SYMPHONY+: Peter Bay Conducts the ASO

• Peter Bay, conductor

Former Music Director Peter Bay Returned to the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra November 12 & 13 with the second of our Masterworks Concerts. Our Program: PETER BAY CONDUCTS THE ASO featuring the sonic splendor of the ASO's Low Brass in a special concerto just for them (and you). Plus, Dvořák’s first big hit symphony (originally listed as No. 1, but now known as No. 6)

About the series: Re watch our 2021-2022 Season of SYMPHONY+ Concerts online from July 18 to 22 from the comfort of your couch as part of our SYMPHONY+ Summer Festival or start watching now with the links below. For the new video for the Concert from Spain you’ll need to wait until the video is up on July 23, 2022 at 8pm Eastern. Don't worry we’ll send another email with the link beforehand.

Behind the scenes the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra has changed our streaming platform to integrate streaming into our regular ticketing system and we are republishing our concert videos through this platform. These videos, including the Concert from Spain, remain available to 21-22 Subscribers through August 31, 2022. We are planning a new season of SYMPHONY+ Concert Videos for the fall and subscribers will have the option of getting the new subscription as part of your subscription renewals coming soon.

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About Peter Bay, conductor

Peter Bay became Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra in 1998. He is also Conductor of the Bravo! Big Sky Classical Festival Orchestra (MT) and Arizona Philharmonic.

Maestro Bay has appeared with more than 80 different orchestras, including the National, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, New Jersey, North Carolina, San Antonio, Tucson, West Virginia, Colorado, Hawaii, Sarasota, Fort Worth, Bochum (Germany), Carinthian (Austria), Lithuanian National, and Ecuador National Symphonies, the Minnesota and Algarve (Portugal) Orchestras, the Louisiana, Buffalo, Arizona, Rhode Island and Boca del Rio (Mexico) Philharmonics, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Eastman (Postcard from Morocco) and Aspen (The Ballad of Baby Doe) Opera Theaters, and the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center. Summer music festival appearances have included Aspen and Music in the Mountains (CO), Grant Park and Ravinia (IL), Round Top (TX), OK Mozart (OK) and Skaneateles (NY). In June 2018, he led performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass as part of the Bernstein100Austin celebration.

Peter is the primary conductor for Ballet Austin. For Austin Opera, he has conducted "A Streetcar Named Desire," "La Traviata," "Turandot," "The Marriage of Figaro," and "La bohème."

Other positions held by Bay have included Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Breckenridge Music Festival (CO), Britt Festival Orchestra (OR), Hot Springs Music Festival (AR), and posts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Richmond Symphony. From 1980 to 1990 he served on the conducting staff of the Aspen Music Festival where he led concerts with four of its orchestras. Bay and the ASO with pianist Anton Nel released a critically acclaimed Bridge CD of Edward Burlingame Hill’s music. With the Richmond Symphony he recorded the US premiere of Britten’s "The Sword in the Stone" for Opus One Records, and with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Voices, featuring the percussion ensemble NEXUS. He is conductor for Christopher Cross’ "Secret Ladder" album and Hanan Townshend’s soundtrack to the 2016 movie "The Vessel."

In 1994, he was one of two conductors selected to participate in the Leonard Bernstein American Conductors Program. He was the first prize winner of the 1980 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition and a prize winner of the 1987 Leopold Stokowski Competition sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra. In July 2012 he appeared in Solo Symphony, a choreographic work created for him by Allison Orr of Forklift Danceworks. He was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in May 2016.