UW Symphony with Mary Lynch, Seth Krimsky, Rachel Lee Priday, and Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University Symphony in Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante Op. 84, with faculty guests Mary Lynch, oboe, Seth Krimsky, bassoon, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello, and Rachel Lee Priday, violin. Guest conductor Michael Jinbo conducts the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Op. 74, B minor, “Pathétique.”

PROGRAM

Haydn: Sinfonia concertante, op.84, Hob.I:105, B-flat major 

Mary Lynch, oboe

Seth Krimsky, bassoon

Rachel Lee Priday, violin

Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, cello

David Alexander Rahbee, conductor

 

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6, op.74, B minor Pathétique

Michael Jinbo, guest conductor

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Artist Bios

Michael Jinbo, guest conductor

Michael Jinbo is the Music Director of the Pierre Monteux School and Music Festival, with whom he has enjoyed a long affiliation.  For 24 years, he has served as only the third music director in the 76‑year history of the school, following his mentor Charles Bruck and the school's founder, eminent French-American conductor Pierre Monteux.  Serving as the school's master teacher, he directs an orchestra comprised of musicians from around the world and teaches a class of 15‑20 conductors each summer.  Jinbo is also in his 30th season as Music Director and Conductor of the Nittany Valley Symphony.  For four seasons, Jinbo served as the Assistant Conductor of the North Carolina Symphony, a full-time professional orchestra with whom he performed 60-75 concerts each season, including classical, ballet, pops and educational programs.  He has performed with a wide range of artists, including pianist Garrick Ohlsson, violinist Kyoko Takezawa, prima ballerina assoluta Galina Mezentseva and the St. Petersburg Ballet of Russia, and the legendary Cab Calloway.

Jinbo received a B.A. in Music from The University of Chicago, concentrating in the areas of music history and musicology, and an M.M. in Conducting from the Northwestern University School of Music, where he was the winner of the Honors Conducting Competition and selected for induction in the national honorary music society Pi Kappa Lambda.  He received further conducting training at The Pierre Monteux School (Hancock, ME), the Herbert Blomstedt Institute (Loma Linda, CA), the Scotia Festival of Music (Halifax, Nova Scotia), and at workshops of the American Symphony Orchestra League and the Conductors Guild.  In 1991, Jinbo was selected by the Conductors Guild as a nominee for their biennial Robinson Conducting Award.

Michael Jinbo made his European debut in 1999, appearing as guest conductor with the Sinfonieorchester Basel in concerts in Switzerland and Germany.  He has also appeared as guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez in Mexico City and with the Quebec Festival of Youth Orchestras.  Other guest engagements have included programs with the Altoona Symphony, the Bangor Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, and the orchestra of the Longy School of Music in Boston.  In November 2016, Jinbo appeared as guest conductor in two concerts of the combined orchestras of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza in Monterrey, Mexico.  In December 2016, he appeared as conductor of the New York All-State Symphony Orchestra in Kodak Hall of the Eastman Theatre (Rochester, NY).

 Jinbo participated in the 2000 Annual Conference and 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Conductors Guild in New York City, where he served as guest speaker in a session entitled “The Education of Conductors.”  He has served twice as a member of the instrumental music panel of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.  Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Jinbo is also a violinist.  He has appeared as soloist with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, among others.