A
native of Great Britain, David Wroe
is Music Director of the Westfield
Symphony Orchestra, the Resident Orchestra of Union County, New Jersey.
Increasingly in demand as a guest conductor, he was on the podium of
the newly formed Fresno International
Grand Opera for their production of La Bohème last September. Recent
guest conducting engagements include his debut at the Santa
Fe Symphony, OperaDelaware, the Harrisburg
Symphony Orchestra, the Wayne
Chamber Orchestra, and L’Orchestre
National de Lille (France). Known
to have extensive experience as an operatic conductor, Maestro Wroe was
invited to Judge the Metropolitan Opera
National Council - New Jersey Regional Auditions last spring.
In
July 1999 he completed his contract as Principal Conductor at the City Opera of Heidelberg. Maestro
Wroe’s opera credits include La Bohème,
Madama Butterfly, Fidelio, Amadis (J.C.Bach), Merry Wives of Windsor, Arabella, Entführung, Ariadne auf Naxos,
and La Forza del destino.
He has initiated an Opera in Concert series with his Westfield
Symphony Orchestra. Repertoire
performed includes Porgy and Bess,
Hansel and Gretel, Madama Butterfly, and next season, Le
nozze di Figaro.
Additional
credits are many and impressive including the recently held positions as
Assistant Conductor of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the Kansas
City Camerata. Orchestras
conducted include the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony
Orchestra, New York City Ballet,
L’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, L’Orchestre Lamoureux, the Jerusalem
Symphony Orchestra, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Eugene Symphony
Orchestra, the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra, the Des Moines Symphony, the
Wayne Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonische Orchester der Stadt Heidelberg,
and the Symphonie Orchester Vorarlberg
at the Bregenz Frühlings Festival in Austria.
In
addition, he has toured Europe with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, and served as cover conductor for the San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra. In
1998, he conducted a benefit concert featuring Mstislav
Rostropovitch as soloist in the presence of Madame Chirac at the Théatre du Châtelet, Paris.
Maestro
Wroe devotes considerable time to the musical education of young people, and
played a prominent role in the Boston
Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerts. In
the 2000-2001 season he will begin a new position as Director of Orchestra studies at Montclair State University, N.J.
He has taught and given master-classes at both the New England Conservatory, and Harvard
University, and has served as Judge for the Music Assistance Fund
administered by the American Symphony
Orchestra League.
David
was a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood
Music Center where, in 1992, he received the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship. In
1995 David Wroe was recognized in the United States Congress as a recipient of
US Sprint’s Up and Comer’s Award
for his excellence in contributing to the community in Kansas City.
Also in that year he was a finalist in the 1st
Bernstein International Conducting Competition.
Mr.
Wroe attended Lancing College, has a Bachelor of Music from Manchester
University (England), a Masters of Music from Northwestern (Chicago), and was
a student of internationally renowned teacher Gustav Meier.
