Princeton Symphony Orchestra music director Rossen Milanov will venture west next season, to create a new world in Columbus, OH.
Milanov, 49, has been named music director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, beginning with the 2015-2016 season. He will appear with the orchestra twice during the upcoming season, Jan. 30-31 and Mar. 20-21.
Milanov, who is also artistic director of Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias in Spain, will retain his post in Princeton. He will, however, be stepping down as conductor of the Collingswood-based training orchestra, Symphony in C.
This past week, he led Symphony in C in a concert featuring Peter Richard Conte on the famed Wanamaker organ at what is now Macy’s department store in Center City Philadelphia. Milanov will conduct the Princeton Symphony in music of Max Bruch and Anton Bruckner at Richardson Auditorium on Sept. 28. For more information on that program, visit http://princetonsymphony.org/.
Milanov’s primary residence will be in Columbus, where he plans to spend 16 weeks next season working with the orchestra, though he will retain his apartment in Philadelphia.
Milanov served with the Philadelphia Orchestra for eleven years, first as assistant conductor, from 2000-2003, and then as associate conductor, from 2003-2011. Concurrently, he served as the orchestra’s artistic director at its summer home of the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, from 2006-2010.
Here’s an article that appeared this morning in The Columbus Dispatch:
If all goes as planned, I’ll be talking with Milanov this week about his upcoming concert with the Princeton Symphony. The interview will run in the Trenton Times a week from Friday.
