Robert Vodnoy is the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota which he founded in 2017. He is also the conductor and music director of the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra.

Music Director Vodnoy has guest-conducted numerous orchestras throughout the world, including the Symphony Orchestra of the Zhejiang Song and Dance Theatre (China), the Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo (Italy), the Czech National Symphony and the Seoul Philharmonic, just to name a little of what he’s done. Professor Vodnoy was the long-tenured music director of the Southwest Michigan Symphony and the Northwest Indiana Symphony. He also holds a BM summa cum laude and an MM in composition from the University of Hartford.

Soloist Joseph Kingma is the first-prize winner of the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition.

Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto is arranged for piano and string orchestra and will be the featured work in the March 16 concert.