THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | 2021-2022
STUART MALINA
Principal Guest Conductor
In a wide variety of
concerts, from masterworks
Entering his fourth season
as resident conductor
of The Florida
Orchestra, Daniel Black
has earned a reputation
as a conductor capable
of delivering “vital and
engaging” performances,
particularly of newer
works and staples of the
Russian repertoire. In
recent seasons he has
conducted the works
of Eleanor Alberga,
Florence Price, Jesse
Montgomery, Philip Glass, Jennifer Higdon, Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, Jimmy Lopez, Gabriela Lena Frank,
and more. In 2021-22, he will conduct the Florida premiere
of Kevin Puts’ new work Contact with the acclaimed
trio Time for Three.
Black’s recent guest-conducting engagements have
included the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony
Orchestra, Dallas Basically Beethoven Festival, San
Antonio Symphony, Savannah Philharmonic, Texarkana
Symphony, and more.
Black joined The Florida Orchestra as assistant conductor
in 2018, and was quickly promoted to associate
conductor and then resident conductor. With TFO,
he has conducted over fifty performances per season,
including Masterworks, Pops, Coffee Concerts, Family
and Youth concerts, film concerts, and more. Prior to
his engagement with TFO, Black served as assistant
and then associate conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony
in Texas, conducting over 150 performances.
Black has thrice been awarded the Solti Foundation
United States Career Assistance Award, and was a
conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, the
Kurt Masur Conducting Workshop, and the Cabrillo
Festival of Contemporary Music. He has studied with
Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart, Robert Spano, Hugh Wolff,
Larry Rachleff, Marin Alsop, Victor Yampolsky, Leonid
Korchmar, and Neil Varon. He has studied composition
with Richard Danielpour.
DANIEL BLACK
Resident Conductor
and grand
opera to pops, Stuart
Malina’s ease on the
podium, engaging
personality, and insightful
interpretations
have thrilled audiences
and helped
to break down the
barriers between performer
and listener.
In 2013, Malina was appointed principal guest conductor
of The Florida Orchestra, leading nine concert
series each season, including the orchestra’s highly
acclaimed Coffee series. Now in his 21st season
as music director and conductor of the Harrisburg
Symphony Orchestra, Malina was previously music
director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and
associate conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.
He is also music director of the Lake Placid
Sinfonietta, the orchestra of the Adirondacks, where
he leads a six-week festival each summer.
Malina made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2007, conducting
the New York Pops in an all-Gershwin tribute
including Rhapsody in Blue, which he conducted
from the keyboard. He has performed as guest
conductor with numerous orchestras in the United
States and internationally. In 2016, he conducted
two concert tours of Russia, sponsored by the United
States Russian Embassy. He also performs frequently
as a pianist, both as soloist and in chamber music. In
June 2003, he won the Tony award for orchestration
with Billy Joel for the musical Movin’ Out, which Malina
helped create with director/choreographer Twyla
Tharp.
Malina holds degrees from Harvard University, the
Yale School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music,
where he studied conducting with Otto-Werner
Mueller. In 2020, he was awarded the honorary Doctor
of Music degree from Lebanon Valley College. Malina
lives in Harrisburg with his wife, Marty, and their
two children, Sara and Zev.
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