Danail Rachev - Music Director & Conductor

Rachev succeeds Giancarlo Guerrero and previous Music Directors Marin Alsop and Miguel Harth-Bedoya as Music Director of the Eugene Symphony. Rachev will oversee all artistic activities of the orchestra, conduct the majority of their symphonic series concerts, program the orchestra’s concert seasons and engage internationally renowned guest artists to work with the orchestra.

Marin Alsop - Conductor Laureate

Marin Alsop recently made history with her appointment as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony beginning in 2007/8. She will be the first woman to head a major American orchestra, which mirrors her ongoing success in the U.K. as Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony since 2002. She has also just been named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow, the first conductor ever to receive this most prestigious American award.

 Eugene Symphony Music Directors

Lawrence Maves, Founding Conductor (1966-1981)
William McGlaughlin (1981-1985)
Adrian Gnam (1985-1989)
Marin Alsop, Conductor Laureate (1989-1996)
Miguel Harth-Bedoya (1996-2002)
Giancarlo Guerrero (2002-2009)
Danail Rachev (2009-)