ACCOLADES

"Nan Washburn [is] a conductor of many musical gifts...a rare presence...who has earned the right to stand on the podiums in front of our finest orchestras."

HAROLD FARBERMAN
Director, Leopold Stokowski Competition
Director/Founder, Conductors Institute


"I’ve been impressed by the wide-ranging scope of her knowledge, her warm rapport with her players and colleagues, and most important, her ability to convey clear musical messages to an orchestra through her precise conducting technique and communicative body language. She’s a joy to perform concertos with!"

SHARON ROBINSON
Solo Artist & Cellist with Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

"I'm very impressed with you as a conductor and as a music director....I loved what you did with The Encantadas and I thought the orchestra played it wonderfully,
with understanding and emotion."
TOBIAS PCKER
Former Composer in Residence, Houston Symphony


"[Nan Washburn] is a first rate musician....She has an impressive knowledge of the repertory, taste and imagination in program planning."

MICHAEL STEINBERG
Former Artistic Advisor
Minnesota Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony


"I cannot recommend a young conductor more highly than Nan..."

LIBBY LARSEN
Former Composer-In-Residence, Minnesota Orchestra


"[Her] accomplishments with the Camellia Symphony are really outstanding, and set a standard for orchestras throughout the country. [She is] not only to be congratulated but to be thanked as well."

DONALD THULEAN
Vice President for Orchestra Services
American Symphony Orchestra League

"If orchestras across the country would take a tip from [her] season, we would have many, many more people EXPERIENCING
the concert hall, and not merely contending with it."

MURRY SIDLIN
Resident Conductor, Oregon Symphony