WILLIAM R. LANGLEY
Founding Music Director of the Memphis Repertory Orchestra, William R. Langley, began his career as an orchestral conductor at age sixteen. In 2009 he founded the Wolf River Chamber Orchestra and in 2011 the MRO. Currently the MRO is the Orchestra in Residence at the Buckman Performing Arts Center where he has given over forty- five performances in the Memphis area. Langley also serves as conductor of the Blueshift Ensemble, a contemporary ensemble dedicated to programming and promoting new and existing chamber works while incorporating multi-genre collaborations, and was recently named Music Director of the University of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
An avid performer, the young Maestro has guest conducted the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra, CCM Philharmonia and CCM Concert Orchestra. Last season he made his debut with the CCM Opera Theatre where conducted a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide as a part of their "Bernstein at a 100" centennial celebration, performed and recorded (Naxos Label) in New York with All of the Above Ensemble, worked on Canadian-American Pop Star Rufus Wainwright's second opera, Hadrian, with the Cincinnati Opera, and ended with the launch of the MRO’s inaugural Choral and Orchestral festival at Lindenwood! The 2018-2019 season will include appearances with the Blueshift Ensemble at the Continuum Festival, Café MoMus, CCM Philharmonia, and will mark his eighth season as Music Director of the MRO.
Langley holds a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Cincinnati where he studied under the tutelage of Maestro Mark Gibson. In 2016 he attended the Conductor’s Institute at Bard College at the invitation of Maestro Harold Farberman where he worked with Maestro Farberman, Gianmaria Griglio, Lawrence Golan, Eduardo Navega and Apo Hsu. Other teachers include James Feddeck and Memphis native Michael Gilbert.
Langley, who “conducts with considerable theatricality and elicited a dramatic performance from the orchestra.” (Jon Sparks/Commercial Appeal), was the subject of a featured article entitled “Young Conductor Realizing Dreams” in the Commercial Appeal as well as the Memphis Flyer’s cover story “20 < 30” as one of “20 young Memphians shaping the city’s future”.
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Founding Music Director of the Memphis Repertory Orchestra, William R. Langley, began his career as an orchestral conductor at age sixteen. In 2009 he founded the Wolf River Chamber Orchestra and in 2011 the MRO. Currently the MRO is the Orchestra in Residence at the Buckman Performing Arts Center where he has given over forty- five performances in the Memphis area. Langley also serves as conductor of the Blueshift Ensemble, a contemporary ensemble dedicated to programming and promoting new and existing chamber works while incorporating multi-genre collaborations, and was recently named Music Director of the University of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
An avid performer, the young Maestro has guest conducted the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra, CCM Philharmonia and CCM Concert Orchestra. Last season he made his debut with the CCM Opera Theatre where conducted a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide as a part of their "Bernstein at a 100" centennial celebration, performed and recorded (Naxos Label) in New York with All of the Above Ensemble, worked on Canadian-American Pop Star Rufus Wainwright's second opera, Hadrian, with the Cincinnati Opera, and ended with the launch of the MRO’s inaugural Choral and Orchestral festival at Lindenwood! The 2018-2019 season will include appearances with the Blueshift Ensemble at the Continuum Festival, Café MoMus, CCM Philharmonia, and will mark his eighth season as Music Director of the MRO.
Langley holds a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Cincinnati where he studied under the tutelage of Maestro Mark Gibson. In 2016 he attended the Conductor’s Institute at Bard College at the invitation of Maestro Harold Farberman where he worked with Maestro Farberman, Gianmaria Griglio, Lawrence Golan, Eduardo Navega and Apo Hsu. Other teachers include James Feddeck and Memphis native Michael Gilbert.
Langley, who “conducts with considerable theatricality and elicited a dramatic performance from the orchestra.” (Jon Sparks/Commercial Appeal), was the subject of a featured article entitled “Young Conductor Realizing Dreams” in the Commercial Appeal as well as the Memphis Flyer’s cover story “20 < 30” as one of “20 young Memphians shaping the city’s future”.
WWW.WILLIAMRLANGLEY.COM || Twitter.com/LangleyConducts
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