Michael Jinbo is entering his 21st season as Music Director and Conductor of the Nittany Valley Symphony. He is also the Music Director of The Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians, with whom he has enjoyed a long affiliation. Michael Jinbo is the third music director in the school's 57-year history, following his mentor Charles Bruck and the school's founder, eminent French-American conductor Pierre Monteux. Serving as the school's master teacher, Mr. Jinbo directs an orchestra comprised of musicians from around the world and teaches a class of 20-25 conductors each summer. For four seasons, he 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.
Mr. Jinbo received a B.A. in Music from The University of Chicago, specializing 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, Maine), the Herbert Blomstedt Institute (Loma Linda, California), the Scotia Festival of Music (Halifax, Nova Scotia), and at workshops of the American Symphony Orchestra League and the Conductors' Guild. His former teachers include Charles Bruck, Herbert Blomstedt, Sergiu Comissiona, Gunther Schuller, Daniel Lewis, Alexander Schneider, Max Rudolf and Ralph Shapey. In 1991, Mr. Jinbo was selected by the Conductors' Guild as a nominee for their biennial Thelma A. Robinson Conducting Award.
Michael Jinbo made his European debut in August of 1999, appearing as guest conductor with the Sinfonieorchester Basel in three concerts in Switzerland and Germany. In April 1999, he appeared as guest conductor in the Quebec Festival of Youth Orchestras, conducting a combined festival orchestra of over 100 musicians. Previous guest engagements also include two programs with the Altoona Symphony, a series of concerts with the Dayton Philharmonic, and a recent appearance as guest conductor of the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in their season finale, A Night at the Opera. In January 2000, Michael Jinbo participated in the Annual Conference and 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Conductors Guild in New York City, where he served as a guest speaker in a session entitled "The Education of Conductors." Mr. Jinbo has served twice as a member of the instrumental music panel of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is also a violinist, and has appeared as soloist with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, among others. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he currently resides in Maine.
Reviews "There are those conductors who talents lie in their sheer musicianship, their intensity, their musical sincerity... a conductor who qualifies for this status is Michael Jinbo." —The Ellsworth American "I have not heard better interpretations, care to detail and electrifying response from the orchestra [North Carolina Symphony] than under this conductor." —The Chapel Hill Newspaper "Jinbo was attentive to every detail. His orchestra responded with precision and virtuosity." —Centre Daily Times |
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