Carmon DeLeone
Carmon DeLeone celebrates his 39th season with Cincinnati Ballet as Music Director. Our Maestro has composed many original scores for the company including his most recent The Princess and the Pea. His best-known work, Peter Pan, composed for Cincinnati Ballet in 1994, enjoys continued praise throughout the United States and Europe. Maestro DeLeone conducted the debut of Peter Pan in London during a 28-performance run with the Atlanta Ballet at the prestigious Royal Festival Hall. His list of ballet score creations also includes Frevo, Guernica, With Timbrel and Dance, and Ruth Page's Billy Sunday which was televised nationally in 1983. It will be newly staged this season along with his With Timbrel and Dance for a TV documentary and 13 performances by the Ruth Page Dance Center in Chicago.

In the fall of 1999, Carmon DeLeone made his New York Carnegie Hall debut with the Orchestra of St. Lukes. He was immediately re-engaged to conduct and host the following season's Family concert Series at the Carnegie. He has made frequent guest appearances with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Our Maestro is pleased to have made his initial New York conducting debut with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for their season-opening gala performance of Carmina Burana and Revelations at New York's City Center.

Maestro DeLeone is also Music Director of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and the Middletown Symphony. He was named 1995 Illinois Music Director of the Year, and under his leadership, the Illinois Philharmonic was named 1992 Illinois Orchestra of the Year.

For 12 years, Maestro DeLeone was on the conducting staff of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra serving as Assistant, and later Resident Conductor with Music Directors Max Rudolf, Thomas Schippers, Walter Susskind and Erich Kunzel. He was also selected personally by Maestro Erich Leinsdorf to participate in an intensive master conducting seminar at Lincoln Center. Our Maestro is the proud recipient of the Post-Corbett Award and has been named a Distinguished Alumni of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Cincinnatians are familiar with his popular weekly radio show, Sunday Morning Music Hall on WRRM-FM, and recordings of his music for dance, performed by the Utah Chamber Orchestra and the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, are available at WGUC's '90.9 Music Store' at www.wguc.org.

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