Meet the Candidate: Naomi Woo
- Date April 30th, 2024 Time 11:30am Venue Illini Country Club
Adventure awaits with your Illinois Symphony Orchestra! This season your Illinois Symphony Orchestra will be led by FOUR distinguished guest conductors vying to be our next Music Director. It's YOUR turn to be part of the ISO's legacy and help us select our next Music Director.
Get to know conductor candidate Naomi Woo while enjoying a delectable lunch with other music enthusiasts at this special lunchtime series hosted by the Illinois Symphony Guild of Springfield.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 @ 11:30 AM
Illini Country Club
$30 per person, includes lunch and tea, coffee, or soda
Schedule
- Social time @ 11:30 AM
- Lunch served @ 12:00 PM
- Program starts @ 12:45 PM
Reservations are due by Friday, April 26, 2024. Make your reservation today. Reservations may be made online or by mailing a check payable to the Illinois Symphony Guild of Springfield to P.O. Box 9641, Springfield, IL 62791-9641.
Support Provided By:
Springfield Venue Illini Country Club
1601 Illini Rd, Springfield, IL 62704
Featured:
Naomi Woo Conductor
Canadian conductor and pianist Naomi Woo is a widely sought-after symphonic and operatic conductor and educator and the 2022 winner of the Canada Council’s prestigious Virginia Parker Prize. After a successful three-year tenure as assistant conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra she will join the Orchestre Métropolitain Montréal as Artistic Partner from the 2023-2024 season and the Philadelphia Orchestra as assistant conductor for the 2024-2025 season.
Highlights of her auspicious 2023-2024 season include conducting engagements with the Orchestre Métropolitain, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and National Arts Center Orchestra; two appearances with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, where she is a music director finalist; and, an extensive tour of England leading English Touring Opera’s Cinderella. As an assistant/cover conductor Naomi works with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and Orchestre Métropolitain, and she conducts classical subscription concerts with the Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières, Orchestre symphonique de la Côte-Nord, Symphony Nova Scotia, and the Thunder Bay Symphony.
Engagements in previous seasons include the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Ann Arbor Symphony, Orchestra NOW (New York), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and Regina Symphony, and her debut at LSO St. Luke’s in London, with the ensemble Tangram Sound. On the opera stage, she has conducted the Canadian premiere of Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angel’s Bone in Vancouver and the world premiere of Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s The Night Falls in New York City. In fall 2022, she assisted the world premiere of Oliver Leith’s opera Last Days at Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
Naomi is a member of Tapestry Opera’s Women in Musical Leadership program and was chosen by her mentor Yannick Nézet-Séguin as a member of the Orchestre Métropolitain’s inaugural orchestral conducting academy.
Naomi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She has also studied mathematics, philosophy, and music at Yale College, the Yale School of Music and Université de Montréal.
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