Tiffany Lu, Guest Conductor

Tiffany Lu

Guest Conductor, Holiday POPS!

Conductor Tiffany Lu returns to SNH to guest conduct our ever popular Holiday Pops!

The newly-appointed Director of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra (and Assistant Professor), currently serves as Interim Music Director of the Pierre Monteux School and Music Festival in Hancock, Maine through the 2023 season, having served for five seasons as Associate Conductor. Amongst her prior posts are Music Director, Wilmington Community Orchestra and Music Director, University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra. She has also served as cover conductor with the Elgin and Princeton Symphony Orchestras, the Georgetown and Cornell University Orchestra, and Symphony NH. Recently, she also served as lead producer on two recordings by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra as well as one with the Smithsonian Chamber Players.

Q&A with Tiffany Lu

What music are you listening to currently?

Sammy Rae and The Friends (jazz-funk-rock) DOMi & JD Beck (new-age jazz duo) Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2

Favorite composer? Brahms Favorite memory of a performance?

I don’t know if this is my *favorite*, but in one performance of the Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien, my glasses flew off my head at the final chord and landed on the podium. I had no idea where they went. It was all anyone could talk about afterwards, and I was a little peeved about that for a while but eventually I decided I just needed to embrace the fact that this was what had made the performance memorable!

First piece you conducted: Dvorak Symphony No. 7, 3rd mvt.

What is a record you cherish?

The Stern/Lin/Laredo/Robinson/Tree/Ma recording of the Brahms B-flat Sextet was my alarm clock for several years in middle school. To this day that recording feels like “good morning” to me.

If you weren’t a musician, you’d be... Architect or writer What is your favorite piece in the Holiday Pops concert?

Charlie Brown Christmas. A timeless and brilliant expression of the holidays’ simultaneous warmth of gathering and the melancholy of passing time.

What is coming up next for you? I’ve just started a new job at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL as director of the Symphony Orchestra. Go Gators! Music is... every adjective in the world!