BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 4: ABOUT THE ARTISTS Joseph Young, conductor Joseph Young is Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony, Artistic Director of Ensembles for the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, and Resident Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra–USA at Carnegie Hall. This is his debut with the North Carolina Symphony. In his most recent role, Joseph served as the Assistant Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, where he conducted more than 50 concerts per season and served as the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Previous appointments have included Resident Conductor of the Phoenix Symphony, and a League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellowship with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He has made appearances in the United States and Europe including the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Joseph is a recipient of the 2015 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, an award he also won in 2008 and 2014. In 2013, he was a semi-finalist in the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition (Bamberg, Germany). In 2011, he was one of six conductors featured in the League of American Orchestras’ Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview. He completed
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graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory in 2009, earning an artist’s diploma in conducting. Rebekah Daley, horn The Mary T. McCurdy Chair Rebekah Daley won her position as Principal Horn of the North Carolina Symphony while pursuing her graduate work at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, studying with William VerMeulen. She previously earned her bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Jerome Ashby and Jennifer Montone, after joining the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra as a highschool sophomore. In 2016 she was featured as a soloist with the North Carolina Symphony performing the Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2. Also an avid chamber musician, Rebekah has spent several summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. Other summer festivals include Twickenhamfest, Music Academy of the West, National Repertory Orchestra, Sarasota Summer Music Festival, and Colorado College Festival. In 2014, she released an album with the Southern Bells, a horn quartet she formed with friends. She has performed with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Symphony in C in Camden, New Jersey.