Joseph Flummerfelt
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Musical America's 2004 Conductor of the Year, Joseph Flummerfelt's musical artistry has been acclaimed in many of the world's concert halls for nearly 40 years. He is founder and musical director of the New York Choral Artists, an artistic director of Spoleto Festival USA, and for 33 years was conductor of the world-renowned Westminster Choir.
A gifted orchestral conductor, Flummerfelt has conducted more than 50 performances with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy and in the U.S. He has also appeared as guest conductor with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, and the San Antonio and Phoenix Symphonies. In 1988 he made his New York Philharmonic debut with a performance of Haydn's Creation, and in 2001 he conducted the world premiere of Stephen Paulus's Voices of Light with the Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir. In 2004 his New York Choral Artists recording of John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls was awarded three Grammys. Earlier he was nominated for the Westminster Choir's recording of the Haydn Lord Nelson Mass with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette with Riccardo Muti and the Philharmonia Orchestra. Widely known as a master teacher, Flummerfelt has long worked with both gifted students and established professionals in his classes and rehearsals at Westminster Choir College and in master classes in the United States and around the world