(See list and description of 25 concert events now available.)

What's doing now:

Currently conductor of the San Diego Symphony 4 concert"Light Bulb" series (Illuminations format): '02-03, '03-04, '04-05..............
Audio Excerpt From San Diego Symphony

        Maestro Sidlin's 2004 Concert Schedule

Writer, Conductor-narrator for the national PBS production of DEFIANT REQUIEM, seen over 250 stations in August of 2003, receiving wide-critical  acclaim.
  (see reviews)

Leonard Bernstein's MASS More performances than any conductor, including twice in Vilnius, Lithuania (Eastern Europe premiere), Slovenia, Germany,  Washington, Minneapolis, Aspen, Portland, as well as excerpts to re-open the  refurbished Kennedy Center Opera House, November.'03. Audio Excerpt  From Kennedy Center   Press Review

Transcribed Copland's only complete opera THE TENDER LAND for chamber  ensemble; conducted more than 120 performances, receiving major acclaim for the recording on Koch International Classics.

Listen to Excerpt (2400k MP3 file from the recording)

Recently conducted a 9th consecutive New Year's Eve Gala with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center.

Conducted 68 performance of Marc Blizstein's opera REGINA at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater.

Conducted the American staged premiere of Szymanowki's KING ROGER at the Long Beach Opera.

Sponsored by the Chevron Corporation, gave over 50 concerts nationally with 48 orchestras in collaboration with photo-choreographer James Westwater of the music of Aaron Copland.

Conducted 7 performances of Astor Piazzolla's Tango opera, MARIA OF BUENOS AIRES.

This summer at Aspen he will perform his own concert drama," Russian David, Soviet Goliath: Shostakovich vs. Stalin-- The Psycho-drama and Battlefield of The 5th Symphony".

In May of 2004, he will present his own concert drama," Sigmund Freud and the Dreams of Gustav Mahler" at the San Diego Symphony.

Guest Conductor and Host and Innovator of Concert Presentations:

Baltimore Symphony, National Symphony, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Boston Pops, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Quebec Symphony, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, I Solisti Veneti, Madrid Radio/Television Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Utah Symphony, San Antonio Symphony and Opera, Honolulu Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Wichita Symphony,The Florida Philharmonic, The
Florida Orchestra, The Lithuanian National Philharmonic, Gavleborg Orkester of Sweden, Lindberg Orchestra of Holland, Tulsa Philharmonic, and numerous others.

Positions with Orchestras:

New Haven Symphony, Music Director....12 years
Long Beach Symphony, Music Director 8 years,
Oregon Symphony, Resident Conductor, 8 years
Gavleborg Orkester of Sweden, Principal Guest Conductor, 3 seasons

Baltimore Symphony, assistant conductor under Sergiu Comissiona
National Symphony, resident conductor under Antal Dorati

Television:

TODAY SHOW on NBC---2 appearances
CBS SUNDAY MORNING--- appearance and rebroadcast 4 times
ABC GOOD MORNING AMERICA

MUSIC IS.... a 10 part series about music for children on PBS national
network (co-writer, conductor and host of the series)

FANFARE, Host for award winning cable TV interview program over Oregon cable network: 47 programs.

DEFIANT REQUIEM- writer, conductor, narrator for award winning PBS special.

Aspen Music Festival: resident performer and teacher: associate director of America Academy of Conducting at Aspen, with music director David Zinman.

Maestro Sidlin's 2004 -2005 Concert Schedule

Feb. 19, 21	Flamenco, The Darkness and the Passion, San Diego Symphony
April 17, 18	DEFIANT REQUIEM, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
May 15	Sigmund Freud and the Dreams of Gustav Mahler, San Diego Symphony
June 7, 8	Recording of MARIA OF BUENOS AIRES by Piazzolla with The Third Angle New Music Ensemble
July 3	Suite from the Tender Land, Aspen Music Festival
August 8	ILLUMINATIONS: Russian David/Soviet Goliath (Shostakovich vs. Stalin) Aspen Music Festival
August 21	Can A Symphony Orchestra Explode?  Cascade Festival of Music
August 23	The Russian Soul III.... Cascade Festival of Music
August 25	Of Music and Nations.... Cascade Festival of Music
August 28	The American Muse.... Cascade Festival of Music
Nov. 8, 9	DEFIANT REQUIEM, Nazareth College and Rochester Philharmonic
Nov. 15, 17	DEFIANT REQUIEM, Nazareth College and Rochester Philharmonic
Dec. 31	A 10TH CONSECUTIVE NEW YEARS EVE GALA with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center
	Other San Diego Symphony  ILLUMINATION events 2004 Gypsy Fire Le Jazz Hot Can Classical Music Be Funny
	2005 Concert Schedule
June	Lindberg Orkester in Maastricht, Holland
	Light Bulb Concerts (see San Diego Symphony)

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