Music Director, Arthur Post

In his ninth acclaimed season as music director of the San Juan Symphony, Arthur Post has built a reputation for innovative programming that combines the great classics with music reflecting local land, cultures and concerns. In April , 2010 he was appointed to the additional position of music director of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Canada, a full-time professional chamber orchestra. In the United States, he has led more than a dozen major orchestras, including the Detroit, Houston, New Jersey, Columbus, North Carolina, Virginia, Grand Rapids, San Antonio and Richmond symphonies. He will also continue this season as a regular guest on the conducting staff at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (opera) in Barcelona.

As a guest conductor in Europe, Mr. Post made his debut with the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin in 1993 and has recorded with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for the BMG label. Other international appearances include concerts with the Helsinki Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Saarländische Radio Orchestra, Orchestre National de Toulouse, Singapore Symphony and Jerusalem Symphony, as well as return engagements with the Orchestre National de Lille, Opéra Théatre de Besançon and Orquesta Nacional de Costa Rica. He has collaborated with leading artists Lorin Maazel, James Galway, Sarah Chang, Maxim Vengerov and Hilary Hahn.

Mr. Post has served as Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony under Lorin Maazel, Associate Conductor of the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and Resident Conductor of the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. A graduate of Yale University, summa cum laude with distinction in Music, he earned a Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School, furthering his studies at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Salzburg Mozarteum, and Hamburg's Hochschule für Musik.

Having begun his musical studies on the double bass, Arthur also enjoys variety of musical styles, including jazz and popular music, and has conducted tours with singers James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. His active interest in education led to developing concerts on Beethoven and Tchaikovsky for Pittsburgh educators that have since been performed in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His education program, “Music on the Inside” teaches improvisation and composition to musicians and non-musicians, and has been introduced to classrooms in four states.