Music Director Michael Butterman

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Since 2007, Michael Butterman has served as Music Director of the Boulder Philharmonic, leading the orchestra with a commitment to artistic excellence, innovative programming, and meaningful community engagement. Under his leadership, the Boulder Phil has earned national recognition, including an invitation to open the SHIFT Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He also serves as Music Director of the Shreveport Symphony and Williamsburg Symphony.

A sought-after guest conductor, Butterman has appeared with many of the nation's leading orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Houston Symphony, as well as numerous other orchestras throughout North America. His work has been featured on nationwide broadcasts of Performance Today, and he is a recipient of the prestigious Seiji Ozawa Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center.

In addition to his conducting career, Butterman is an accomplished opera conductor and recording artist whose work has appeared on multiple nationally distributed recordings. He is represented by Cadenza Artists and is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMY Awards®).

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A Conductor of Distinction and National Acclaim

“Butterman’s enthusiasm and dedication to the interpretative details of the works programmed signaled good times ahead. Articulate and talented, with exceptionally clean, crisp and musically sensitive baton work, Butterman proved to have the right stuff for top-drawer music making, right from the start…”

The Virginia Gazette