In Monday’s (6/6) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Bob Karlovits writes, “Daniel Meyer, former resident conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, has been chosen new artistic director of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra. ‘This is an orchestra of Western Pennsylvania’s finest freelance musicians, and I want to work to get the community behind it,’ Meyer says. Meyer was chosen in a surprise move in which two other candidates, Thomas Hong and Christopher James Lees, were the finalists in a nationwide search. Meyer, however, was serving the orchestra as artistic adviser and had conducted a concert in October. Morrie Brand, executive director of the orchestra, says Meyer ‘raised the bar’ in the performance and the musicians committee basically asked if signing Meyer rather than Hong or Lees would be possible. … Concertmaster Warren Davidson says Meyer is ‘a great choice’ who will ‘really move this institution in a good direction.’ … Meyer is music director of the Erie Philharmonic and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina. He does frequent guest conductor jobs, having recently returned from Stuttgart, Germany, and is preparing for the Grand Tetons Music Festival in Wyoming this summer.”
Posted June 7, 2011
