RESIDENT STAFF CONDUCTOR

Albert-George Schram, a native of the Netherlands, currently serves as Resident Staff Conductor of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, is a Resident Conductor of the Nashville Symphony and is a regular guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony. His longest tenure has been with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked in a variety of capacities since 1979, and is an audience favorite for all series he conducts, including Pops and the Columbus Symphony's summer season.

When the Nashville Symphony opened its state-of-the-art Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2006, Schram was invited to become the Orchestra’s Resident Conductor.  While he has conducted on all series the Orchestra offers, Schram is primarily responsible for its trend-setting Pops Series. 

As a regular guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Schram in 2002 opened the Orchestra's new permanent summer home, Symphony Park. He has regularly conducted the Charlotte Symphony for nine consecutive years.

Maestro Schram was Music Director of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 2000. During his tenure, the orchestra blossomed into the premier arts organization in west Texas.

From 1990 to 1996, Schram served as Resident Conductor of The Louisville Orchestra. Under Schram's artistic guidance of three of the Orchestra's four subscription series, these series enjoyed exceptional growth. Maestro Schram continues to serve as a frequent guest conductor for The Louisville Orchestra.

The former Florida Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Maestro Schram as Resident Conductor beginning with the 2002-2003 season. His conducting duties encompassed participation in all of the FPO's series from Miami to Palm Beach. 

In 2008, Maestro Schram was invited to conduct the Orquesta Sinfonia Nacional of Bolivia in La Paz and the Orquesta Sinfonia Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina.

Schram's other foreign conducting engagements have included the KBS Symphony Orchestra (live televised concerts) and the Taegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea and the Orchester der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Luzern in Switzerland, among others. He has made return appearances to his native Holland to conduct the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Netherlands Broadcast Orchestra.

In the U.S., his recent and coming guest conducting appearances include the Florida Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic, Charlotte Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Allentown Symphony, and the Mansfield Symphony.

Schram's studies have been largely in the European tradition under the tutelage of Franco Ferrara (Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy), Rafael Kubelik (Luzern, Switzerland), Abraham Kaplan (Seattle, Washington), and Neeme Jarvi (Hilversum, Netherlands). He received the majority of his initial training at the Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. He later moved to Canada to undertake studies at the universities of Calgary and Victoria. His training was completed at the University of Washington. During his studies, he frequently conducted the orchestral, festival, and choral ensembles of these universities.

Albert-George Schram currently resides in Florida with his wife Debbie and their children Natalia, Galen, and Gabriel.