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{ <br /> Steven White, hailed by Opera News as a conductor who "squeezes <br /> every drop of excitement and pathos from the score," is one of North <br /> America's premier conductors of both operatic and symphonic repertoire. In <br /> 2010 he made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting two <br /> performances of Verdi's La traviata, starring Angela Gheorghiu. Since then <br /> he has conducted a number of Metropolitan Opera performances, with such <br /> stars as Natalie Dessay, Hei-Kyung Hong, Thomas Hampson, Dmitri <br /> Hvorostovksy and Matthew Polenzani. <br /> Maestro White has conducted concerts broadcast internationally from <br /> Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and the United Nations. Among the many <br /> orchestras he has conducted are the Moscow Philharmonic, the Philharmonic <br /> Orchestra, the Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand Montreal, the Greek <br /> National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, <br /> the New World Symphony Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the <br /> Colorado Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, the <br /> Charleston Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Fort Worth Symphony. <br /> the Alabama Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony and the Madison <br /> Symphony Orchestra. <br /> For more about Maestro White, please visit <br /> www.StevenWhiteConductor.com. <br /> The Slovak State Philharmonic, Kosice (SfK) was founded in 1968 in Kosice. <br /> the second largest city in Slovakia. The orchestra's first concert was in Arril, 1961) <br /> under the baton of chief conductor/founding director Bystrik Rezucha. As a lead]11 <br /> representative of Slovak music in Slovakia and abroad, the 85-member orchestra <br /> performs more than 60 concerts each season, including international performance, <br /> held in Europe, Asia and America. <br />