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 SCOTT SPECK, Conductor
“Scott Speck’s sensuous and exciting
interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony took the audience
by storm. His sure, free and expressive conducting style electrified and
swept away the Russian musicians. The sophisticated Moscow public was
extremely generous with long and tumultuous
applause."-—Moscow, Pravda
With recent performances in
London, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, San Francisco and Washington, Scott
Speck has inspired international acclaim as a conductor of passion,
intelligence and winning personality.
Scott Speck’s recent concerts with the Moscow
RTV Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky Hall garnered unanimous
praise. His gala performances with Yo-Yo Ma,
Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Midori, Evelyn Glennie and Olga Kern have
highlighted his recent and current seasons as Music Director of the
Mobile Symphony. This season he also collaborated intensively with
Carnegie Hall for the fourth time as Music Director of the West Shore
Symphony (MI); and was invited to the White House as Music Director of
the Washington Ballet.
In recent seasons Scott Speck has conducted at
London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera,
Washington’s Kennedy Center, San Francisco’s War Memorial
Opera House, and the Los Angeles Music Center. He has led numerous
performances with the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Houston, Paris,
Moscow, Shanghai, Beijing, Vancouver, Romania, Slovakia, Buffalo,
Columbus (OH), Honolulu, Louisville, New Orleans, Oregon, Rochester,
Florida, and Virginia, among many others.
Previously he held positions as Conductor of the San
Francisco Ballet (1998 to 2002); Music Advisor and Conductor of the
Honolulu Symphony; and Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles
Opera. During a recent tour of Asia he was named Principal Guest
Conductor of the China Film Philharmonic in Beijing.
In addition, Scott Speck the co-author of two of the
world’s best-selling books on classical music for a popular
audience,Classical Music for Dummies andOpera for Dummies. These books
have received stellar reviews in both the national and international
press and have garnered enthusiastic endorsements from major American
orchestras. They have been translated into twenty languages and are
available around the world. His third book in the
series, Ballet for
Dummies, was released in September
2003.
Scott Speck has been a regular
commentator on National Public Radio, the BBC, the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, and Voice of Russia, broadcast throughout the
world. His writing has been featured in numerous magazines and
journals.
Born in Boston, Scott Speck graduated summa
cum laude from Yale
University. There he founded and directed the Berkeley Chamber Orchestra,
which continues to perform to this day. He
was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, where he founded Concerto Grosso
Berlin, an orchestra dedicated to the performances of Baroque and
Classical music in a historically informed style. He received his
Master’s Degree with highest honors from the University of
Southern California, served as a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen School
of Music, and studied at the Tanglewood Music Center. He is fluent in
English, German and French, has a diploma in Italian, speaks Spanish and
has a reading knowledge of Russian.
“Scott Speck is a great communicator of
classical music. He exudes his passion for music in every gesture and
every word."
—David Styers, American Symphony Orchestra League
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