GLENN QUADER

MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

A native of Washington, DC, Glenn Quader is continually gaining national recognition as a dynamic and versatile conductor. Equally adept in the classical, jazz, and popular idioms, he appears extensively as a conductor, performer, and session musician in the United States and Europe, placing him in consistently high demand both on concert stages and in recording studios.

This year marks marks Mr. Quader’s fifth season as Music Director of the Frederick Symphony Orchestra. He continues in other positions as Music Director of the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra, and in 2018, a return to the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras as Conductor of their Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Quader also serves as Conductor of the American Studio Orchestra, which has enjoyed residencies at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Institute College of Art, and ARTSCAPE.

Mr. Quader’s international guest conducting includes programs with the Czech Republic’s Czech Virtuosi and Czech Moravian Chamber Orchestra, Hungary’s Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra and Romania’s Bacau and Brasov philharmonic orchestras. In the US, he has led the Symphonies of Memphis and Nashville, Tuscaloosa, and Fairfax. Past positions include Conductor of the American Youth Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Associate/Resident Conductor of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Frederick and Columbia Orchestras, Music Director/Conductor of the Potomac Valley Youth Orchestra and Broward Symphony Orchestras, and Founder/Artistic Director of the Florida Youth Conservatory.

Along with a rigorous conducting schedule, Mr. Quader is an in-demand electric/synth bassist for studios and large scale festivals. He has been developing high end bass synth systems for the last several years and recently acquired the very first synth bass built by Rob O’Reilly Guitars (Ireland). The design uses a groundbreaking tracking system not available to bassists until now. This year he will premiere this instrument in several performances.

Mr. Quader studied at the Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University and the universities of Indiana, Illinois, Miami and Florida International, and holds a conducting diploma, awarded by Sicily’s Catania International Conducting Institute. His principal conducting teachers have included the late Gustav Meier, Ovidiu Balan, Robert Gutter, and James Brooks-Bruzzese, while intensive workshops were undertaken with Marin Alsop, Jorma Panula, James Litton, Larry Rachleff, and David Loebel.