Chicago Philharmonic 2021-2022

THE CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY | 2021-2022 SEASON 25 2021-2022 SEASON Chicago Philharmonic With recent performances in London, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, Scott Speck has inspired international acclaim as a conductor of passion, intelligence, and winning personality. Scott Speck was named Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Chicago Philharmonic in June of 2013 and has been Music Director of the Jo rey Ballet since 2010. His concerts with the Moscow RTV Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky Hall garnered unanimous praise. Gala performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming, Midori, Evelyn Glennie, and Olga Kern have highlighted his recent and current seasons as Music Director of the Mobile Symphony. is season he also collaborates intensively with Carnegie Hall for the seventh time as Music Director of the West Michigan Symphony. He was also invited to the White House as the former Music Director of the Washington Ballet. In past seasons, Scott Speck has conducted at London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, New York’s Lincoln Center, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Washington’s Kennedy Center, San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, and the Los Angeles Music Center. He has led numerous performances with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Houston, Baltimore, Paris, Moscow, Shanghai, Beijing, Vancouver, Romania, Slovakia, Bu alo, Columbus (OH), Honolulu, Louisville, New Orleans, Rochester, Oregon, Florida, and Virginia, among many others. Previously, he held positions as Conductor of the San Francisco Ballet, Music Advisor and Conductor of the Honolulu Symphony, and Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera. During a tour of Asia, he was named Principal Guest Conductor of the China Film Philharmonic in Beijing. In addition, Scott Speck is the co-author of two of the world’s bestselling books on classical music for a popular audience, Classical Music for Dummies and Opera for Dummies. ese books have received stellar reviews in both the national and international press and have garnered enthusiastic endorsements from major American orchestras. ey have been translated into twenty languages and are available around the world. His third book in the series, Ballet for Dummies, was released to great acclaim as well. Scott Speck has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Voice of Russia. He has been featured in TED Talks and at the Aspen Ideas Festival. His writing has been featured in numerous magazines and journals. Born in Boston, Scott Speck graduated summa cum laude from Yale University. ere he founded and directed the Berkeley Chamber Orchestra, which continues to perform to this day. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, where he founded Concerto Grosso Berlin, an orchestra dedicated to the performances of Baroque and Classical music in a historically informed style. He received his Master’s Degree with highest honors from the University of Southern California, served as a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen School of Music, and studied at the Tanglewood Music Center. He is uent in English, German, and French, has a diploma in Italian, speaks Spanish, and has a reading knowledge of Russian. Scott Speck can be reached on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (@ScottSpeckMusic). “Scott Speck is as energetic as he is talented, with a charismatic personality that leaps over the footlights.” - e Baltimore Sun SCOTT SPECK Photo by Keely Payne Photo by Elliot Mandel