Contemporary Youth Orchestra : Conductors

Liza Grossman, Music Director
Guest Conductors
Former Assistant

"Grossman led her young charges with a clear baton and they responded with enthusiastic playing that brought the audience to its feet on more than one occasion."
- Mark Satola, Free Times

Liza Grossman
Liza Grossman is the founding Music Director of the Contemporary Youth Orchestra. She is on the conducting faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and is the co-founder of the Interlochen Arts Camp Junior Advanced String Institute. She is a private violin and viola instructor and as a freelance musician, has performed, recorded and toured with artists including Bernadette Peters, Kansas, Gerald LeVert, The Three Tenors and YES. STRAD magazine has noted her as "a master of tutelage..."
     Grossman has conducted 14 world premiere concertos with Cleveland Orchestra members, national and local musicians as well as conducting 30 orchestral world premieres, all with the composers present. She has collaborated with composers including Bernard Rands, Mike Garson, Robert Ward and Joan Tower. She has conducted world premiere orchestral rock performances with rock artists Ray Manzarek (DOORS), Jon Anderson (YES), Graham Nash (CSNY), Pat Benatar and STYX.
     She holds degrees in music performance and music education. Grossman’s conducting teachers include David Holland, Alexander Schneider, Marvin Rabin and Gerard Schwarz.
     Grossman and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra have been finalists for the Governors Award for the Arts in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and are the recipients of the 2003 Northern Ohio Live Award of Achievement in the Classical Music/Opera category.

Liza Grossman is represented by

Alliance Artists Ltd.
Charlie Brusco, President
1111 Alderman Drive, Suite 285
Alpharetta, GA 30005
(770) 663-4240 Phone
(770) 663-8757 Fax
charlie@allianceartistsltd.com

Alliance Artists Ltd.
David Spero
6065 Parkland Blvd
Cleveland, OH 44124
(440) 995-6020 Phone
(440) 995-6400 Fax
david@allianceartistsltd.com

Guest Conductors
To see more details on the pieces conducted by the following guests, please visit the repertoire.
Dave Dettloff, December 13, 2003, March 18, 2000
Dennis Eberhard, June 1, 1996
David Holland, March 27, 1999
Victor Liva, March 13, 2004
Bill Ransom, December 12, 2004
P. Kellach Waddle, March 7, 1998

Former Assistant
Eric Berken     1995 - 2003