The 2009-10 season marks Teddy Abrams’ second season as Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor of the New World Symphony Orchestra, among the finest international orchestra academies, founded by Michael Tilson Thomas, one of his early mentors.  At the NWSO Mr. Abrams’ conducting duties range from subscription, chamber and full orchestra concerts to educational activities and performances for young people.  He has conducted the NWSO in Miami Beach, Washington, D.C. and Carnegie Hall, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra made up of musicians from conservatories across the country at the Kennedy Center and Symphony Parnassus of San Francisco.  This season he makes his debut with the Marin Symphony.

An accomplished pianist and clarinetist, Mr. Abrams has appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, Oakland East Bay Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Orchestra and the Berkeley Symphony and has performed chamber music with the St. Petersburg String Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Susan Naruki and John Adams.  Mr. Abrams is the founding member of the 6th Floor Ensemble, a group of recent Curtis graduates dedicated to exploring engaging ways to communicate with a diverse range of audiences.

In addition to Michael Tilson Thomas, Mr. Abrams studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was the youngest conducting student ever accepted, graduating in 2008 at the age of twenty-one.  He also studied with David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival’s American Academy of Conducting during the summers of 2006 through 2008.  At Aspen, Mr. Abrams won the 2007 Aspen Composition Contest for his string quartet Erinnerungen. He received a bachelor of music in piano performance in 2005 from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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