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DARTMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College. Comprised primarily of Dartmouth students, its powerful performances have made it a major hit with area music lovers, who appreciate not having to travel to the city to enjoy a quality evening at the symphony. Conducted by Anthony Princiotti, the DSO is dedicated to the performance of standard works from the symphonic repertoire (while also including a few works off the beaten path). In recent seasons, the DSO has performed symphonies by Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorak, among others. The repertoire for the 2006-2007 season included Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin and a program of music influenced by Spanish and Latin-American cultures that included Chabrier's España, Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Gershwin's Cuban Overture. Programs for the 2007-2008 season include symphonies by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Mahler as well as concerti by Schumann and Dvorak. The orchestra performs in the Hopkins Center's Spaulding Auditorium during the fall, winter and spring terms. Sophisticated repertoire, student and professional soloists and sellout audiences have given the DSO a growing regional reputation for excellence in performing and programming.

Anthony Princiotti conductor is in his fourteenth year as conductor of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra. He received his Doctor of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and a BM from the Juilliard School. He was the recipient of a conducting fellowship at Tanglewood, where he studied with Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Meier and Seiji Ozawa. Mr. Princiotti has been a recipient of the Marshall Bartholomew Scholarship, the Charles Ives Scholarship and the Yale School of Music Alumni Association Prize. Between 1981 and 1987, he was first violinist with the Apple Hill Chamber Players and has appeared as a guest conductor with the Calgary Philharmonic, the Vermont Symphony, the New England String Ensemble, the Hartford Symphony, the San Paolo State Symphony, the Yale Philharmonic, the Norfolk Festival Orchestra, the Pioneer Valley Symphony and the Young Artists Philharmonic. In addition to his work with the Dartmouth Symphony, Mr. Princiotti is the Music Director of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra and the Associate Conductor of the Vermont Symphony. He is the producer of The Glass Bead Game, a weekly radio program that combines music from wildly different genres within the context of a particular organizing theme or idea. His recording of Telemann's Twelve Fantasias for Unaccompanied Violin is due to be released in late November of 2007.

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