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Brian Dollinger
Music Director |
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Brian Dollinger: Music Director
Brian Dollinger is the new Music Director and Conductor for the Clinton Symphony Orchestra. He begins his post this season after a series of finalists came to perform with the CSO last season. With feedback from the musicians of the CSO, Board Members, and audience members as well, Mr. Dollinger was offered and later appointed to this post. He continues on into his fourth season as the Music Director and Conductor of the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra (IA), and his second academic year as Instructor of Double Bass and Conductor of the Bradley Symphony Orchestra at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.
Other posts he has recently held were Assistant Conductor of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra and Ball State University Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the East Central Indiana Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, the Marion Philharmonic Orchestra (IN), the Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra (IL), and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Dollinger continues his interest in new music compositions. He has conducted various world premieres including the world premiere of faculty colleague David Stern’s Henry David Thoreau contemplates eternity at Walden Pond. He continues to look for inventive programming opportunities to introduce Symphony audiences to music being written today.
He has been a participant at various conducting workshops which were organized by the International Academy of Advanced Conducting, American Symphony Orchestra League, and the Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina, among others. He has studied conducting with Adrian Gnam, Leonid Korchmar, Oleg Proskurnya, Manuel Alvarez, Larry Rachleff, Glenn Block, Leonard Atherton, and Tomasz Golka.
This year, Mr. Dollinger expects to finish his Doctor of Arts degree at Ball State University with a primary emphasis in orchestral conducting. He currently holds Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from Illinois State University.
Mr. Dollinger is a frequent guest clinician and guest conductor for numerous youth orchestras and youth music festivals throughout Iowa and Illinois. He also established the Muscatine Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2004.
He is the proud father of seven-year-old Arianna Rose.
CLICK HERE to contact Mr. Dollinger by email.
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