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Damon Gupton
Conductor

Damon Gupton is the first-ever principal guest conductor of the Cincinnati Pops. A native of Detroit, he served as American Conducting Fellow of the Houston Symphony and assistant conductor of the Kansas City Symphony. His conducting appearances include the Boston Pops; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; the Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, Baltimore, National, St. Louis, Princeton, and Sphinx symphonies; the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo; and Tokyo’s NHK Orchestra. Other musical collaborations include work with Sting, Marcus Miller, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Common, Leslie Odom, Jr., Byron Stripling, Tony DeSare, the Midtown Men, Kenn Hicks, Jamie Cullum, and Massamba Diop in Marvel Studios’s Black Panther in Concert. He made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut conducting Black Panther in 2023.

Mr. Gupton has been featured as a narrator in many performances, including Wynton Marsalis’s The Ever Fonky Lowdown with Juilliard Jazz, as well as appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra; the Grand Teton and Grant Park music festivals; the Detroit, St. Louis, Colorado, Houston, and Memphis symphonies; the Cincinnati Pops; and on the Videmus recording Fare Ye Well. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Michigan. He studied conducting with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin at the Aspen Music Festival and with Leonard Slatkin at the National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C.  

An accomplished actor, Mr. Gupton is a graduate of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School. He has had regular roles in such series as The Big Door Prize, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Black Lightning, Criminal Minds, The Player, The Divide, Prime Suspect, Deadline, Strange Brew, and Finkleman. He appears in the upcoming film Lear Rex with Al Pacino and The Drama, directed by Kristoffer Borgli, as well as Damien Chazelle’s Academy Award–winning films Whiplash and La La Land. His stage appearances include the Tony Award–winning Broadway production of Clybourne Park, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Superior Donuts, and Othello. 

Damon Gupton
Conductor

Damon Gupton is the first-ever principal guest conductor of the Cincinnati Pops. A native of Detroit, he served as American Conducting Fellow of the Houston Symphony and assistant conductor of the Kansas City Symphony. His conducting appearances include the Boston Pops; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; the Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, Baltimore, National, St. Louis, Princeton, and Sphinx symphonies; the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo; and Tokyo’s NHK Orchestra. Other musical collaborations include work with Sting, Marcus Miller, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Common, Leslie Odom, Jr., Byron Stripling, Tony DeSare, the Midtown Men, Kenn Hicks, Jamie Cullum, and Massamba Diop in Marvel Studios’s Black Panther in Concert. He made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut conducting Black Panther in 2023.

Mr. Gupton has been featured as a narrator in many performances, including Wynton Marsalis’s The Ever Fonky Lowdown with Juilliard Jazz, as well as appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra; the Grand Teton and Grant Park music festivals; the Detroit, St. Louis, Colorado, Houston, and Memphis symphonies; the Cincinnati Pops; and on the Videmus recording Fare Ye Well. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Michigan. He studied conducting with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin at the Aspen Music Festival and with Leonard Slatkin at the National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C.  

An accomplished actor, Mr. Gupton is a graduate of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School. He has had regular roles in such series as The Big Door Prize, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Black Lightning, Criminal Minds, The Player, The Divide, Prime Suspect, Deadline, Strange Brew, and Finkleman. He appears in the upcoming film Lear Rex with Al Pacino and The Drama, directed by Kristoffer Borgli, as well as Damien Chazelle’s Academy Award–winning films Whiplash and La La Land. His stage appearances include the Tony Award–winning Broadway production of Clybourne Park, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Superior Donuts, and Othello.