Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra
The official youth orchestra of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra is an ensemble dedicated to nurturing talent, building community, and empowering young lives in the state of Alabama. The group consists of 70 of the brightest young musicians from throughout the state of Alabama.
American conductor Kevin Fitzgerald is the recently appointed Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Music Director of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra. Additionally, Kevin holds the position of Music Director of ÆPEX Contemporary Performance, a new music organization based in Michigan. A fierce advocate for contemporary music, Kevin founded ÆPEX Contemporary Performance in 2015 to promote the music of underrepresented and underperformed composers to audiences in Michigan. In 2015, Kevin made his European debut with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in the culminating performance of their annual masterclass with Matthias Pintscher. Kevin has also appeared as a conductor at the Eastern Music Festival as a conducting fellow and participated in a masterclass with Marin Also at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Kevin believes that music is a vehicle for social change. In 2016, Kevin conducted an impromptu performance of Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor, K.626 dedicated to the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, FL. Planned in under 48 hours, the event that became known as “Requiem for Orlando” attracted over 400 performing musicians and a full capacity audience in Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium: over 2,500 people. Kevin has conducted numerous other concerts benefiting humanitarian causes such as the International Rescue Committee, the refugee aid organization Freedom House Detroit, Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence and the Houston Area Women’s Shelter.
Kevin has guest conducted the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Music Michigan. Kevin earned his BM in trumpet performance and music theory from the Eastman School of Music and his MM in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan. His conducting teachers are Dr. Mark Scatterday, Brad Lubman and Kenneth Kiesler.
This summer, Kevin will participate in the Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Seminar and recently conducted in a masterclass with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony.
Friday, 10:30 AM BJCC Theater
Concert Program
Coriolan Overture, Op.
62.....................................Ludwig van Beethoven..................................................................Kalmus Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a - I, III, and
V..................Pyotr Thchaikovsky....................................................................Kalmus Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 - I, II, III..........................Edvard Grieg
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