PHILHARMONIC - Federal Way Chorale

A. Brian Davenport
Conductor
Brian Davenport is now in his 14th year as
conductor of the Federal Way Philharmonic.
Under his leadership the Philharmonic has
grown from a volunteer orchestra to one of the
finest professional orchestras in the Puget
Sound region.
In january 1989, Davenport traveled to
Finland to conduct Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
with the Tampere Finland Messiah
Chorus, one of Scandinavia's most respected
ensembles. In 1990 Davenport conducted the
Federal Way Philharmonic and the Interfaith
Choir of Seattle in a sold-out performance of
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the Seattle
Opera House during the Goodwill Games.
In April of 1991, Davenport began the first
in a series of trips to Russia to conduct at the
Tatarstan Theater of Opera and Bailet, in
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Featured in
the annual
Chaliapin
Festival at
the Tatarstan
Theater in
1991 and
1992, he conducted Don Pasquale, La Traviata
and Faust. In 1992 he conducted the world
premiere performance of Handel's Messiah in
Russian at the theater with soloists and chorus
from the opera company and the Tatarstan
Philharmonic Orchestra. A recording of this
concert has been heard on hundreds of radio
stations throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe,
Russia and Asia.
In December 1992, the Federal Way
Philharmonic brought the chorus and soloists
from the Tatarstan Theater of Opera and Bailet
to perform the U.S. premiere of the Russian
Messiah under Maestro Davenport's direction at
the Auburn Performing Arts Center.
In January 1994, Davenport traveled to
China to conduct the Beijing Symphony
Orchestra as part of a reciprocal cultural
exchange.
This year he will serve as the music
director of the Evergreen City Ballet and
conduct their performances of the Nutcracker
Ballet in December in the Auburn Performing
Arts Center. Next spring he travels to Ukraine
to conduct the Kharkov Symphony Orchestra.
Davenport received a B.A. and M.A. in
Music from Harvard, followed by studies in
Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Igor
Markevitch. He conducted the Monte Carlo
Symphony and the Darmstadt Orchestra and
held posts in the Cologne and Darmstadt
Operas.
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