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CONDUCTOR & MUSIC DIRECTOR
Michael Paul Gibson is the Music Director, Conductor and founder of the Silicon Valley Symphony. He is the Director of Music Ministry for the Presbyterian Church of Los Gatos. He is the founding Music Director of the Menlo Park Chorus, and conducted the group from 1998 - 2005. He is the Music Director of the Bay Area Little Symphony, and Bay Area Music Foundation, and past Music Director of the Foothill Orchestra. Maestro Gibson has had master classes with Georg Solti and Carlo Maria Giulini working with the Chicago Symphony, Neville Marriner with the Los Angles Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman at San Francisco State University, and Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach) with the Denver Symphony. He studied orchestral conducting with Bernard Rubenstein (NU), John Miller (Denver Sym.), and Lazlo Varga (SFSU); instrumental conducting from John Paynter(NU); and choral conducting with Margaret Hillis (Chicago Symphony Chorus) at Northwestern University from which he holds Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting degrees. He played trombone in the Denver Symphony, Bohemian Club Orchestra, and the San Francisco 49ers Band. Gibson founded and conducted the Colorado Springs Chamber Music Society from 1971 - 1974 while serving in the Air Force and playing in the Norad Band and Air Force Academy Band. He also offers expertise in business, operating his own company, BACH to Music. Please visit his web site for details and resume.
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