No, 40 is not the new 20. 40 is 40. Although I don’t think that #40 is any more important than #39 or #41(I remember doing a concert -being somewhat rebellious and silly at the same time- called “Gregory Vajda is 26 yo”) yet at age 40 I can’t totally escape thinking about what is behind and what is ahead. So to keep this light yet informative and hopefully blog-worthy I decided to list all the orchestras and ensembles I had the pleasure to conduct since I started my conducting career (my first real professional appearance dates back to 1998)
[Planning to write some more posts similar to this in the coming year.]
USA
Atlanta Opera
Baltimore Symphony
Camerata Houston
Charlotte Symphony
City Music Cleveland
Grand Rapids Symphony
Grant Park Orchestra
Houston Symphony
Huntsville Symphony
ICE: International Contemporary Ensemble
Kalamazoo Symphony
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Louisiana Philharmonic
Memphis Symphony
Milwaukee Symphony
Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra
Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra
Omaha Symphony
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Oregon Symphony
Philadelphia Orchestra
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Santa Barbara Symphony
Santa Rosa Symphony
Seattle Symphony
Symphony Silicon Valley
Texas Festival Orchestra
Third Angle New Music Ensemble
Toledo Symphony
Vancouver Symphony

CANADA
Calgary Philharmonic
Edmonton Symphony
Kitchener Waterloo Symphony
Les Violons du Roy
Montreal Opera
Montreal Symphony
Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand Montreal
Toronto Symphony
Winnipeg Symphony

THE AMERICAS
Orquesta Sinfonico de Nacional Costa Rica
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela

EUROPE
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Ensemble Laboratorium
Hungarian State Opera
Hungarian Radio Symphony
Klangforum Wien
MAV Symphony Orchestra
Pannon Philharmonic
Savaria Symphony
UMZE New Music Ensemble
Vienna Philharmonic

AFRICA
Cairo Opera