STANLEY SPERBER

the music director and
chief conductor of the
Haifa Symphony Orchestra
from 1985 to 2000,
is now its conductor laureate.

Mr. Sperber graduated from
Columbia University
in musicology and from the
Julliard School of Music
in conducting.
In New York he founded the
Zamir Chorale and made his
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
debut in 1973, a year
after immigrating to Israel.
He served as the
music director of the
Holon Chamber Orchestra and the
Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir,
and as the music director and
chief conductor
of the Rinat National Choir.
He also conducted
Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd"
at the New Israeli Opera.

Mr. Sperber has toured extensively
in Europe and North America.
He has conducted the
Symphony Orchestra of Baku,
Azerbaijan,
the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic
in Zholin, the
London Symphony Orchestra,
the Philharmonia Orchestra (London),
the Budapest Philharmonic,
orchestras in Canada and the USA,
the Saloniki Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Novosibirsk
Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Colorado Music Festival,
the Estonian Symphony Orchestra,
two performances of
Handel's "Messiah"
in Chicago's Orchestra Hall
with a chorus of 2500 singers,
the Sofia Symphony Orchestra,
and the Krakow Symphony Orchestra.

While music director of the
Haifa Symphony Orchestra,
maestro Sperber commissioned
numerous world premieres
from Israeli composers and was
recognized with awards such as the
Order of Merit from the
Israeli Composers Association
(1987) and the
National Council for the
Arts and Culture Prize for the
Performance of Israeli Music (1992).

Stanley Sperber

in a letter to the composer
Peter Huebner:

“It was great pleasure to meet with you and to have the opportunity to speak together as well as listen to excerpts from your symphonies.

The music intrigued me, especially your unique manner of combining orchestral and vocal forces into one organic entity.

As Music Director of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra as well as the National Choir of Israel – Rinat – I would like to express my interest in
the possibility of performing and recording one of your three symphonies with the above mentioned orchestra and choir.

My heartiest congratulations on your formidable musical accomplishments.”

Stanley Sperber

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