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TYS and TYAO concerts are at the Rialto Theater.


All others
are at Urban Grace Church unless otherwise listed.

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Paul-Elliott Cobbs, DMA

According to Dr. Cobbs, the same diligence, determination, self-confidence and love needed to succeed in music is also necessary in everyday situations. This is the philosophy he brings to the Tacoma Youth Symphony Association. As Music Director, Dr. Cobbs conducts the Tacoma Youth Symphony, Tacoma Junior Youth Symphony, annual Chamber Orchestra (formerly the Bach Festival) and Peter and the Wolf  Children’s Concert. In addition to his conducting duties, Dr. Cobbs is the head of the chamber music program and leads the musical direction of the entire organization. He is also the Music Director of the Evergreen Music Festival.

In addition to his work with the Tacoma Youth Symphony Association, Dr. Cobbs is Music Director and Conductor of the Everett Philharmonic and frequent Guest Conductor and adjudicator throughout the world.  Having just returned from England where he conducted the Sussex Symphony, he has also recently completed 26 years with the Everett Symphony and 7 years as Director of Orchestras at Central Washington University and is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Everett Philharmonic.

Dr. Cobbs is also an international conductor, with conducting credits from Japan and Europe. In February 1995, he was the first American to conduct the Erzgebirge Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany. Due to the sold-out performance, three encores and seven curtain calls, Dr. Cobbs was named "Star Conductor from the U.S.A." by the Die Freie Presse.  In 1996, Dr. Cobbs was invited to conduct two performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Leipzig with members of the Dresden and Leipzig operas.  The next two seasons he returned to Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Japan for conducting invitations.   He completed an unprecedented five consecutive seasons as a guest conductor for  several Polish National Orchestras.  This past spring he Guest Conducted the Sussex Symphony in Brighton, England and following a superb performance was appointed their "Regular Guest Conductor."

Dr. Cobbs began his conducting career in Detroit, Michigan where he was the Associate Conductor of the Detroit Metropolitan Symphony, Principal Conductor of its chamber orchestra and frequent Guest Conductor of the Michigan Opera. While in Europe studying conducting at the Akademie für Musik, he was Principal Conductor of the Festival Chamber Orchestra in Vienna. In the Northwest, he has been a high school instrumental music director, guest lecturer at the Seattle University and University of Washington, conductor at the Marrowstone Music Festival, assistant conductor with the Seattle Opera, Conductor of the Seattle Junior Youth Symphony, Music Director and Conductor of the Everett Youth Symphony, Conductor of the Discover Music! community concert series with the Seattle Symphony, and Music Department Chairman, Orchestra Conductor and Theory Instructor at the Northwest School of the Arts in Seattle.


For More Information Contact:

Tacoma Youth Symphony Association
901 Broadway Plaza, Suite 500
Tel: 253-627-2792
FAX: 253-627-1682
Internet: info@tysamusic.org


Tacoma Youth Symphony Association ● 901 Broadway Plaza, Suite 500
Tacoma, WA 98402-4415
Telephone: 253.627.2792 ● Fax: 253.627.1682 ● info@tysamusic.org

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