Lawrence Golan

Lawrence Golan is an American orchestral conductor, composer, and violinist. He is the Helen N. Jewett Music Director & Conductor of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra in Washington state, the Jody & Louis Appell, Jr. Music Director & Conductor of the York Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, and conductor of the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, where he is also director of orchestral studies and professor of conducting. In 2024, he was named the Official Conductor of the Concurso Internacional de Piano Compositores de España in Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain. Golan is also music director laureate of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, following an 11-year tenure as music director, during which he led the orchestra on international tours and established its annual International Conducting Workshop, Concert, and Competition. He has conducted orchestras in 28 U.S. states and 24 countries worldwide, including China, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrenc...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)