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ALLEN
TINKHAM
Conductor, Orchestras
Director,
Chicago Youth Symph (CYSO); Chicago Symphony Orchestra Allen
Tinkham was appointed Music Director of the Chicago Youth
Symphony Orchestras (CYSO) in 2001. As Music Director,
Tinkham oversees all artistic programming and faculty
for a million-dollar institution whose ensembles include
five orchestras.
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He
has led the CYSO regularly in performances at Chicago’s
Orchestra Hall, Millenium Park, and Ravinia, as well as touring
domestically to Carnegie Hall, and internationally to Prague,
Budapest, Eisenstadt, Leipzig, Vienna, Warsaw, and Wroclaw.
During
his tenure, the CYSO has won four ASCAP National Awards for
Adventurous Programming
of Contemporary Music as well as the Illinois Council of
Orchestras’ Programming
and Youth Orchestra of the Year awards, and secured the institution’s
first live broadcast performance from the studios of WFMT
Chicago. Prior
to his appointment in Chicago, Tinkham served as Apprentice
Conductor of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, where he conducted
annually on classical subscription (sharing concerts with Music
Director James DePreist). Recent engagements include the orchestras
of Amarillo (TX), Dubuque (IA), Racine (WI), Elmhurst (IL),
and
Kansas City (MO), as well as All-State Festival Orchestras
in Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and
New York.
He
is also a regular cover conductor for the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. He was featured in the League of American Orchestra’s
Conductor Preview and was one of only three Americans selected
to participate
in the 14th International Nicolai Malko Competition for Young
Conductors in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has also been a seminar
faculty member
for the League of American Orchestra’s Orchestra Leadership
Academy. Tinkham
received his B.M. with Distinction from the Eastman School of
Music and his M.M. from the University of
Michigan.
At the
University of Michigan he was appointed Music Director of
both the Campus
Symphony and Philharmonia orchestras, and received the Helen
and Clyde Wu Conducting Fellowship, the youngest conductor
to receive
these distinctions. He has also studied at the American Academy
of Conducting in Aspen, the Conductors Retreat at Medomak
(ME), the International Institute for Conductors (Kiev, Ukraine)
and Scuola Leonardo da Vinci (Florence, Italy). |