Personnel

David Feltner, Music Director

Hailed as “an intelligent and insightful musician” by The Boston Globe, David Feltner is entering his seventh season as Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Boston. Following the inaugural concert of the COB in January 2001, he was invited to serve as Associate Conductor and Chorus Master for Boston Lyric Opera’s 2001-02 season, for which he received critical acclaim. Of Verdi’s Don Carlos, Opera News wrote, “The Lyric Opera Chorus under David Feltner sang splendidly.” The same publication commented on the production of  Tod Machover’s Resurrection: “…the chorus, under David Feltner, proved fully up to the challenge of the complex meters and rich, kaleidoscopic colors of Machover’s score.”

Following his Jordan Hall debut, he was invited to serve as Cover Conductor for Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops. He has also served as Cover Conductor for Larry Rachleff and the Rhode Island Philharmonic and has been Guest Conductor for Intermezzo: The New England Chamber Opera Series, conducting Lee Hoiby’s opera, The Scarf.

Mr. Feltner is also Music Director of the Nashua Chamber Orchestra. His performance of Robert Edward Smith’s Concerto for English Horn with the NCO was selected as one of the top ten best local performances in New Hampshire for 2007. In the Classical Countdown: Best of 2007, music critic Jeff Rapsis wrote: “Conductor David Feltner brought the Nashua Chamber Orchestra to new places.”

He has participated in many workshops with master teacher Joseph Gifford, in Vermont and in Elba, Italy and has performed in festivals in Spoleto, Italy, Flagstaff, Arizona (performing Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle) and the Festival Musical de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Prior to becoming Music Director of The Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Mr. Feltner served for six seasons as Principal Violist of New York City Opera National Company. He also performs as violist for BLO, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Emmanuel Music and Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

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