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Douglas Droste (Cleveland, OH) is Director of Orchestral Studies at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts, where he conducts the Baldwin Wallace Symphony Orchestra and teaches conducting. An advocate of music education, Droste is active as a clinician and adjudicator, including Festival Disney, ASTA’s National Orchestra Festival, and the Music for All National Festival. He has conducted numerous all-state orchestras, as well as the Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall and Sydney Opera House, Let Music Live Festival at the Vienna Musikverein and Rodolfinum in Prague, Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Droste is a Yamaha Artist and Master Educator.
Droste’s guest conducting appearances include the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), and the orchestras of Kansas City, Indianapolis, Columbus, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa, among others. Equally at home in the pit, he has conducted over 30 productions of opera, ballet, and musical theatre.
A talented violinist, Droste has performed with the orchestras of Indianapolis, Canton, Cleveland Pops, Fort Wayne, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Nashville, and the Lancaster Festival. He is also skilled on viola, trumpet, and as a tenor. Droste holds degrees from The Ohio State University and Texas Tech University.
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