Assistant Conductor, Baltimore Symphony; former Assistant Conductor, Atlanta Symphony; former Music Director, Portland Youth Philharmonic; guest appearances with all principal Danish orchestras, Honolulu Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Taiwan National Symphony, and Toronto Symphony, among others; participant in National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C., and the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen; Young Artists Sunburst and ASCAP awards recipient; first woman to win Malko International Conductors Competition (2005). www.schmidtart.com
Former Professor of Conducting, Berlin Music Academy; former music director, Schwerin Philharmonic, Loh Orchester Sondershausen; founder and conductor, Leipzig Academic Orchestra; many successful tours with well-known orchestras in Eastern Europe, Russia, Canada, Scandinavia, and Asia; active as musicologist and music historian; prizes include National Prize for the Promotion of Music, Leipzig Municipal Arts Prize.
Director of Orchestras, Moores School of Music; Music Director & Chief Conductor, Texas Music Festival; artistic director, Virtuosi of Houston; former music director, Brazos Valley Symphony & Sinfonietta; guest conductor, Houston Symphony, Russian State Symphony, Romanian & Kazan State Philharmonics, Grosseto Symphony Orchestra (Italy), Orchestra-of-the-Swan & Chetham's Symphony Orchestra (UK), Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Akademisches Orchester Leipzig, Honolulu & Florida West Coast Symphonies, Riverside Philharmonic (CA); Lichfield & Aberystwyth International Arts Festivals (UK); Lunatica & Pianomaster Music Festivals (Italy); Interlochen (USA); recordings, Albany Records.
Principal guest conductor, Louisiana Philharmonic; previous music directorships include Louisiana Philharmonic, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Kiel Opera and Philharmonic, Nuremberg Symphony, Freiburg Opera and Philharmonic; guest conductor, Dresden and Hamburg operas; professor of conducting, Hamburg State Conservatory; guest appearances with Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dublin, Nashville, San Diego, Colorado, and numerous broadcast orchestras and opera companies; recordings on RBM,Colosseum, Deutsche Grammophon and CPO labels; prizewinner, Nicolai Malko and Dimitri Mitropoulous competitions. www.klauspeter-seibel.eu
* University of Houston faculty member
