These concerts are the fifth appearance by Timothy Myers on the North Carolina Symphony podium. Most recently, he conducted a program for strings in 2021 featuring works by Elgar, Walker, Philip Glass, and Grieg.
In 2021/22, Timothy Myers leads The Marriage of Figaro, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, and Fidelio at Austin Opera, where he serves as the Sarah and Ernest Butler Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor. Other activities include a subscription debut with the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera. He also begins a tenure as a faculty member and advisor to the Valissima Institute, a conducting intensive developed for female pre-college instrumentalists.
Myers’ Austin tenure began in the 2020/21 season with a concert featuring Isabel Leonard, filmed for broadcast on PBS, and Tosca at the Circuit of the Americas amphitheater. He also filmed David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s Vinkensport at Houston Grand Opera and a subscription concert with the North Carolina Symphony.
In opera, recent highlights include the Santa Fe Opera leading Bizet’s Les pêcheurs des perles, West Side Story at Houston Grand Opera, the Rising Stars concert at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Don Quichotte at the Wexford Festival (his third appearance there), and a concert version of Act III of Siegfried at North Carolina Opera.
A protégé of Lorin Maazel, Myers’ symphonic engagements have included the American, Jerusalem, Milwaukee, North Carolina, Portland (Maine), and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Malaysian, Johannesburg, and Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestras.
Myers formerly held the posts of Principal Guest Conductor at Opera Africa and Artistic and Music Director of North Carolina Opera, where his work inspired a precipitous rise in the performance standard and the forging of collaborations with diverse artists and institutions.
In June of 2021, Myers graduated from the Program for Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He was also named to the Recording Academy Class of 2021. He resides with his family in Raleigh and serves as a board member of the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh (CAM).
