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Theater & the Arts
The San Bernardino
Symphony celebrates 80
years of glorious music
San Bernardino Symphony Maestro Carlo Ponti, Jr.
For 80 years, the San Bernardino
Symphony has been providing timeless,
world class symphonic music to audiences
of Inland Southern California.
The symphony is led by internationally
renowned conductor Carlo Ponti, Jr. Maestro
Ponti has rapidly established himself on the
international scene as one of the most imaginative
of his generation of conductors.
Ponti began his musical studies in Paris as a
pianist and was a prizewinner in several competitions
including the “Claude Khan” and
“Radio France” International Piano
Competitions. In training to be a conductor,
Maestro Ponti studied at the Conductor’s
Institute in Hartford, Connecticut under the
direction of Maestro Harold Farberman. He has
also privately studied with Maestros Zubin
Mehta and Mehli Mehta, Maestro Andrey
Boreyko, and specialized at the Vienna
Musikhochschule under Maestros Leopold
Hager and Karel Ancerl. Ponti’s debut with the
Russian National Orchestra in Moscow met
with critical praise and led to his appointment
in 2000 as the Russian National Orchestra’s
Associate Conductor. In 2001 Ponti was named
Music Director and Principal Conductor of the
San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra in the
United States, a position recently extended
through the 2015 season. Carlo Ponti, Jr. is in
demand as guest conductor around the world.
In 2005, he was chosen as recipient of Italy’s
prestigious “Premio Galileo” Award for exceptional
musical achievement. Maestro Ponti is
committed to encouraging young talent and
regularly holds master classes in orchestral conducting
for students of all ages.
Approximately 80 professional musicians
play in the San Bernardino Symphony orchestra,
which holds its concerts in the historic
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September, 2008 INLAND ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW