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Resumes of Key Artists and Personnel Grant Llewellyn North Carolina Symphony Music Director The Maxine and Benjamin Swalin Chair Grant Llewellyn is renowned for his exceptional charisma, energy, and easy authority in music of all styles and periods. Born in South Wales, Llewellyn won a Conducting Fellowship in 1985 to the Tanglewood Music Center, where he worked with Bernstein, Ozawa, Masur, and Previn. Since beginning his tenure as North Carolina Symphony Music Director in 2004, Llewellyn has captured the interest and imagination of everyone he encounters, including Symphony musicians and patrons. Critics and audiences alike have noted the passion and concentration of the orchestra under his baton and praised his"masterful pacing and control" and"graceful and expressive direction." To date,Llewellyn has held positions with three European orchestras: Principal Conductor of the Royal Flanders Philharmonic, Principal Guest Conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, and Associate Guest Conductor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.Notable recent European guest engagements have included the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, and BBC Symphony Orchestra. He retains close links with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with whom he continues to undertake television, radio, and recording projects. Llewellyn has conducted many orchestras in North America, most notably the symphonies of Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Montreal, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Saint Louis, and Toronto. Music Director of the Handel and Haydn Society from 2000-06, Llewellyn also has a reputation as a formidable interpreter of music of the Baroque and Classical periods. An equally accomplished opera conductor, Llewellyn has appeared at the opera companies of English National Opera(The Magic Flute) and the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where his repertoire has ranged from Handel's Radamisto to Alexander Goehr's Arianna. William Henry Curry Resident Conductor and Summerfest Artistic Director The Governor and Mrs. J. Melville Broughton Chair William Henry Curry starts his 16th season with the North Carolina Symphony in 2011-12. He came to the North Carolina Symphony by way of New Orleans where he served as Resident Conductor of the New Orleans Symphony. Maestro Curry serves as the artistic director for Summerfest and all North Carolina Symphony summer programs. Curry is also the Music Director of the Durham Symphony Orchestra, a position which he assumed in-the fall 0 '2009. A native of Pittsburgh, Curry started conducting and composing music at age 14. His first major appointment was at age 21 when he was named Assistant Conductor of the Richmond Chamber Orchestra. He also served as Resident Conductor with the Baltimore Symphony and with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Maestro Curry was appointed Associate Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony in 1983, a post he held until 1988,the same year he was named winner of the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition and performed in Carnegie Hall. 1