Roderick Cox is a Germany-based American

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. In 2018 he won the Sir Georg Solti Conductor award, the largest of its kind for an American conductor. He served as associate conductor of the

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, a position he was appointed to in September 2016 after serving as assistant conductor for a year.

Biography

Cox was born in Macon, Georgia. He attended the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, and then later attended and graduated from

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with a master's degree in conducting in 2011. During his time at Northwestern, he studied conducting with Russian maestro Victor Yampolsky and acclaimed conducting pedagogue Mallory Thompson. Cox then went on to further his studies with Robert Spano at the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen, Colorado in 2013 and 2014

Career

Cox conducted the Northwestern University's various classical ensembles including the university's

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. Cox was an assistant conductor with the

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after graduating from Northwestern University. He became the music director and principal conductor of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra in 2012. He won the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize in 2013. In 2015, Cox began working as assistant conductor in the

, followed by the position of associate conductor in 2016. He debuted his subscription concert series in January 2017. After leaving the Minnesota Orchestra in 2018 Cox moved to Berlin, Germany. Cox has been described by the ''

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'' as having a "fluid conducting style."

References

External links

Roderick Cox, conducting compilation
(video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Roderick Living people People from Macon, Georgia Columbus State University alumni Northwestern University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)