Maestro Adam Flatt, NSO Artistic Director and Conductor
Maestro Adam Flatt
This season marks Adam Flatt’s debut with the Newport Symphony. He was chosen after
a highly competitive two-year national search, culminating in a stunning audition
with the Symphony last season. Mr. Flatt’s professional career began in Oregon when
he became Conducting Apprentice with the Oregon Symphony in 1995. In the summer of
2006 he completed a five-year tenure as Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony
in Denver under Marin Alsop, and he continues to serve as Music Director of the
Denver Young Artists Orchestra, with whom he has toured central Europe and
South America. In 2006 he assumed new duties as principal conductor of
Emerald City Opera, a summer festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. In the fall of
2007, he begins a post as Musical Director of the Colorado Ballet. Guest conducting
engagements have included the Alabama Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theatre, and the Dallas
and Houston Symphonies. He has been broadcast on the National Public Radio program
Performance Today and Colorado Public Radio’s Colorado Spotlight.
A native of Sacramento, Flatt received his Bachelor’s degree from the
University of California at Berkeley and his Master’s degree in conducting from the
Indiana University School of Music. He studied in master classes with Robert Spano
and Michael Tilson Thomas at the Aspen Music Festival. His principal mentors have
been Imre Palló and Thomas Baldner in Indiana, Murry Sidlin in Oregon, and in
Germany, the conductor-editor-scholar Max Pommer.
