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Harvey Felder brings to the podium a refreshing combination of talents. He is known for his deeply moving performances of the great "Classical" repertoire as well as his entertaining performances on “Pops” stages across this country. Mr. Felder has distinguished himself as a leader among his generation of conductors. "Felder is widely regarded for his effective and quality programming and performances" (Saint Louis Star). He has been characterized as having an affable and magnetic podium demeanor that helps audiences feel immediately welcomed, comfortable, and connected to his performances.

Mr. Felder is Conductor Laureate of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, a position he accepted after having served as its music director for twenty-years. Under Mr. Felder’s leadership the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra realized artistic goals before unimagined and developed into one of the finest symphonies in the Northwest. Mr. Felder’s artistry, professionalism, and passion helped to craft the TSO into one of the Pacific Northwest’s true artistic treasures.

Felder has served as assistant conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony, Resident conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony, regular guest staff conductor with the Atlanta and Chicago Symphonies, and artistic adviser/conductor of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, Mr. Felder has held the post of music director with the Fox Valley Symphony (WI), Johns Hopkins Symphony (MD), and the Ann Arbor Summer Symphony (MI).

During the 1991 “Carnegie Hall at 100” celebration, Mr. Felder was invited to make his Carnegie Hall debut, conducting the American Symphony Orchestra. The success of these performances led to the beginning of an exciting and active guest conducting career. He has appeared as guest conductor with the Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Delaware, Grant Park, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Kansas City, National, New Jersey, North Carolina, Saint Louis, San Antonio, Spokane Symphonies; Dayton, Florida, Rochester, Orange County Philharmonics, as well as the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra (OH), the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, the Missouri Symphony Society, Chicago Sinfonietta, and San Francisco Bay Brass. International appearances include, Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Costa Rica, the New Japan Philharmonic, St. Michel City Orchestra of Finland, and the Osaka Telemann Chamber Orchestra.

Mr. Felder is passionate about education and connecting with audiences. He has served on the faculties of Eastern Michigan University, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, West Virginia University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Memphis. Mr. Felder's ability to communicate sophisticated musical ideas to young people, his public speaking ease, and his engaging professional demeanor have made him a valued asset to the organizations he has represented. "Audiences like his style...a reserved and dignified conductor who knows the score and what he wants to do with it" (Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel).

Mr. Felder has studied conducting with Elizabeth Green, Zdenek Macal, Kurt Mazur, Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, Gennady Rozdestvensky, Max Rudolf, Gunther Schuller, Michael Tilson Thomas, Otto-Werner Mueller, H. Robert Reynolds, and David Zinman. He attended the Festival at Sandpoint, the Conductors Guild Summer Institute, and the Tanglewood Music Center (Auditor). Felder holds degrees in music from The University of Wisconsin-Madison and The University of Michigan.

Born and raised in Boston, MA, pianist Seho Young is a rapidly emerging international artist, whose playing has been described as “very intelligent and mature […] thoughtful and polished” by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans. Known for his bold and innovative style, he has appeared in such venues as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Philharmonic Hall in Bratislava, Theatre Le Reflet, Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Moody Performance Hall, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Seho is an acclaimed performer, having won first prize and the chamber music award at the 2022 Charles Wadsworth Competition, third prize at the 28th New Orleans International Piano Competition, and third prize at the 2024 Dallas International Piano Competition. He has performed as a soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic, Dallas Chamber Symphony, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Brockton Symphony Orchestra, and the Princeton University Orchestra. Recently he presented a recital of all American composers (including his own arrangement of Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story) for The Bohemians New York Musicians’ Club at the Kosciuszko Foundation, and was featured in Tulane University’s Concert Piano Series. As part of the International Holland Music Sessions New Masters on Tour concert series, he gave recitals in a month-long tour across the Netherlands. He has studied under Boris Berman, Francine Kay, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Wha Kyung Byun, and performed in masterclasses for Stanislav Ioudenitch, Tamás Vásáry, Jeffrey Kahane, and William Naboré. Festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School, and International Piano Academy Lake Como. In addition to piano, he is also a passionate chamber musician and harpsichordist, appearing as continuo and soloist with the Northwestern University Baroque Music Ensemble and performing with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque. Seho holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Princeton University and a Masters in Music from Yale School of Music, where he received the Philip F. Nelson prize for musical entrepreneurship, awarded to one member of the graduating class. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music, studying under James Giles.

As a composer and arranger, Seho has written original work for orchestras, film, and musical theater. His arrangements span a wide range of genres and ensembles, from piano and string quartets to bands and acapella groups. He won first place in the Japan International Junior Classic Composition Competition, and an honorable mention for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award. As an undergraduate student, Seho wrote and orchestrated songs for the Princeton Triangle Club, the oldest touring collegiate musical comedy troupe in the United States, where he was also conductor of the pit orchestra and led vocal rehearsals and sitzprobes. He was the music director of Quipfire! Improv Comedy, tasked with completely improvising short songs and full hour-long musicals. He has studied composition with Alla Elana Cohen and taken courses in counterpoint and improvisation with Steve Mackey. In addition to musical theater, Seho is a passionate electronic producer, and is currently working on a concept EP of original music.

A technician at heart, Seho has worked at robotics startups in the Boston area and enjoys building and flying FPV drones and creating websites, including this one. He is a competitive ultimate frisbee player, a chess and Brazilian jiu-jitsu enthusiast, and a life-long supporter of the New England Patriots.