2000-Present                 
2000-Present                 
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Karen Lynne Deal
                PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Music Director and Conductor.
Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Music Director and Conductor.
The Nashville Symphony, Associate Conductor, Tennessee.        
Nashville Ballet, Music Director and Conductor, Tennessee.         
Nashville Opera Association, Conductor, Tennessee.        
Belmont University, Conducting Faculty, Tennessee.
Tennessee Opera Theatre, Principal Conductor, Tennessee.
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor, Maryland.
Sinfonia Concertante, Founding Music Director, Maryland.
Loyola College, Faculty: Music History, Applied Flute, Maryland.
Chesapeake Youth Symphony, Founding Music Director, Maryland.
National Repertory Orchestra, Assistant Conductor, Colorado.
Frankfurt State Opera, Hospitantin, Germany.
Rockbridge Orchestra, Music Director, Virginia.

                
                GUEST CONDUCTING ENGAGEMENTS

Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Springfield, Missouri.
The Nashville Symphony, Martin Luther King, Jr. “Let Freedom Ring.”
Conductor’s Institute at Bard, Faculty, Annandale on the Hudson, New York.
Orchestre del Mundo, Mexico City, Mexico.
National Repertory Orchestra, Breckenridge, Colorado.
Conductors Institute of South Carolina, Faculty, Columbus, South Carolina.
New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, Iowa.
Tulsa Philharmonic, Oklahoma.
The Westmoreland Symphony, Pennsylvania.
Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne, Florida.
Sacramento Symphony, California.
Kansas City Camerata, Kansas.
Tucson Symphony, Arizona.
Richmond Symphony and Sinfonia, Virginia.
Pro Arte Orchestra, Vienna, Austria.


                                HONORS AND AWARDS

Studs Terkel Humanities Award, Illinois Council for the Humanities.
Community Service Award, Illinois Council of Orchestras.
Meritorious Service in Outstanding Programming Award, Illinois Council of Orchestras.
Individual Artist of the Year, Mayor’s Award for the Arts,  Springfield Arts Council.
Tanglewood Music Festival, Study with Gustav Meier, Leonard Slatkin, Leon Fleisher.
Winner of 1988 National Repertory Orchestra Biennial Conducting Competition, CO.
Aspen Music Festival, Fellowship Conductor with Paul Vermel.


                                         EDUCATION

DMA in Orchestral Conducting, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore. ABD             
Hochschule Fur Musik und Darnstellende Kunst, Vienna, Austria.
MM in Orchestra Conducting, Virginia Commonwealth University. Summa Cum Laude.
BM in Applied Flute, Oral Roberts University, Oklahoma. Magna Cum Laude Graduate.