New Associate Conductor Karen Ní Bhroin makes her UNCSA debut conducting UNCSA student ensembles including the Brandenburg
Ensemble, Amadeus Players and Bartók Ensemble performing the music of George Walker,
Belá Bartók, Edvard Grieg and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Additional direction for the
concert will be provided by faculty-artists Ida Bieler and Brooks Whitehouse.
One of Ireland’s leading young conductors, Ní Bhroin is also assistant conductor of
the Winston-Salem Symphony and director of the symphony’s youth orchestras program.
Her professional conducting experience includes Akron (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra, Rochester
(New York) Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ Concert
Orchestra in Ireland.