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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. |