“A month after its Battle of the Batons concerts, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra announced its new assistant conductor: Adam Kerry Boyles, the current director of orchestras at M.I.T. in Cambridge and music director of the Brookline Symphony Orchestra,” writes Michael Hamad in Thursday’s (2/18) Hartford Courant (Connecticut). “For the audition concerts, Boyles conducted the HSO in performances of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and two movements of Giovanni Bottesini’s Double Bass Concerto, featuring orchestra member Rick Rozie as the soloist. As he settles into his new role, Boyles will program and conduct the Discovery Series performances of ‘Exploring Emotions’ for area children, and will begin work with [Music Director Carolyn] Kuan on this summer’s Talcott Mountain Music Festival, among other responsibilities…. The new position, HSO director of artistic operations Stephen Collins told The Courant last month, is ‘expense-neutral. We have money set aside for guest conductors that will be directed toward this position,’ Collins said. ‘A lot of folks are asking that question. It’s a real investment in the value of the orchestra.’ ”
Posted February 19, 2016
