Robert Boardman Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Interlochen, Michigan, United States

Guest Conductor for Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra: Williams: Olympic Theme & Fanfare, Dvorak: Symphony no. 8, Brahms: Tragic Overture, Theofanidis: Rainbow Body, Mary Watkins: The People’s Awakening (World Premiere; Juilliard co-commission), Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

South Bend, Indiana Area

Music Director and Conductor of the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestras since 2011, during which the organization has seen unprecedented growth. Awarded 1st place in 2018 and 2015 for The American Prize, Maestro Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award in Orchestral Programming, for work with the SBYSO.Highlights from past SBYSO seasons include commissioning the world premiere saxophone concerto by Jorge Muniz, Motown Dreams for Timothy McAllister, as well as commissions of world premieres by composers Thom Limbert, John Griffith, and Ryan Olivier. In 2015, the SBYSO gave the North American premiere of Anna Clyne’s Masquerade, premiered the year before at the BBC Proms. The SBYSO is the first youth orchestra in the world to perform Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony in 2017 and 2019.

Worldwide

Conductor. Previously Associate Conductor (2006-2010) while also providing technical production, real-time lighting cues and audio balancing of up to 88 microphones for world-tour of Howard Shore's concert work, the "The Lord of the Rings Symphony" in six movements, for amplified orchestra, chorus, and visuals.

Ypsilanti, Michigan

Responsible for leading and administrating all facets of the EMU Symphony Orchestra, including managing four student staff; librarian, media manager, personnel manager, and equipment manager. Three performances each semester includes collaboration with ballet, community concerts, inviting guest conductor clinicians, annual concerto competition, area high school orchestra side-by-side concert, on campus pop-up concerts, teaching and overseeing student conductors.

Detroit, Michigan

From 2012-2018 served as frequent Cover Conductor leading pre-concert lectures and interviews. Assisted conductors, Neeme Järvi, Leonard Slatkin, Fabien Gabel, Thomas Dausgaard, Hans Graf, Giancarlo Guerrero, Hannu Lintu, Andrey Boreyko, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Nicolaj Znaider, among others.

Greater Detroit Area

Artistic Director (2015-2017), Co-Artistic Director (2012-2015) of Live from Orchestra Hall, the free worldwide webcasts of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Designed and executed detailed, rapid, real-time artistic direction to camera and technical crews for concerts of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s worldwide webcast performances, “Live from Orchestra Hall,” live-streamed at DSO.org; enjoyed by over 250,000 viewers in over 75 countries for 30 performances annually.

National Usa Tour

In 2017 and 2015, led the Grand Central Symphony of New York City on a national tour, collaborating with India’s Bollywood celebrity singer and songwriter, Arijit Singh, and his rock band. The tour traveled through sold-out 20,000 seat arenas in the cities of Atlanta, New York, Trenton, Orlando, Chicago, Oakland, San Jose, Tampa, Los Angeles, Houston, Austin, and Dallas.

Troy, New York

Santa Cruz, California

Doctor Of Musical Arts, Orchestral Conducting

Master Of Music, Orchestral Conducting

The Conductors Institute, Orchestral Conducting, Summer Graduate Studies

Activities and Societies: The Conductors Institute at Bard College with Harold Farberman and guest conductor clinicians.

Summer Studies, The Music Of Johannes Brahms

Prof. Joel Sheveloff