Teatro Grattacielo
2 Riverside Drive
2C
New York, NY
10023
212-595-7127
Maestro David Wroe
Consistenly bringing acclaim in reviews for Teatro Grattacielo, British-American Conductor David Wroe brings his dynamic musical skills, energy, and enthusiasm to the conductor's podium. Maestro Wroe has been Music Director of Teatro Grattacielo since 2006, conducting Zandonai's La Farsa Amorosa, Leoni's L'Oracolo, Montemezzi's L'Incantesimo, and Mascagni's Il Piccolo Marat.
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Teatro Grattacielo's Maestro David Wroe |
Wroe is adept at developing new works and well as bringing a fresh look to the standard orchestra and opera repertory. His leadership skills have been recognized with organizations where he has been music director, and he shows his organizational skills expanding existing arts series and creating new ones.
David Wroe has also been a regular conductor of New York City Opera in recent seasons, having led performances of La Bohème and Don Giovanni, and for the past and present season he is a guest conductor of the orchestra at New York University. He is also Music Director of the Westfield Symphony Orchestra of New Jersey and has led several readings of new operas for the VOX series of new operas at New York City Opera.
Abroad he has led performances with L’Orchestre Nationale de Lille at the Flâneries Musicales de Reims, L’Orchestre de Basse-Normandie where he toured Northern France, L’Orchestra Lamoureux at Paris’ renowned Théâtre Châtelet with cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Loh-Orchester Sondershausen , Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan National Symphony, L’Ensemble de Paris, a tour of Western Austria with Vorarlberg Symphony and at the Bregenz Frühlings Festival, Delaware Symphony, Shenzhen Symphony (China), Symphony Nova Scotia, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and Santa Fe Symphony. Other auspicious debuts include Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, New York City Ballet, De Moines Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonische Orchester der Stadt Heidelberg.
Maestro Wroe directs the summer ‘Opera Under the Stars’ series at the 7000 seat Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey, and he has initiated an Opera in Concert series with his Westfield Symphony Orchestra to great critical review - repertoire including Porgy and Bess, Tosca, Turandot, Carmen, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Aïda, and Otello. He opened the newly formed Fresno International Grand Opera for their production of La Bohème. He has served as Judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council, New Jersey Regional Auditions.
He devotes considerable time to the musical education of young people, presently leading the Taipei Symphony Orchestra Summer Youth Festival in 07. He has conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerts. He has taught and given master-classes at New England Conservatory as well as Harvard University. He was director or orchestras at Montclair State University from 2000-2005, and has served as Judge for the Music Assistance Fund administered by the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Early in his career he was Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, leading the orchestra at Tanglewood and at Symphony Hall, in addition to touring Europe with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players.
Awards are numerous, including the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship at Tanglewood, a citation in United States Congress for community commitment, and finalist in the 1st Bernstein International Conducting Competition. David attended Lancing College, has a BMus from Manchester University (England), a MM from Northwestern University (Chicago), and was a student of Gustav Meier and Victor Yamposky.