À Propos D’un Acteur/Actrice – (mai 2024)

Barlow Bradford

Dr. Barlow Bradford is a distinguished conductor, composer, arranger, pianist, organist, and teacher. He co-founded the Utah Chamber Artists, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1991 and had the honor of leading that organization to international acclaim. He is an associate professor in the School of Music at the University of Utah and has also taught at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Dr. Bradford has published numerous compositions and arrangements of choral and orchestral music. His focused, energetic conducting style led to his appointment as the first music director of the Orchestra at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he served from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Bradford was also the associate director of the world-renown Mormon Tabernacle Choir during that same time. Before that, he was the director of orchestras at the University of Utah. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Southern California. While at the University of Southern California, he was awarded the Kodolfsky Graduate Fellowship, the Music Faculty Endowed Scholarship, the Leo Podolsky Piano Performance Award, the Mary Van Lear Memorial Scholarship, and was voted by the faculty as “Most Outstanding Student” in both conducting and keyboard collaborative arts. He also studied conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Festival. And he earned his Bachelor Degree in Music Piano Performance from the University of Utah. As a teacher, he taught courses in music theory, conducting, arranging, composition, private piano and organ at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University Hawaii. His teachers and mentors include Gustav Meier, Daniel Lewis, Nina Svetlanova, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Gladys Gladstone, Lennox Larsen and Robert Cundick. Dr. Bradford is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His wife, Jean, is a violinist with the Orchestra at Temple Square.