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John Larry Granger, Music Director |
John Larry Granger is in his seventeenth season as Music Director of the Santa Cruz County Symphony. Maestro Granger served for nine years as the Music Director of the South Coast Symphony Orchestra in Costa Mesa and was the conductor of the Pomona College Orchestra from 1989-91. He has been a featured guest conductor with the New Haven Symphony, San Jose Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, and Springfield Symphony, among others. His theatre production work has included Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures,” for which he received the Drama Logue Award for Musical Direction. Deeply devoted to music education, Granger conducts the orchestras of Youth Music Monterey and the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony. He also has served as conductor for the “Evening of Concertos,” a series of professional symphony concerts featuring young solo artists as Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Maestro Granger is in his fifth year as Music Director/ Conductor of the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre Orchestra. Granger attended the International Institute for Orchestral Conducting from 1979-81 and did private study in Dresden with Herbert Blomstedt, Music Director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony. After receiving his Masters degree in Music from California State University, Long Beach, Granger attended the University of Southern California as a DMA candidate. Born in New York, Granger began his career as an oboist and English horn player.
Maestro Granger is generously sponsored by
Peggy Minier & Mission Industrial Land