Career Day Panel: Artistic Planning & Programming

Featuring Special Guests:

🎵John Gennaro Devlin is the Music Director of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra  a fierce advocate for music by living American composers, and a leader in designing innovative concert formats. John has recently commissioned and will conduct the world premiere of Migrations in Rhythm: A Concerto for Beatbox and Rhyme with music by Evan Meier and beats and lyrics by Christylez Bacon with Bacon serving as the rap and beatbox soloist.

🎵Anna Edwards is the Music Director of the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra, Saratoga Orchestra and Pacific Northwest Conducting Institute.  She is also a passionate advocate for underrepresented composers, for which she is working on a definitive database of composers.  Anna has done some really cool projects such as her 100 Days of Social Listening

🎵Joseph Matthews III is the Director of Artistic Operations at the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and a Sphinx LEAD Fellow.  Joseph is a violinist, and has worked at the San Francisco Symphony and the League of American Orchestras.  Joseph is passionate about artistic planning for orchestras!