About Douglas Meyer

Douglas Meyer is the founding Music Director and Conductor of the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra. His guest conducting appearances have included invitations to lead the Bohuslav Martinu Phiharmonie in the Czech Republic, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchestra in Mannheim, the Altoona Symphony, the Spokane Symphony, the Shenandoah Summer Music Festival, the Brevard Summer Festival, the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, and the South Arkansas Symphony. Recently Meyer made his Latin America debut with the Symphony Orchestra of the State of Mexico performing music of Wagner, Saint-Saens and Sibelius.

His repertoire from public performances includes more than 350 orchestral, oratorio and fully-staged operatic works. He has also served as a teacher of conducting at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and at The Pennsylvania State University. On tour with the Luther College Symphony Orchestra, Meyer has led concerts in Budapest, Prague, Paris, Stuttgart and Munich, and in Vienna led the Viennese premiere of Howard Hanson's Second Symphony and William Schuman's Song of Orpheus in the Konzerthaus.

Recently he conducted the world premiere performance of Paul & Virginie, libretto by Jean Cocteau and music by Charles Kalman, in Washington DC at the invitation of the French Ambassador and under the auspices of the Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Deeply committed to the performance of music in a variety of forms he has served as Music Director and Conductor of the Dorian Opera Theatre in Iowa, Conductor of the Rochester Light Opera in Rochester, Minnesota, and Music Director of the Southwest Symphony in Arizona, the Salisbury Symphony in North Carolina, the Old York Road Symphony in Philadelphia, and the Cincinnati Civic and Civic Youth Orchestra in Ohio.