Princeton Symphony Orchestra
2008-2009 Guest Conductors

ANDREW GRAMS

Andrew Grams completed his one-year tenure as the Resident Conductor of the Florida Orchestra during the 2007-08 season and made his Chicago Symphony and Baltimore Symphony debuts.

Mr. Grams has completed his three-year term as Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra/American Symphony Orchestra League Conducting Fellow, having been appointed to that post by Franz Welser-Möst in June, 2004. As Assistant Conductor in Cleveland, Mr. Grams assisted Mr. Welser-Möst, and conducted subscription concerts, tour concerts, educational concerts and summer events with the Cleveland Orchestra.

As guest conductor, Mr. Grams has made subscription concert appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and has also worked with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville (FL) Symphony, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra.

TITO MUÑOZ

Tito Muñoz is currently Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra and conducting fellow of the League of American Orchestras. He previously served as Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. An alumnus of the National Conducting Institute, Mr. Muñoz made his professional conducting debut in 2006 with the National Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared with the Cincinnati Pops, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, and the orchestras of the Aspen Music Festival, Cleveland Institute of Music, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Colburn School in Los Angeles. He also appeared with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra for the 11th Annual Sphinx Competition in Detroit. He made his European debut with the Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon-Provence and will make his operatic debut in 2009 with the Opéra National de Lorraine.
A native of New York City, Mr. Muñoz began his musical training on the violin at age thirteen in the Juilliard School's Music Advancement Program. He continued his training at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, as a violin student of Daniel Phillips.

MEI-ANN CHEN

In 2005, Mei-Ann Chen became the first woman to win the prestigious international Nicolai Malko Competition for Conductors in its 40-year history. An international careerwas launched through impressive debuts with orchestras throughout Scandinavia, Taiwan and the U.S. She maintains guest conducting schedule with National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, Taiwan National Symphony, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and Norrlands Opera in Sweden. Most recently, she was named Winner of the Taki Concordia Fellowship and was immediately invited by Marin Alsop and Stefan Sandering to appear in subscription series with Symphonies of Baltimore, Colorado, and Florida Orchestra.

Before becoming the Assistant Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Chen directed five memorable seasons as Conductor and Music Director of the Portland Youth Philharmonic (2002-7) and also served as the Assistant Conductor of the Oregon Symphony (2003-5). A native of Taiwan, Ms. Chen’s musical talent was discovered by conductor Benjamin Zander and Dean of Preparatory Mark Churchill while New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic toured in Asia. She studied violin performance at NEC with Eric Rosenblith and James Buswell.

JULIAN KUERTI

Currently in his first season as an Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Kuerti served as Assistant Conductor to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 2006. He has conducted extensively in Europe and in North and South America, including concerts with the Toronto Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Symphoniker, and Budapest Festival Orchestra. Born in Toronto in 1976 into a musical family, Mr. Kuerti began his instrumental training on the violin. After earning an honors degree in engineering and physics, he began his conducting studies in 2000 at the University of Toronto. After a year as assistant conductor with Canada’s foremost training orchestra, Mr. Kuerti moved to Germany to complete his education, finishing his studies there in 2005 with Lutz Köhler at the University of the Arts Berlin. He also studied with David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen in 2004, and he was one of two Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows in 2005. Julian Kuerti is the founder and artistic director of Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop in Berlin, with which he has recorded a debut CD for Sony/BMG with Italian cellist/composer Giovanni Sollima.

SCOTT YOO

Scott Yoo is the Music Director of the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival in California. He has also served as Music Director of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble he co-founded in 1993. Maestro Yoo continues his role as the Resident Conductor for the Colorado College Summer Music Festival which he has headed for the past 4 seasons.

During the 2006-07 season, Mr. Yoo made subscription concert conducting appearances with the Utah Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Omaha Symphony, the Seoul Philharmonic and others. Mr. Yoo returns to conduct several weeks of concerts with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra this season (2007-08) and will also lead the orchestras of Columbus Ohio (A Golijov Festival with Dawn Upshaw as soloist), Louisville, Virginia, Alabama, Ft Wayne, Colorado, and Grand Rapids. An accomplished violinist in his own right, Mr. Yoo has also play/conducted with the San Francisco Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, and the Kansas City Symphony.