Philip Greenberg, ICWC Faculty
Philip Greenberg is currently the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Kiev Philharmonic, a position he has held since 2000. He was for many years the Music Director and Conductor of the Royal Music Festival of Cahors, France. He was the Artistic Director/Conductor of the Crested Butte Music Festival as well as the Musica Negli Horti Festival in Tuscany Italy. He was for eighteen years the Music Director and Conductor of the Savannah Symphony Orchestra and has also held conducting positions in California, Arizona and Michigan. He has guest conducted many of the most important orchestras in the world throughout America, South America, Europe, Asia and performed with some of the world’s most illustrious soloists, including Isaac Stern, Yitzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Philippe Entremont, Eugene Istomin, and Rachel Barton Pine to name only a few. Philip Greenberg has held conducting positions with the entire range of American orchestras from major to regional, metropolitan and community. His 18-year tenure as Music Director of the Savannah Symphony brought the orchestra to international acclaim and attracted the world’s greatest soloists. Prior to his appointment in Savannah, he was the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Fresno Philharmonic, the West Shore Symphony, as well as Resident Conductor of the Phoenix Symphony. He was the Assistant Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the directorships of Antal Dorati and Aldo Ceccato. Maestro Greenberg has enjoyed an active career as an international guest conductor throughout the world, conducting such orchestras as The Moscow Philharmonic, The Danish Radio Orchestra, Beijing Philharmonic, The National Orchestra of Ukraine, The Mexico Philharmonic, The National Orchestra of Portugal, Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, The National Orchestra of Uruguay, The Bayerishe Kammerphilharmonie of Munich, Aalborg Denmark, Aarhus Denmark, Helsingsborg Sweden, The Cluj Romania Chamber Orchestra, Bulgarian Radio Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra of Novi Sad Serbia. to name a few. In 1977 he triumphed in the Nicolo Malko International Conducting Competition, the most prestigious competition in the world for conductors. He became the first American to win the judges first prize and was the only conductor in the competition’s history to also win the Orchestra prize, and he did this by a nearly unanimous vote of the musicians of the Danish Radio Orchestra. That year, the second prize went to Abbado of Italy, and third prize to Andresciu of Romania. He has given conducting master classes around the world including at the Moscow and Kiev Conservatories. His former students and assistants have held important music directorships with such orchestras as Cincinnati Pops, Shanghai Philharmonic, China National Symphony, Lincoln Nebraska Symphony, Duluth Minnesota Orchestra, Joffrey Ballet, West Michigan Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic, Mobile Symphony, Washington Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Beaumont Texas Orchestra, Hilton Head Orchestra, Windsor Symphony, and Lexington Symphony.