George Daugherty

George Daugherty made his conducting debut in 1975 in his home state of Indiana, at age 20, conducting for Metropolitan Opera soprano Roberta Peters and his Pendleton Festival Symphony, a summer orchestra he had founded. His major symphony orchestra debut came in 1978, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at The Eastman Theatre. During his 20’s, he was a conductor for American Ballet Theatre, the Bayerische Statsoper / Bavarian State Opera and Ballet, major Italian opera houses in Milan, Turin, Florence, Regio Emilia, and Rome, and was the music director of The Chicago City Ballet, Ballet Chicago, and Louisville Ballet (conducting hundreds of performances with The Louisville Orchestra.) Since then, Daugherty has guest conducted virtually every major symphony orchestra in America and Canada, including repeated guest engagements with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony, Houston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, National Arts Centre Orchestra, and scores of others. Internationally, he has conducted frequently for The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, both in London and on international tour, as well as The Sydney Symphony at The Sydney Opera House, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra during the 2010 inaugural season of their new DR Concert Hall, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, The New Japan Philharmonic, The Malaysian Philharmonic, the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and numerous others. Daugherty was one of the very first conductors to pair symphony orchestras with big screen visuals, and has received critical acclaim for the creation of his unique “film and orchestra” concerts, including “Bugs Bunny on Broadway,” “Bugs Bunny at The Symphony,” “Rodgers & Hammerstein On Stage and Screen,” and many others. Among the many awards he has received, he has been nominated for five Emmy Awards for his work as a director, producer, conductor, and writer of both arts and children’s television for the ABC and PBS networks, and won a Primetime Emmy for his production of “Peter and The Wolf,” which won the Emmy for Outstanding Primetime Children’s Television Program/Series. Daugherty lives in San Francisco.http://imgartists.com/artist/george_daugherty