David Hoose

David Hoose has been Music Director of Collage New Music for thirty-two years. He had a long Professorial engagement at Boston University, where he was the School of Music Director of Orchestras and taught orchestral conducting for twenty-nine years, and is Music Director Emeritus of Cantata Singers & Ensemble, which he led for thirty-eight seasons. For eleven years, he also served as Music Director of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Hoose is winner of the Czech Republic’s Silver Jan Masaryk Honorary Medal, the Ditson Conductors Award for the Advancement of American Music, the Choral Arts New England Lifetime Achievement Award, and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming. His recording with Collage New Music of John Harbison’s Mottetti di Montale was a Grammy Nominee for “Best Recording with Small Ensemble, With or Without Conductor.” With the Emmanuel Wind Quintet, of which he was the hornist, he was winner of the 1981 Walter W. Naumburg Award for Chamber Music. David Hoose has appeared as guest conductor with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, St. Louis Symphony, Utah Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, Symphony New Hampshire, and Handel & Haydn Society.

In Boston, he has conducted Emmanuel Music (numerous times), Fromm Chamber Players, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (numerous times), Lexington Symphony, Dinosaur Annex, and Alea III. He has also appeared as guest conductor at the Tanglewood, Monadnock, Warebrook, and New Hampshire music festivals.