Chelsea Gallo Email & Phone Number

Labeled a “rising star” within the conducting world (Anwar Nasir to the Associated Press), Conductor Chelsea Gallo has been praised for her ability to “lead the orchestra with grace and fiery command” (Schubring, Michigan Daily) For the 2022-2023 season, Gallo will be Assistant Conductor to The Florida Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and will be a regular Guest Conductor with both the Virginia Symphony and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a 2022 Award Recipient of the prestigious George Solti Foundation USA Career Fellowship. Additionally, Gallo is also a finalist for the Music Director positions of the Missouri, Lancaster, Youngstown, and Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras. During the 2021-2022 season, Gallo was the Assistant Conductor of the Louisiana Philharmonic, Conducting Fellow with the Dallas Opera, and served on the Conducting Staff for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. In those positions, Gallo regularly assisted some of the world’s most prominent conductors including Leonard Slatkin, James Gaffigan, Eun Sun Kim, and Carlos Miguel Prieto. Engagements on behalf of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra included recording the music for Lincoln Motor Company (™) Aviator commercials, Young Persons concert, and Detroit community Leadership events. As a guest conductor, Gallo has conducted the Jackson Symphony, Hartford Opera, Toledo Symphony, Slovak Sinfonietta, amongst others. Gallo has described her conducting pursuits as “a devotion to sharing the relevancy and humanity within Classical Music.” With her affection for science and music, Gallo has collaborated on projects aimed towards uniting both worlds. She has worked with organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Lockheed Martin, the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). She led recording projects for the Orion ETF-1 Launch Mission. The ensemble became the official Artistic Ensemble for the Hubble Space Telescope 25th Anniversary Celebrations. Gallo studied conducting in Vienna, Prague, and Banska Stiavnica with the late Maksimilijian Cencic and Leos Svarovsky. In Vienna, she studied piano with Giorgi Latsobidze and violin with Barbara Gorzynska. Gallo holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan where she was awarded the Helen Wu Graduate Fellowship in Conducting.

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  University Of Michigan

  Orchestral Conducting