News and Announcements
Catherine Anne Sailer named Music Director and Conductor
The Littleton Symphony Orchestra announced its new Music Director and Conductor, Dr. Catherine Sailer beginning with the 2022-2023 season. Maestra Sailer was selected after an extensive search following the retirement of Maestro Jurgen de Lemos.
Catherine Sailer is director of choral studies at the University of Denver, associate conductor of the Colorado Ballet Orchestra, conductor of The Evans Choir, and music director of the Littleton Symphony Orchestra. Orchestral conducting credits include the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Santa Fe Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Shanghai International Choral League, National Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra. She has also prepared choirs for the Milwaukee Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Central City Opera, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra and conducted choral-orchestral festivals at Carnegie Hall, Vox Anima London, Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Shanghai, Rome and Curitiba Brazil. She won the Dale Warland Award for choral performance, first place in the American Prize for choral performance, the Robert Shaw Award from Chorus America, and second prize in the International Barenreiter Choral Competition.
History of the Littleton Symphony Orchestra
The Littleton Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of maestro Jurgen de Lemos, became one of the premier orchestras in the Denver Metro area. The orchestra performs repertoire normally associated with professional orchestras, and does it well. In the past several years the Littleton Symphony Orchestra has programmed symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mahler, as well as the Verdi and Brahms requiems, Strauss tone poems, and works by Debussy, Stravinsky, Ginastera, Ives, Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, among others, and has collaborated with the Denver Zoo in a performance of Babar the Elephant.