Oregon’s Eugene Symphony has announced that Alex Prior will be the New Music Director beginning during the 2025-26 season.

Prior will bring over 19 years of international and critically acclaimed experience to his appointment and his tenure with the Eugene Symphony will begin in fall, 2025.

Prior studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and was appointed by the Seattle Symphony as an Assistant Conductor. In 2017, he became the Chief Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at just 22 years of age. He is known for conducting the works of Jean Sibelius, Anton Bruckner, Galina Ustvolskaya, John Adams, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

He has also conducted such orchestras as the San Francisco, Detroit, Queensland, and Houston Symphony Orchestras, the German Radio Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Hamburg, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Calgary Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, and the Brevard Festival Orchestra, amongst numerous others.

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