Claire Lewis, a graduate student at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, has been selected for the new Richmond Symphony Conducting Apprenticeship, launched in collaboration with the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, established by Marin Alsop to promote the conducting careers of women.
Lewis, a 20-year-old student of Alsop’s at Peabody, was conducting scholar at last year’s Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, NC, and was the 2023 winner of the Respighi Prize in Conducting, which led to her debut at Carnegie Hall with the Chamber Orchestra of New York.
Spending four to six weeks in Richmond during the 2024-25 season, Lewis will work with the symphony’s music director, Valentina Peleggi (a Taki Alsop fellow in 2015), and with the Richmond Symphony Chorus, Virginia Opera and Richmond Ballet as well as the orchestra.
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