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Pratik Gandhi - Guest Conductor

Pratik Gandhi will appear with Symphony Hamilton~Symphony on the Bay as Assistant Conductor for the November 7, 2010 concert "Celebrating Fifteen" and as Guest Conductor for the June 19, 2011 concert "Music Through the Ages."

Pratik Gandhi, a native of Markham, Ontario, holds degrees in music education (B.Mus.) and conducting (M.Mus.) from the University of Western Ontario. He maintains a very busy schedule as a conductor, percussionist, drummer, composer/arranger, and clinician. In his young career, he has conducted orchestras (including the Windsor Symphony in 2008), wind bands, chamber works (Histoire du Soldat, 2008), musicals (Sweeney Todd, 2006), operas (Suor Angelica, 2008), and choirs, and has given numerous premieres of new works (notably Jodi Vander Woude's Quiet you with my love, for soprano, women's chorus, and orchestra, in 2008). With Pratik as its music director, Soup Can Theatre's inaugural production, Love is a Poverty You Can Sell, was selected to be part of the Best of Fringe showcase at the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival. Pratik also serves as assistant conductor and principal percussionist of both the Richmond Hill Philharmonic Orchestra and the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra.