Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano has conducted the great orchestras of North America, including those in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco.  Overseas he has led the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Czech Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Sinfonie Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic and Tonhalle Orchester.  He has conducted the opera companies of Chicago, Houston and Santa Fe, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden and the Welsh National Operas.  In August 2005 he conducted Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at Seattle Opera, and returns for the cycle in 2009.   With a discography of nine critically acclaimed recordings for Telarc and Deutsche Grammophon made over six years, Robert Spano has garnered six Grammy Awards. 

Robert Spano was Artistic Director of the Ojai Festival in 2006, Director of the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Music Center in 2003 and 2004 and from 1996 to 2004 was Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic.  Head of the Conducting Fellowship Program at Tanglewood Music Center from 1998-2002, he has received honorary doctorates from the Curtis Institute of Music and Bowling Green State University.  Robert Spano lives in Atlanta. 

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