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Meet the Conductors

Andreas Delfs

Principal Conductor

Now in his ninth season as Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Andreas Delfs continues to garner national and international accolades through the MSO national radio series and guest conducting appearances in the USA and abroad. Through innovative and progressive programming each season with the MSO...

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Matt Catingub

Pops Conductor

Multi-talented musician and conductor Matt Catingub wears many hats: saxophonist, woodwind artist, pianist, vocalist, performer, composer, and arranger. Born March 25, 1961 to parents of Polynesian island descent Matt likes to refer to himself as a "Pacific Island Mutt." As the youngest son of the late great jazz vocalist Mavis Rivers...

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JoAnn Falletta

Artistic Advisor

Hailed by The New York Times as "…one of the finest conductors of her generation," JoAnn Falletta currently holds the positions of Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and Artistic Advisor to the Honolulu Symphony. An effervescent and exuberant figure on the podium...

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Nola A. Nāhulu

Interim Chorus Director

Nola is Artistic & Executive Director of the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus, Choir Director at Kawaiaha‘o Church, Director of the Pearl Harbor Hawaiian Civic Club, co-director of the Hawaii Opera Theatre Chorus, founder and director of Kawaiolaonapukanileo — a chorus dedicated to the perpetuation of Hawaiian choral music, and is lecturer in Hawaiian choral music at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa...

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