 Master Teacher Dumitru Goia has conducted symphonies and opera orchestras throughout Eastern Europe, including holding the positions of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the National Philharmonic of Moldova, Conductor of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova, and most recently Guest Conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest, Romania. Trained at the esteemed Leningrad Conservatory, Mr. Goia represents the Russian tradition of conducting that includes Nicolai Malko and Evgeny Mravinsky. Mr. Goia has taught conducting at the State Conservatory of Istanbul, and he is currently Professor of Conducting and Orchestral Training at the National University of Music in Bucharest, Romania. Mr. Goia has also toured extensively throughout the world conducting performances on both American coasts and throughout all of Europe and Russia.  Assistant Teacher & Coordiinator Steven Huang has conducted orchestras and operas across the United States and throughout the world, including recurring guest conductor of the National Philharomonic of Moldova and l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Ste. Trinité, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At the age of twenty-one, he served as Music Director of the Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard University, where he received his undergraduate degree, as well as the Lowell House Opera, the oldest continuously running opera company in New England. He is currently on faculty as Director of Orchestral Activities at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has guest
conducted programs with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and abroad, he has led
the New Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria; the Attergau Kultursommer Orchestra in
Austria, in conjunction with the Salzburg Festival; the Jeunesses Musicales
Festival Orchestra, and Pitesti Philharmonic in Romania; the “Regina Vioara” International Violin
Festival Orchestra in Moldova; and L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Sainte
Trinité, Haiti, where he volunteers to teach young Haitian musicians.
Mr. Huang earned the Master of Music degree in Orchestral
Conducting from the University of Michigan as a student of Kenneth Kiesler. He
twice received the Herbert von Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors for
study at the Salzburg Festival, and the Fulbright Fellowship for study at the
National University of Music in Bucharest, where he was the student of Dumitru
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