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An Ojai Festival alumni, conductor and composer Brad Lubman enjoys a multi-faceted career. Having been Assistant Conductor to Oliver Knussen at the Tanglewood Music Center from 1989-94, he has since emerged as an unusually versatile conductor of orchestras and ensembles all over the world. He has worked with a great variety of illustrious musical figures including Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Steve Reich, Michael Tilson Thomas, and John Zorn.

Brad Lubman's guest conducting engagements include major orchestras such as Finnish Radio Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Dresdner Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Chicago Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, New World Symphony, Ojai Festival Orchestra, and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, performing a broad repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary orchestral works. In addition, he has worked with some of the most important European and American ensembles for contemporary music, including Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, ASKO Ensemble Amsterdam, London Sinfonietta, and musikFabrik Cologne in Europe, as well as Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and Steve Reich and Musicians.

During the 2008-2009 Season, Brad Lubman continues his collaboration with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, debuts with the SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony and the Ensemble Resonanz in Germany, and heads to Asia again for a debut with the National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan.

In May 2008, Brad Lubman's own contemporary music ensemble, Signal, had its official debut at the Ojai Festival and was praised by The New York Times for its "euphoric performances". Based in New York, Signal is devoted to presenting a broad range of new music with energy, passion and virtuosity.

Brad Lubman is Associate Professor of Conducting and Ensembles at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York where he has directed the Musica Nova ensemble since joining the faculty in 1997. He is also on the faculty of the Bang-on-a-Can Summer Institute.

Brad Lubman's own compositions have been performed in the United States and Europe by various prestigious ensembles. His first portrait CD has been released by John Zorn's label Tzadik. He has also recorded for BMG/RCA, Bridge, CRI, Centaur, Koch, New World and Nonesuch.

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