Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. Who's that waving their hands at the front? A conductor does a lot more ...

Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since ...

There is always something new at the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and that is exactly ... Showtime is 3 p.m. “Something New” features guest conductor JoAnn Falletta, as well as guest artists ...

Violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Joshua Bell have also performed as conductors. Former Dallas Symphony music director Jaap van Zweden was concertmaster of Amsterdam’s Royal ...