Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra

Maestro Charles Peltz enters his eleventh season with the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra. He has led the Symphony in new repertoire and presented world-renowned guest artists. He has greatly increased the number of diverse musical offerings to include family and summer pops programs. He led the Symphony in its first music festival, MUSICBRIDGE 2005, for which, along with the world première of Joan Tower’s Made in America, the Symphony gained national attention. Maestro Peltz reaches out to the community by working with students in the schools, speaking to area service organizations and the Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum. He has positioned himself in the Glens Falls region as a musician, an educator, and a friend.

In addition to his duties with the GFSO, Maestro Peltz is director of the internationally acclaimed Wind Ensembles at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and was a regular guest conductor of the Orquestra Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá where the press has said, “this maestro is a fiesta for the eyes and ears.”  Summer 2006 saw his first engagement with the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland. In previous summers, he has been Music Director for the Luzerne Music Center. He has held positions as staff conductor of the Syracuse Symphony principally acting as music director of the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra, and as resident conductor of the Greater Buffalo Opera Company.  In recent seasons his guest conducting has included both orchestra and opera at the Hartt School and appearances with the Merrick Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, New Jersey Ballet, and Delaware Valley Philharmonic.  His award winning recordings are on the MODE label.

Maestro Peltz holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music from which he graduated with distinction in performance and highest academic honors, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College where he studied with marimba virtuoso, Gordon Stout.  His teachers include Murry Sidlin, Frank Battisti, Pamela Gearhart, Richard Woitach, and Donald Hunsberger.