With a contagious smile and captivating charm, conductor, trumpet virtuoso, singer, and actor Byron Stripling ignites audiences across the globe. In 2024, Stripling was named Stein Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He also currently serves as principal pops conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and artistic director and conductor of … Continued
Now in his fourth season with the MSO and his second as its associate conductor, Ryan Tani has built a reputation for inventive programming, as well as an energetic connection with audiences in Milwaukee and beyond. With the MSO, he conducts a wide range of concerts — including education, family, film, popular, and classical — … Continued
Dr. Cheryl Frazes Hill is in her 10th season as director of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus. Among the many works she has prepared with the chorus, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and ninth symphony, and Handel’s Messiah were most recently performed to celebrate the chorus’s 50th anniversary season. Frazes Hill has also prepared … Continued
Timothy Benson has been the assistant director of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus since 1994 and has prepared the chorus for a number of its performances. He has served as director of music and organist at several churches since playing his first mass at age 10. A Milwaukee native, he began playing the piano at the … Continued