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Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Press Release
May 10, 2006
TITO MUÑOZ TO JOIN CSO
CONDUCTING STAFF
CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra announced today that Tito Muñoz will join the CSO conducting
staff as an assistant conductor on August 25, 2006. His duties will
include assisting CSO Music Director Paavo Järvi, the conductors of the
Cincinnati Pops and May Festival, as well as guest conductors, as
needed. In addition, he will serve as associate conductor of the
Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. Eric Dudley serves as the CSYO
conductor.
Dudley, who joined the CSO conducting staff
in 2004, continues his role as assistant conductor of the CSO and takes
on additional responsibilities leading the CSO’s educational programs
including Young People’s and Lollipop concerts.
Muñoz, 22, has been a student in the
American Academy of Conducting at Aspen since 2004 where he studied with
David Zinman and Murry Sidlin. He has also participated in master
classes with Leonard Slatkin, David Robertson, Robert Spano, Asher Fisch,
George Manahan, and John Williams, among others. He was the recipient of
the 2005 Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize and, at the invitation of
Maestro Zinman, will make his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in
August. As a participant in the 2006 National Conducting Institute, he
will make his professional conducting debut with the National Symphony
Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in May 2006.
Muñoz is a native of New York City where he
began his musical training on the violin at age thirteen studying with
Hisako Resnick at The Juilliard School's Music Advancement Program. A
recipient of the Van Lier Memorial Scholarship, he studied violin and
composition at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division where
he won the Richard Kimball Award in Composition. Muñoz also attended the
prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and
Performing Arts. He continued his studies at the Aaron Copland School of
Music at Queens College as a violin student of Daniel Phillips.
As a professional violinist, he has
performed in many of New York's leading orchestras and is also an active
studio musician. He has won several concerto competitions and performed
recitals at the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. On
television and home video, Muñoz can be seen conducting for the
cross-over vocal group Amici Forever in their recent PBS special.
Muñoz is an American whose parental
heritage is South American. He currently resides in Astoria, New York
and will relocate to Cincinnati this fall.
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