Edward Polochick
Director of Choral Activities
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.M. (piano), M.M. (conducting), Peabody Conservatory. Studied with Leon Fleisher, Anne Vanko Liva, Clement Petrillo (piano); Michael Korn, William Smith, Theodore Morrison (conducting). Recipient, Leopold Stokowski Conducting Award. Music director, Lincoln (Nebraska) Symphony Orchestra. Founding and artistic director, Concert Artists of Baltimore. former Director, Baltimore Symphony Chorus, Baltimore Symphony Chamber Singers, 1979-99. Conductor at Musicisti Americana, Sulmona, Italy, in summer 1987. Conductor for Peabody Orchestra concerts in Moscow in November 1987, which resulted in an ASCAP award for adventuresome programming of American music. Conducting appearances with the Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Aalborg Symphony of Denmark, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Frequent guest lecturer, adjudicator, and radio commentator. Recipient of the Peggy and Yale Gordon Achievement Award in May, 2000; JHU Distinguished Alumni Award in December 2002.
