In the June issue of Harvard Business School’s Alumni magazine, Dan Morrell profiles Carlos Miguel Prieto, music director of the Louis Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2006, “Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert…. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins.… Their conductor, Carlos Miguel Prieto (MBA 1992), who had been named music director in just a week before the flooding began … was tasked with rebuilding an orchestra with no home or foreseeable income.” Prieto has rebuilt the orchestra on multiple fronts, including his musician-friendly approach, which “has attracted both marquee soloists and highly touted new orchestra members.” Prieto, a native of Mexico and son of cellist Carlos Prieto, “has an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS…. In 1998, at age 31, he became music director of the Mexico City Philharmonic.… The post was followed by a series of conducting positions in the United States (Alabama’s Huntsville Symphony and the Houston Symphony) and Mexico (the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa).” The article includes video and audio clips. The Louisiana Philharmonic returns to the restored Orpheum this September, opening its 2015-16 season with Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony.
Posted June 11, 2015
