Michael REPPER
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GRAMMY-winning conductor Michael Repper is one of the most sought after young directors in the world. With work spanning six continents, Repper has an international reputation for engaging and exciting audiences of all spectrums, and for promoting new and diverse musical talents. He is the youngest North American conductor, and the second youngest of all time, to win a GRAMMY in Best Orchestral Performance.
Michael Repper is the Music Director of the Ashland Symphony Orchestra and Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. From 2020 to 2022, he was the Principal Conductor of Sinfonía por el Perú, one of South America's most versatile social impact music programmes, and he recently concluded his tenure as Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Recognising his success at these ensembles, and his growing profile as an international guest conductor and as a past Conducting Fellow of the Baltimore Symphony, Repper was awarded a Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
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“Three cheers for this most enjoyable collection … spruce and infectiously committed advocacy from the Maryland-based National Philharmonic at Strathmore under Michael Repper … Curtis Stewart is the stylish soloist … Boasting eminently truthful sound, this enterprising release is certainly worth seeking out”
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His album with the New York Youth Symphony, which includes debut recordings of works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery and Valerie Coleman, won the 2023 GRAMMY for Best Orchestral Performance and reached #1 on the Billboard Chart. Repper’s August 2025 studio album with the National Philharmonic, which features world premiere recordings of works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, received tremendous acclaim, 2026 GRAMMY nominations for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Classical Instrumental Solo, and was Sirius XM’s “Album of the Week”.
Michael Repper opened the National Philharmonic’s 2025/2026 season at Strathmore Center, and other recent engagements included debuts with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Porto Alegre Symphony, Xi’an Symphony, Richmond Symphony, and the KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg Philharmonics. April 2026 saw Repper’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (a recording project at Abbey Road). Highlights of 2026/2027 and beyond include multi concert returns to Brazil and South Africa, his symphonic debut in Berlin, and a major Walton and Alwyn recording project in London, as well as performances of major repertoire by Shostakovich, Berlioz, Holst, Dvorak, Florence Price and Ruth Gipps with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony and Ashland Symphony in the US.
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"There is no better gift than a magnificent new recording that brings a few lost gems to a world that, until now, has rarely had the opportunity to hear them”
Strings Magazine
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Dvorak/Tchaikovsky/Mahler - with Budapest Symphony
Coleridge-Taylor world premiere recordings (August 2025) - with National Philharmonic
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“The National Philharmonic plays the program colourfully and vividly, not neglecting the composer’s lyrical romanticism”
"Confidence and Expressive Nuance”
Baltimore Sun
