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Paul Haas According to The New York Times, Paul Haas “is surely on the brink of a noteworthy career.” His conducting engagements have included performances with the San Antonio Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, among others, as well as festival appearances. Recently, Paul conducted the National Symphony Orchestra with Itzhak Perlman as soloist, and the Washington Post had this to say: “The young conductor Paul Haas was all about fresh thinking and visceral engagement. His musicmaking…revealed a keen musical mind and an impressive feeling for the natural pulse and trajectory of a score... Haas's sensitivity to rhythmic and dynamic gradation, and his ability to marry heartfelt expression with disciplined playing from the NSO...would have been impressive in a conductor three times his age. If Thursday’s concert was an accurate barometer of his talents, Haas is headed for a significant podium career.” In addition to his orchestral engagements, Paul Haas is the founder and artistic director of Sympho, a groundbreaking concert production company. Sympho’s first concert, REWIND, is a revolutionary visual and sonic experience that has been lauded by critics. “REWIND Refits the Classical Experience for a New Century,” blared the New York Times headline. “Something momentous has occurred,” raved the San Francisco Chronicle. And Symphony Magazine declared, “Something important was happening, something with emotional stakes.” Sympho’s second concert, TRACES, will premiere in New York City in March 2008. For more information, please visit the website at www.SymphoConcerts.org. Mr. Haas maintains an active role in the contemporary music scene, having commissioned dozens of new works, including one for every concert he conducted as Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony as part of its ASCAP Award-winning "First Music" program. His numerous television and radio appearances include features on a "CBS Sunday Morning" special entitled "American Maestro" and the McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase on New York's WQXR. Mr. Haas and the New York Youth Symphony were awarded the ASCAP-American Symphony Orchestra League Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational Programming, the first time that coveted award has ever been presented to a youth orchestra. Haas was selected out of hundreds to perform in the American Symphony Orchestra League’s prestigious National Conductor Preview this past season. Mr. Haas is a graduate of Yale University and the Juilliard School, where he studied conducting as a Bruno Walter Fellow with Otto-Werner Mueller. |
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