Guest Conductor
Timothy James Bergman
Timothy James Bergman received degrees from Stetson University, the University of Connecticut, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Miami. He was assistant conductor of the Baton Rouge Symphony during 1995-2001 and guest conducted orchestras such as the Alabama Symphony, Austin Symphony, and the Rose City Chamber Orchestra in Portland, Oregon. He also served as guest faculty conductor of the University of Connecticut and the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
Dr. Bergman is in his 22nd year as a music director of youth orchestras and held positions with the Greater Miami Youth Symphonies and Louisiana Youth Orchestras in Baton Rouge. In 2001-2012, he was music director of the Gulf Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra, an educational program of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra (MS). Currently, he is founder and music director of The Rockestra Revolution, an innovative orchestra program in collaboration with the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center.
He also serves on the adjunct faculty of Tulane University’s School of Continuing Studies (MS Coast) and the Jefferson Davis Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
As an administrator, Dr. Bergman served as executive director of the Louisiana Alliance for Arts Education, a member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, and the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Conservatory of Music in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was executive director of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra in 2007-2012.
Dr. Bergman has studied with such noted conductors as Akira Endo, Harold Farberman, David Gray, Samuel Jones, William LaRue Jones, Paul Phillips, Donald Portnoy, and Thomas Sleeper. His wife, Susan, is a board-certified music therapist.