Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras, based in Madison, has announced that TOM BUCHHAUSER will retire from his post as associate music director at the end of the 2012-13 season. In addition to leading the WYSO’s Philharmonia Orchestra for the past 30 years, Buchhauser taught at Madison Memorial High from 1966 to 1999; spent nearly 20 years as a cellist in the Madison Symphony Orchestra; served on the faculty of the National String Workshop at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and directed ensembles at the UW School of Music’s Pre-College Institute, the Madison Community Orchestra, and the Madison Symphony Steenbock Young Artist Concerto Concerts.     

Posted September 28, 2012