Check Out Our RPO Guest Conductor Interview Series!

Polyphonic.org is excited to be collaborating throughout the 2013-2014 season with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as we interview conductors who are visiting Rochester to guest conduct the orchestra.  We talk about their background, their strategies for programming, their perspective on the changing orchestral landscape, and their advice for young musicians.  Below are links to the first two interviews of the season.  Check the Interviews page for new postings as the season continues!

Interview with conductor Jun Märkl

Interview with Bernard Gueller

 

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Stephen Danyew
Stephen Danyew

Steve Danyew is a composer, saxophonist, teacher, and arts administrator based in Rochester, NY. Danyew composes works for chamber ensembles, large instrumental ensembles, choirs and more, and currently serves as Managing Editor of Polyphonic.org. His music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the Miami Herald, and has been praised as possessing “sensitivity, skill and tremendous sophistication” by the Kansas City Independent. Steve received a B.M. cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and holds an M.M. in Composition and Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music.