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Sheldon also conducted the world premiere of Leslie Burrs' gospel opera Vanqui with Opera Columbus and the world premiere of Frank DiGiacomo's opera Beauty and the Beast with the Opera Theatre of Syracuse where he served as principal conductor. He also led the world premiere of compositions by Mark Volkert, winner of the Marin Symphony Composer Competition and Anthony Iannaconne, winner of the Lancaster Festival Composer Competition. The Lancaster Festival also commissioned new works by Gary William Friedman including Passages for Clarinet and Orchestra and the ballet Puss n' Boots. Sheldon also conducted the first complete recording of William Bolcom's Concerto for Clarinet with Richard Stolzman, clarinetist and the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, heard on the Marquis Classics CD, Ragomania. Ragomania CD review: "The performances offer examples of the top-notch playing that can be found around the U.S. at outdoor summer festivals...an upbeat program, engagingly performed, and unusually coherent". 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The Festival's annual composer symposia have featured residencies by William Bolcom, Leslie Burrs, Michael Daugherty, Gary William Friedman, Kirke Meachem, Rodion Shchedrin, Augusta Read Thomas and Joan Tower. Guest artists have included the Eroica Trio, the Kalichstein-Laredo- Robinson Trio, the Chicago Brass Quintet, the LancasterChorale, BalletMet dancers, Opera Columbus singers, Veronika String Quartet, Olga Kern, Jon Kimura Parker, Anton Kuerti, Dorothy Papadakos, Alexander Shtarkman, Zina Schiff and Richard Stoltzman. At right, Gary Sheldon conducting the Lancaster Festival Orchestra with Camille Miller, violinist and Wilkes Young Artist Fellow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63ff1e857fa52fe13b347f/f946c6e5-8d14-4e11-a3eb-6b974f913e51/IMG_9158.JPG Lancaster Festival - LANCASTER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA The Lancaster Festival Orchestra is comprised of 65 professional musicians from around the U.S. and abroad. The Orchestra's pops series at Ohio University in Lancaster has presented Aretha Franklin, Arturo Sandoval, Amy Grant, Sybarite 5, Vince Gill, Kansas, The Band Perry, Don Felder, The Three Tenors, Ben Vereen, Tony Randall, Kenny Loggins, Kathy Mattea, Roberta Flack, The Pointer Sisters, the Manhattan Transfer and Martina McBride. With over 50 events, concerts, art exhibitions and activities for children and families each summer - most offered free to the community - the Lancaster Festival has been recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the arts in central Ohio. In 2010, both Maestro Sheldon and the Lancaster Festival Orchestra won The American Prize in separate categories and were recognized by the awards committee for recorded performances of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony and the music of William Bolcom, "excellently prepared interpretively and very well executed", ranking the ensemble as "among the finest professional orchestras in the country" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63ff1e857fa52fe13b347f/3a53accc-1a30-41f1-bcb3-0b957cf2bbef/Turandot2.jpg Lancaster Festival - OPERA CLICK FOR DETAILS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63ff1e857fa52fe13b347f/ea134b4a-7395-46de-8072-8a7a0e022972/miami_butterfly.jpg Lancaster Festival - BALLET CLICK FOR DETAILS. https://www.gsheldon.com/ballet daily 0.75 2022-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63ff1e857fa52fe13b347f/897b843b-b792-41be-ae63-41dfe7c7d9a7/Nutcracker_photo.jpg Ballet - MIAMI CITY BALLET Sheldon’s compositions also include the score to the ballet Cole, based on the music of Cole Porter with choreography by Wayne Soulant, and Butterfly, based on the music of Puccini with choreography by David Nixon. Both commissions by BalletMet. Sheldon has also conducted pas de deux for Cynthia Gregory and Alexander Godunov, Marianna Tcherkassky, Soili Arvola and Leo Ahonen and Fernando Bujones and Susan Jaffe and Ethan Stiefel. Guest conducting appearances have included the New Orleans Ballet, Delta Festival Ballet, Hartford Ballet, Arkansas Ballet, Alberta Ballet and The Norwegian Ballet in Oslo. As principal conductor and artistic director of the Lancaster Festival in Ohio since 1988, Sheldon has commissioned and produced numerous ballets for young audiences including Puss n’ Boots with music by Gary William Friedman, The Frog Prince with music of Massenet, The Spider’s Feast – music by Rossini and Roussel, The Three Musketeers – music by Charles Weatherbee and Peter and the Wolf of Prokofiev. Photo: Gary Sheldon (center) with artistic director Lourdes Lopez (seated left) and the Miami City Ballet dancers and Opus One Orchestra on the set of the Nutcracker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63ff1e857fa52fe13b347f/79dc583b-54a8-42e3-a00e-ce362d4e3495/miami_butterfly.jpg Ballet Gary Sheldon’s distinguished career conducting for ballet includes positions with Atlanta Ballet, BalletMet, San Francisco Ballet and Miami City Ballet where he is currently in his 13th season as principal conductor and music director. His tenure with San Francisco Ballet which included tours to the Kennedy Center and the Peoples Republic of China. It was also Sheldon’s recording of Don Quixote with the Slovak Symphony Orchestra that San Francisco Ballet danced to at Les Ḗtés de Danse in Paris. With Miami City Ballet, Maestro Sheldon has conducted premieres by Alexie Ratmansky, Justin Peck, Brian Brooks, Liam Scarlett, Amy Hall Garner and Claudia Schreier, for whom he composed the score to The Source, an arrangement of the music of Julius Eastman, which premiered in April 2022. Company tours saw his debut at The Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York, the Center for Performing Arts in Ottawa, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, Le Chatelet in Paris and most recently, at Jacob’s Pillow where Sheldon was the first conductor to conduct at the new Ted Shawn Theater. 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With the Marin Symphony, Sheldon established the orchestra's annual composer symposia, the Marin Symphony Chorus, the Orchestra's great artist series, pops concerts and the Orchestra's first children's concert series, including the annual program, Where in the World of Music is Carmen Sandiego?©, a program he created based on the popular children's television show and software game, which subsequently toured throughout the United States. Photo: Conducting the Marin Symphony with Itzhak Perlman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63ff1e857fa52fe13b347f/6ffb772d-50d4-4574-a721-125c0ab1f55c/wilkes_HR.jpg Former Positions Mahler Symphony No . 5 - "The Marin Symphony, under Sheldon's secure, knowing, effective leadership, succeeded in giving an excellent performance." Janos Gereben, Marin Independent Journal Sibelius Symphony No. 1 - "Gary Sheldon's conducting, here as throughout, was passionate and precise at once." Michelle Dulak, San Francisco Classical Voice All-American Pops - "Maestro Gary Sheldon introduced the program and gave a short commentary before each work in his extremely articulate and witty manner." Carol Benet, Marin Independent Journal Photo: In rehearsal with Andre Watts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63ff1e857fa52fe13b347f/9ac1b8c1-e31d-4fe4-884e-a21f1400503e/Gary+Sheldon+with+President+Gerald+R.+Ford%2C+Jack+Nicklaus%2C+Bob+Hope+%26+the+Columbus+Symphony+Pops+Orchestra_SM.jpg Former Positions Gary Sheldon also served as Interim Music Director and Associate Conductor of the Columbus Symphony in Ohio from 1982-1987. He conducted over 200 classical, pops and educational performances with the Orchestra. Guest artists included Ella Fitzgerald, Barry Tuckwell, Yefim Bronfman, Andras Schiff, Wynton Marsalis and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trio. Sheldon also served as assistant conductor of the New Orleans Symphony under music director Leonard Slatkin. He performed with guest soloists Van Cliburn and Itzhak Perlman, and conducted over 100 performances throughout the Southeast on tour with orchestra. "Copland's Appalachian Spring was a complete delight. Conductor Sheldon gave the work rhythmic assurance, theatrical life and romantic yearning." Frank Gagnard, New Orleans Times-Picayune Following conducting studies at Washington University in St. Louis with Walter Susskind and Leonard Slatkin, and studies at the Juilliard School in New York with Jean Morel and Sixten Ehrling, Sheldon was selected as the only American conducting fellow at Tanglewood in 1981 where he studied with Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, Kurt Masur and Leonard Bernstein. Photo: Gary Sheldon with President Gerald R. 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Sheldon also conducted at the Spoleto Festival in Italy ("Don Pasquale") at the invitation of principal conductor Christopher Keene, and at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston where he led the first Festival Finale program at Middleton Place. "The Spoleto Festival Orchestra, under the gifted baton of Gary Sheldon, executed the music with a finesse and intensity that equaled the best of Spoleto". William Furtwangler, Charleston Evening Post https://www.gsheldon.com/opera daily 0.75 2021-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63ff1e857fa52fe13b347f/ac1b1a36-52c3-4305-b8b9-2770797bd8e0/Turandot2.jpg Opera - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.