Peter Bay is music director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra.

Life

He graduated from the

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and the

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. He has previously been

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and Conductor of the Britt Festival

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, Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic, the

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, and the Breckenridge Music Festival, and has held conducting posts with the

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, the Richmond Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has been guest conductor for over seventy other orchestras around the

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Awards

* 1980 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition * 1987 Leopold Stokowski Competition sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra

References

External links

"Peter Bay’s lecture brings Mendelsson’s compositions to life", ''Lake Travis View'', October 21, 2009, Charles McClure
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