Introduction
Winner of the 2018 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award by the U.S Solti Foundation, Berlin-based American conductor, Roderick Cox, has been praised as a conductor who is “paving the way” (NBC News) and recognised as a “trailblazer…a conductor who will be amongst the vanguard” (Minnesota StarTribune). Cox has gained international attention for recent appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Grand Opera, and Philharmonia Orchestra (London).
Forthcoming highlights include his debuts with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Orchestre National de Montpellier, opera debuts at the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera (both with Il barbiere di Siviglia), and performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (at Hollywood Bowl), Cincinnati Symphony, Aspen Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, Tucson Symphony,
Highlights of the previous two seasons include performances with Philharmonie Orchestra (London), BBC Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Dresdner Philharmonie, Cleveland Orchestra (Blossom Music Festival), Minnesota Orchestra, Sphinx Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra; in the theatre, he made his opera debut at the Houston Grand Opera (Pêcheurs de Perles). Engagements cancelled as result of the COVID-19 pandemic include New York Philharmonic (Young Peoples Concerts), Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Kristiansand Symfoniorkester.
Through his passion for education and diversity and inclusion in the arts, Cox started the Roderick Cox Music Initiative (RCMI) in 2018- a project to help provide scholarship funds to young musicians of colour from unrepresented communities, allowing them to pay for instruments, music lessons, and summer camps. Cox and his new initiative be featured in an upcoming documentary called Conducting Life, premiering May 2020.
Born in Macon, Georgia, Cox attended the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, and then later attended Northwestern University graduating with a master’s degree in 2011. He was awarded the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize from the Aspen Music Festival in 2013 and has held Fellowships with the Chicago Sinfonietta as part of their Project Inclusion program and at the Chautauqua Music Festival, where he was a David Effron Conducting Fellow. Roderick Cox was appointed as Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra under conductor Osmo Vänskä in 2016 for three seasons having previously served as assistant conductor for a year.
Video & Audio
Performance Schedule
- More info 20:00 05 Feb 2021 Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum, MONTPELLIER
SAMUEL BARBER Essay No.2
JENNIFER HIGDON Violin Concerto
Interval
GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings
JOHN ADAMS Doctor Atomic SymphonyConductor: Roderick Cox
Violin: Benjamin Beilman
:: Orchestre National de Montpellier