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Kenneth Woods was born on 1968, is an American conductor, composer and cellist. Discover Kenneth Woods's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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1921

Sawyers' Third Symphony also became the first work in the ESO's 21st Century Project, an effort to commissions nine new symphonies by leading composers.

Subsequent works in the series have included David Matthews' Ninth Symphony and the Fifth Symphony of Matthew Taylor.

1968

Kenneth Allen Woods (born 1968) is an American conductor, composer and cellist, resident in the UK.

Woods studied conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

His subsequent conducting mentors have included Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, Jorma Panula and Gerhard Samuel.

1999

Woods was music director of the Dayton Philharmonic in 1999, of the Grande Ronde Symphony from 1999 to 2002, and of the Oregon East Symphony (OES) from 2000 to 2009.

From 1999 to 2002, he was head of conducting, strings and chamber music at Eastern Oregon University.

2000

In 2000, Zinman selected Woods to be a fellow in the inaugural class of the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen.

2001

In 2001, Slatkin chose Woods as one of four participants in the Kennedy Center National Conducting Institute.

2006

In 2006, he became a founding artist of the Clocktower Chamber Music Festival in Durango, Colorado.

2008

In 2008, he became artist-in-residence at the Ischia Chamber Music Festival.

That year he also become the founding cellist of the string trio, Ensemble Epomeo.

The trio's first CD comprised the world premiere recordings of the complete string trios of Hans Gál, coupled with those of Hans Krása.

Their next disc included string trios by Schnittke, Penderecki, Weinberg and Kurtág.

2009

In 2009, Woods was appointed principal guest conductor of the Orchestra of the Swan.

His recording projects with the Orchestra of the Swan included the first complete recording of the symphonies of Austrian composer Hans Gál, the complete symphonies of Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellan and Das Lied von der Erde (orchestrated by Schoenberg), and new works for traditional Japanese instruments and orchestra, "Springs Sounds, Spring Seas".

2012

In 2012, the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO) named Woods as artistic director of its Malvern concert series, during an interregnum period for the orchestra.

In 2012, the English Chamber Orchestra recorded his orchestration of Viktor Ullmann's Third String Quartet.

Other arrangements and orchestrations include works by Mahler, Schubert, Humperdinck and Tchaikovsky.

Woods' own music has been recorded on Avie Records.

Woods was the cellist in the second American performance of Vitkor Ullmann's Third String Quartet, following study with Henry Meyer, second violinist of the LaSalle String Quartet and a concentration camp survivor.

Inspired by Meyer's teaching and experiences, Woods has advocated the music of composers known as Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music), after its suppression during the Third Reich.

He has made recordings of music by Hans Krása, Ernst Krenek, Arnold Schönberg, Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Hans Gál.

Woods is Honorary Patron of the Hans Gál Society.

As a cellist, Woods has been a recipient of the Aspen Fellowship, the Dale Gilbert Award, the Strelow Quartet Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residency Grant.

He was the founding cellist of the Taliesin Trio and of the Masala Quartet.

2013

In 2013, the ESO elevated Woods to the post of principal conductor, and in 2015, to artistic director.

During his ESO tenure, Woods has premiered, commissioned and made recordings of new works by Robert Fokkens, David Matthews, Emily Doolittle, Tom Kraines, Kile Smith, Geoffrey Gordon, Deborah Pritchard, Stephen Gerber, Nimrod Borenstein, Toby Young, Paul Patterson, Hans Gál, Donald Fraser, James Francis Brown and Jesse Jones.

In 2013, Woods re-established the position of ESO Composer-in-Association, with John McCabe in the post.

2015

Following McCabe's death in 2015, Philip Sawyers took up the position.

Sawyers compositions for the ESO have included Songs of Loss and Regret, Fanfare, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Trumpet Concerto, Elegiac Rhapsody for Trumpet and Strings in Memory of John McCabe and his Third Symphony.

In 2015, Woods became the new artistic director of the Colorado MahlerFest, the second artistic director in the festival's history.

At the Colorado MahlerFest, Woods established a new training institute for young conductors (the Mahler Conducting Fellowship), a chair for an annual visiting composer, and an expansion of the festival's chamber music and contemporary music offerings.

Visiting composers have included David Matthews, Jesse Jones and Kurt Schwertsik.

2016

Woods led the ESO in its first full-length opera performance, of Jane Eyre by John Joubert, given its world premiere in October 2016.

2017

In 2017, Woods led the MahlerFest Orchestra in their first performance of the Deryck Cooke performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony in a new edition using revisions and corrections from Colin Matthews, David Matthews and Peter Wadl.

2018

Sawyers was succeeded in 2018 by David Matthews, whose tenure saw recordings of his Ninth Symphony, Variations for Strings and Double Concerto for Violin and Viola.

2019

In 2019, Woods and Colorado MahlerFest gave the world premiere performance of a new critical edition of Mahler's First Symphony by Breitkopf & Härtel.

Woods' orchestrations and arrangements of music by other composers includes an orchestration of Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 2, recorded with the ESO for Nimbus.

2020

In 2020, Adrian Williams took up the position.