Edward Dolbashian

Edward Dolbashian was named Music Director and Conductor of the Alton Symphony Orchestra in July 1993.

Edward Dolbashian began his musical training as a student at New York's famed High School of the Performing Arts. Upon graduation, Mr. Dolbashian entered the Hartt College of Music, where he earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in oboe performance.

Mr. Dolbashian's conducting career began during his tenure as oboist of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, when he accepted the directorship of the Holyoke Civic Orchestra. A desire to excel in the field of orchestral conducting took him to the prestigious Pierre Monteux School of Orchestra Conducting in Maine, studying under Charles Bruck, and to Yale University, where he served as student conducting assistant to Otto-Werner Mueller en route to earning a Master of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting. Further studies took place at the Tanglewood Institute, with Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn, and Gustav Meier, and at the Boris Goldovsky Opera Conducting Seminar.