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Name: Donald Covert
Skills: Conductor (South Florda Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation, Incorporated - Music Director & Conductor)
Phone: +1 (561) 403 3991
Address: 2266 Avenida Alhambra, West Palm Beach, FL 33415, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Graduate 1984 Vienna Hoschschule (The Swarowsky Diploma) under Maestro Otmar Suitner. World's only person also studied at The Juilliard School and did the above. Therefore automatically qualified as Juilliard School's main Conducting product in time. Also Considered Leonard Bernstein's successor and USA's National Conductor. Represented in Musical America Magazine (one of a handful of American's on the Conductor's list). Also Studied Piano at the New England Conservatory with Theodore Lettvin (in the book "The World's Greatest Pianists) and studied Conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . With Nadia Boulanger in Fountainebleau and Paris and considered Mlle. Boulanger's finest of all Conducting pupils. [ she was the 1st female to ever conduct the NY Philharmonic]. Studied also with Franco Ferrara in Siena , Rome and Verona ... 3 different summers. [Radio Symphony Orchestra Zagreb] [Caracas Symphony Orchestra][Arena di Verona Orchestre] Won a Carnegie Hall Competition and got to Conduct the Cedardell Orchestra in Dartmoth Mass. in 1983. 1st Prize von Karajan Competition Berlin in 1984 (on crutches).

Assisted Leonard Bernstein from 1981-83 in various projects in Munich & Vienna. Konzerthaus Vienna [Pro-Arte Orchester of DG Records]. Guest Conductor: Het Amsterdams Promenade Orkest 1984-86. Det Norske Kamerorkest in Boulogne-sur-Mer . Zurich Symphonie Orchester {rehearsal}.

Hungarian Post Symphony Orchestra. Music Director: Tampa Bay Opera Corp. . Conducted the South Florida Gay Men's Chorus . Currently Music Director & Conductor of the World Class Orchestra, Inc. {was invited to Conduct: the Netherlands Philharmonic / Rehearsal. , New York Philharmonic / Tour in Europe. Bordeaux Opera / Philharmonia Orchestra; German Bah-Orchester Ueberlingen, Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, Opera Orchestra of Cologne, Miami Symphony Orchestra (L'histoire du Soldat production 2013). Music Director Matinee Opera Players / Tampa 2010-2017. Indian River Pop (New Year's Eve Concert) - Eissey Campus Theatre (PBG) 2016 (Strauss Jr. Waltzes). [all Conducting above executed via memoria].

 

 


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