaster Festival, and the Eastern Music Festival, and in such venues as the Mozarteum, the Hungarian Radio Hall, and the Granada Theater.

Eisenberg received a Fulbright Fellowship to assist Music Director James Conlon at the Paris National Opera, and she was named one of Glamour magazine’s “Top Ten College Women of the Year.”  While an undergraduate at Yale University, she founded and directed the Silliman Symphony and was honored with Yale’s V. Browne Irish Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts.  Eisenberg holds a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute.