William Eddins is the music director emeritus of the Edmonton Symphony and a frequent guest conductor of major orchestras throughout the world. His engagements have included appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the St. Louis Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. He made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in April 2002. Internationally, Mr. Eddins was principal guest conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony in Ireland. He has also has led the Berlin Staatskapelle, the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Welsh National Opera, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Adelaide Symphony, the Barcelona Symphony, and the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra.

Mr. Eddins’s career highlights include taking the Edmonton Symphony to Carnegie Hall in May 2012, conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI on Italian television, and leading the ZwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic on tour in South Africa with soprano Renée Fleming. Equally at home with opera, he has conducted a full production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with the Opera de Lyon both in France and at the Edinburgh Festival.

Mr. Eddins is an accomplished pianist and chamber musician. He regularly conducts from the keyboard works by Mozart, Beethoven, Gershwin, and Ravel. He has released a compact disc recording on his own label that includes Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 (“Hammerklavier”) and William Albright’s “The Nightmare Fantasy Rag” from The Dream Rags. Mr. Eddins has performed at the Ravinia Festival with both the Chicago Symphony and the Ravinia Festival Orchestra. He has also conducted the orchestras of the Aspen Music Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, the Chautauqua Festival, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.