Karen Lynne Deal
Karen Lynne Deal (born May 7, 1957 in Richmond , Virginia ) is an American conductor.
Deal took flute lessons from the age of nine and played in the Richmond Youth Symphony Orchestra during her high school years . After completing her flute studies at Oral Roberts University in 1980, she studied orchestral conducting at Virginia Commonwealth University (until 1982) and at the Peabody Conservatory of Music (until 1989). 1983-84 she directed the Rockbridge Orchestra . During her postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , she conducted the Vienna Pro Arte orchestra and at the Frankfurt Opera .
In 1986 Deal became conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra . In 1988 she founded the Symphonia Concertante , a chamber orchestra for the performance of works by contemporary composers. In 1988 she won the conducting competition of the National Repertory Orchestra and became its conductor. In 1990 she founded the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra .
In 1992 she went to Nashville as the conductor of the symphony orchestra and artistic director of the ballet. In 1997 she also became a conductor at the city's Opera House and began teaching conducting at Belmont University . She founded a child-oriented interactive matinee concert series in Nashville and a concert series with works by Afro-American composers and with performances by Afro-American musicians.
Deal has directed the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Illinois Chamber Orchestra since 2000 . Here, too, she installed educational concert series for children and families ( sneakers and jeans , step by step ). In 2005 she was Composer in Residence at the Conductors Institute at Bard College . She has worked as a guest conductor with numerous other orchestras in the USA and performed a program with the Orquesta del Nuevo Mondo under the title Mujeres e Musicas with works by Clara Schumann , Fanny Mendelssohn , Maria Grevers and Maria Martinez .
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- The Illinois Symphony Orchestra - Karen Lynne Deal - Musical Director and Conductor
- Roderick L. Sharpe, Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman: "Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century" , Scarecrow Press, 2008, ISBN 9781461669487 , pp. 57-59
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| SURNAME | Deal, Karen Lynne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Richmond, Virginia |