Benjamin Loeb (conductor)

Benjamin Loeb (* 1966 in Texas ) is an American conductor and pianist. The brother of the singers Lisa and Debbie Loeb studied music at Harvard University until 1989 . He continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music (piano accompaniment) (1992), received his doctorate from the Juilliard School of Music (1998) and studied conducting with Gustav Meier at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University until 2002 .

He founded the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestra and is the founder and artistic director of the International Conducting Workshop and Festival , which hosts seminars for prospective conductors and the US, Mexico and Europe. In 2011 he was musical director of the New Hampshire Music Festival . In the same year he succeeded Jena Maric as head of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony . In January 2013 he became Executive Director of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra.

Loeb has appeared several times as a guest conductor in China and gave master classes there. At the Peabody Conservatory he directed the world premiere of John Traills In Memory based on motifs by Anton Bruckner . He arranged 16th century madrigals for Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Project . He toured with his sister Lisa Loeb and accompanied her rock songs with an orchestra. He performed as a piano soloist under the direction of conductors Alan Gilbert , JoAnn Falletta and Carl St. Clair , and is also active as a piano accompanist. He made recordings with the violinists Joseph Lin , Takako Nishizaki , Livia Sohn and Judy Kang and the singer Allison Charney and released a CD with Ragtimes by Scott Joplin . In 2010 he recorded children's and Christmas carols with the soprano Katrina Swift .

Web link

• Homepage of Benjamin Loeb

source

• ctpost - Texan Ben Loeb set to lead GBS 'drive into new decade
• qctimes - QC Symphony appoints new executive director