::PERSONNEL:: 
:::: Lawrence Isaacson, Principal Guest Conductor ::::
Currently the Principal Guest Conductor of the Parkway Concert Orchestra, Lawrence Isaacson is a regular guest conductor at the Aspen and Round Top (TX) Music Festivals and was recently appointed the Director of Orchestras at Usdan's Center for the Performing Arts on Long Island. He has also guest conducted the Oregon Symphony and at the Eastern Music Festival. A champion of new music, Mr. Isaacson has commissioned new works by Daniel Pinkham, Kevin Kaska, and local composer Allen Feinstein.
Mr. Isaacson has released two albums to date. The first was released in 2001, entitled “Heroic Sounds”, and performed by the Old South Brass. The CD includes numerous transcriptions for brass, organ and timpani and four new commissions by Boston composer Kevin Kaska. It is available at: http://world.std.com/~eshu/osc/music/osc-cd.htm The second CD was released in April 2005 and brings together the Metropolitan Wind Symphony and two great brass soloists of today – Adam Frey, Euphonium and Scott Hartman, Trombone. This is available at http://www.mws-boston.org/.
As a trombonist, Mr. Isaacson has been heard worldwide in concert and on recordings with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Detroit Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Symphony and the Empire Brass Quintet. A graduate of Northwestern University with honors, his trombone teachers were Frank Crisafulli and Arnold Jacobs. Mr. Isaacson's current teaching duties include a faculty position at The Boston Conservatory, where he is Assistant Director of the Music Division.
More information is available at Mr. Isaacson's website: www.lawrenceisaacson.com.