New Conservatory of Dallas Chamber Orchestra

Christopher Adkins

New Conservatory of Dallas
Chamber Orchestra

Arkady Fomin, Artistic Director

The New Conservatory of Dallas is an internationally known music program with the mission to provide quality music education and performing opportunities for young musicians. Under the leadership of founder and artistic director, Arkady Fomin, the Conservatory Chamber Orchestra has presented concerts at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, performed at The White House, and toured Russia, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Scotland. The music critic of the Aberdeen paper, The Scotsman, wrote, “The Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, Dallas, produced some of the richest string sounds I have heard in the difficult acoustics of St. Giles’ Cathedral. The programme was performed with superb discipline and musicality.” Conservatory Chamber Orchestra performances have been broadcast by WRR in Dallas, National Public Radio, and abroad by Latvian National Radio and BBC in Great Britain.

Established in 1979 at the University of Texas at Dallas as a summer workshop, the program moved to Southern Methodist University and added year round activities. The SMU Conservatory was formed in 1982, and in 1994, the New Conservatory of Dallas became an independent non-profit music educational program. Today, the New Conservatory of Dallas offers a year round program and presents summer festival in Durango, Colorado.
All Conservatory students have opportunities to perform in solo recitals and in ensembles. Over the years, the Conservatory presented in Master Classes and concerts the late Dorothy DeLay, Pinchas Zukerman, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Tokyo String Quartet, Emanuel Borok, Lynn Harrell, Midori, Shlomo Mintz, Itzhak Perlman, Ralph Kirshbaum, Gidon Kremer, Wendy Warner , Joshua Bell and Vadim Gluzman.
A most important focus of the Conservatory though out the years is the cultivation of classical music into the next generation. It is because of the training at the Conservatory that hundreds of young people have developed a love and understanding of classical music. Many former Conservatory students have become professional musicians, and others help fill the concert halls as audience members.

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