Catherine Comet (born 1944) is a French-born, American
conductor
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who from 1986 to 1997 was the music director of the
Grand Rapids Symphony
The Grand Rapids Symphony is a professional orchestra located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1930, the Symphony is celebrating its 90th anniversary season in 2019-20. In 2006, its recording ''Invention and Alchemy'' was nominated fo ...
in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, becoming the first woman to hold a post as music director of a professional orchestra in the United States. During her 11-year tenure with the Grand Rapids Symphony, she also served as music director of the
American Symphony Orchestra
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.
[
] She received the
Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award in 1988.
From 1984 to 1986, Comet was associate conductor of the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
References
External links
*
Interview with Catherine Comet January 7, 1991
Women conductors (music)
Living people
1944 births
21st-century American conductors (music)
20th-century American conductors (music)
21st-century American women musicians
20th-century American women musicians
French emigrants to the United States
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