Director
David A. Grunberg, dynamic and versatile conductor, violinist, and composer, is founder and director of the Spectrum Symphony of New York.
With Spectrum he commissioned and premiered Peter Alexander's concerto for violin and orchestra, with Katie Lansdale as soloist, and created other innovative programs.
As a guest conductor David is often invited back for repeat engagements. Previous engagements include the Orchestra of the 92nd St. Y, the Centre Symphony, the New England Philharmonic, among others. Among European appearances he conducted in the opera house in Cortona, Italy, and performed on violin in the Esterházy palace hall in Eisenstadt and the Mariahilf Chapel in Andermatt, Switzerland.
David has conducted in master classes with Kenneth Kiesler and Gustav Meier, at the Conductors Institute with Harold Farberman, under Jeffrey Rink in Boston, and at the Pierre Monteux School. From 1994 to 1998 he was Assistant Conductor of the New England Philharmonic, an orchestra awarded multiple ASCAP prizes for adventuresome programming.
Involved in education, David served as adjudicator for the American String Teachers Association (NJ), and he was Music Director, conductor and chamber music coach of the Cape and Islands Youth Symphony Orchestras (MA), who under his direction were "renown for their expertise and voracity" (Art Talks).
Artists
Beverly Butrie, soprano, is a singing actress with a voice of surprising size and beauty. She recently performed Leonora in Il Trovatore with the Westside Opera Society of NYC. Bruce-Michale Gelbert of New York Q News wrote of her performance as Anina in La Sonnambula – a colorful soprano encompassing a bright high range and low register of dark, almost mezzo-soprano timbre…Butrie’s instrument took on an eerie purity… after a creamy legato, she brought the evening, punctuated by her ringing high F, to a conclusion with a brilliant “Ah! non giunge”. This past season she performed the title role of Norma with Harmony Project NYC at Carnegie Hall. She also was the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with Harmony Project NYC in April 2011.
Trumpeter Christopher Scanlon has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico and across the United States. Scanlon is currently a member of the Miami Symphony and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Boston Lyric Opera, Singapore Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Springfield Symphony, Vermont Symphony, New World Symphony, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. He has performed as a soloist with the Garden State Philharmonic and recorded new music with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Callithumpian Consort. As a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center he was the recipient of the Roger Voisin Award and has also performed at Spoleto USA, Banff and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. Scanlon was a student of Mark Gould at the Manhattan School of Music, Marie Speziale at Rice University, and Thomas Rolfs at Boston University.