Louisville Orchestra Music Director Teddy Abrams on community engagement, Muhammad Ali, and more

Welcome to the National Orchestral Institute and Festival’s podcast series. Throughout this year’s edition of NOI we will be sitting down with visiting artists, administrators, composers, and participants in the festival for brief question and answer sessions to get their take on the state of music in 2016. Today I’m eager to share my conversation with conductor Teddy Abrams. At just 29 years old, Abrams has already had a sensational career. He has been a conducting fellow with the New World Symphony and the assistant conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He is currently the music director of the Louisville Orchestra and the Britt Festival Orchestra. Abrams is also an accomplished composer and performer. He was able to make time between rehearsals of this grueling program to talk to me about the pieces he had chosen, the role of musicians and orchestras in their communities, and a new work he had just recorded in tribute to Muhammad Ali. Find out more about Abrams at: http://www.teddyabrams.com/ The NOI+F website can be found here: theclarice.umd.edu/series/2016-nat…te-and-festival The schedule and more information about the Clarice can be found here: theclarice.umd.edu/