Lance
Inouye, associate conductor of the St. Petersburg Chamber
Philharmonic, also currently holds the position of Conducting
Assistant with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in the
United States.
His guest conducting engagements in Russia include the St. Petersburg
State Symphony Orchestra "Klassika", the St. Petersburg
Congress Orchestra, the Karelia Philharmonic (Petrozavodsk),
and the Sochi Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with
soloists of the Mariinsky Theater-Kirov Opera as well as soloists
of the St. Petersburg and Moscow State Conservatories. In the
U.S., Lance has been guest conductor with the Honolulu Symphony
Orchestra, the Brevard Repertory Orchestra in North Carolina,
Music Director of the World Journal Youth Orchestra (New York),
Assistant Conductor of the Queens College Orchestra (New York),
conductor of the Chamber Orchestra at the Aaron Copland School
of Music, and Assistant Conductor of the College-Conservatory
of Music Philharmonia and Concert Orchestras in Cincinnati. Active
in contemporary music, Mr. Inouye has conducted a number of world
premieres in New York's Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall,
the Colden Center and Le Frak Concert Hall.
Lance Inouye is currently completing his Doctorate of Musical
Arts studies in orchestral conducting at the College-Conservatory
of Music,
University
of
Cincinnati and received a post-graduate certificate in Russia
from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory Rimsky-Korsakov.
In addition, he holds a Masters degree in orchestral conducting
from Queens College of the City University of New York and a
B.M. from Berklee College of Music, where he studied jazz piano
and composition. His principal conducting teachers have been
Mark Gibson, Maurice Peress, and Leonid Korchmar.