Ankush Kumar Bahl
E-mail
ankush.bahl@njys.og
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Conductor
Described as an "energetic" conductor who leads with "clear authority and enthusiasm" by the New York Times after his Carnegie Hall debut, Ankush Kumar Bahl is currently the Music Director of the New Jersey Youth Symphony. He and the orchestra were recently featured on national television by the CW network and spent the summer of 2007 on an international tour to Ireland. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bahl received a double degree in Music and Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and completed his Master's Degree in conducting at the Manhattan School of Music with teachers Zdenek Macal, George Manahan and David Gilbert. Prior to MSM, Mr. Bahl's principal conducting teachers were Kenneth Kiesler, Alasdair Neale, and David Milnes. He is also fortunate to have participated in master classes and workshops with Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur, David Zinman, David Robertson, James Conlon, Sergiu Comissiona, Gunther Schuller, Gustav Meier, Larry Rachleff, Jorma Panula, Michael Stern, Murry Sidlin, Colin Metters, and David Effron.
Mr. Bahl lives in New York City where he regularly works with the conservatories, regional orchestras and professional orchestras in the area. Recent seasons have included guest conducting stints with the Ridgefield Symphony, the Chelsea Symphony, the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra and his debuts with the Portland Symphony (Maine) and Indianapolis Symphony. In the summer of 2006, Bahl was one of three Americans invited out of over 500 applications to compete in the Solti International Conducting Competition and this past fall he was invited by incoming Music Director, Alan Gilbert, to conduct the New York
Philharmonic as part of their periodic "young conductor readings."
Bahl recently concluded his 3 year tenure as the Music Director of the Ridgefield Symphony Youth Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra during which he frequently substituted for their, then ill, Music Director. Local reviewers described Mr.
Bahl as "energetic," "passionate," "sensitive," and "impressive" while also observing his "total mastery of the evening's scores, a fine conducting technique, and the obvious respect of his musicians." Mr.
Bahl currently spends his summers in Vermont as a guest conductor of the Kinhaven Music School and in Switzerland as the Artistic Director of the International Goppisberg Music Festival.
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