David Hoose
Music Director

David Hoose has been Music Director of the Cantata Singers & Ensemble since 1982. He is also Music Director of Collage New Music and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and is Director of Orchestral Activities and Chairman ofthe Conducting Department at the Boston University School for the Arts.

Mr. Hoose has appeared as guest conductor with the Singapore Symphony, Utah Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Korean Broadcasting Symphony (KBS), Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Quad City Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony, June Opera Festival, and Orchestra Regionale Toscana (Florence). In Boston, he has appeared as conductor with the Handel & Haydn Society, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Back Bay Chorale, Chorus Pro Musica, Alea III, Dinosaur Annex, and Emmanuel Music.

Highly respected for his performances of twentieth-century music, Mr. Hoose has given many premieres, including the first American performances of the Peter Maxwell Davies opera The Lighthouse(Peter Sellars, Director) and the world premier of John Harbison's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flight Into Egypt. Under his direction the Cantata Singers has commissioned five major choral-orchestral works and won the 1995 ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.

David Hoose received his Bachelor of Music degree in composition and theory at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and continued with graduate study at Brandeis University. In 1980 he received the Dmitri Mitropoulos Award as a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied with Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, and Leonard Bernstein. He has recorded for Nonesuch, Koch, CRI, Delos and New World Records. As a horn player Mr. Hoose was a founding member of the Emmanuel Wind Quintet, which won the 1981 Walter W. Naumburg Award for Chamber Music.

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