David Leibowitz, Conductor

David Leibowitz
Conductor

David Leibowitz is the founder and Music Director of the highly acclaimed New York Repertory Orchestra (now beginning its 13th season). He has been the Principal Conductor of the Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra since 2003, and was the conductor of the Third Street Philharmonia at the Third Street Music School Settlement in New York City from 2003-2005. Mr. Leibowitz has been on the conducting staff of the Rome Festival (Italy), leading opera, ballet, and concert performances since 2002.

Mr. Leibowitz has led concert, opera, and ballet performances throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, with such ensembles as the Orchester Pro Arte (Vienna), The Masterplayers Orchestra (Switzerland), the Orquestra Sinfonico de la Ciudad de Mexico, the Bach Festival Orchestra (Princeton, NJ), and the Brooklyn Opera and Dance Theater. He has directed the Pleven (Bulgaria) Philharmonic and his performances with that ensemble were critically hailed as “exciting” and “heartfelt.” In the New York metropolitan area, he has appeared with the Greenwich Village Orchestra, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Centre Symphony Orchestra, Gemini Youth Orchestra, and “Music at St. Paul’s” (at Columbia University). He has been invited back to these ensembles and venues repeatedly.

Mr. Leibowitz received his Master of Arts degree, Summa Cum Laude, from the City University of New York’s Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. His main studies were in performance and musicology. While there, he was awarded a teaching fellowship and was named a Presidential Scholar of the University. He has continued his conducting studies with, among others, Herbert Blomstedt, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Jacques-Louis Monod. Mr. Leibowitz was a finalist in the International Masterplayers’ Conducting Competition in Lugano, Switzerland in 1986.