Paul Stanbery

Paul Stanbery is currently Music director of the Hamilton Fairfield Symphony, Ohio Mozart Festival, Great Miami Youth Symphony and Associate Conductor of the Lima Symphony. Recent guest appearances have included the Western Piedmont Symphony in North Carolina, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, and the Shreveport Symphony.

As a choral conductor with the Cincinnati May Festival, he collaborated with such noted conductors as Robert Shaw, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, James Conlon, Robert Porco, Eric Kunzel, and Keith Lockhart for performances in Carnegie Hall, Cincinnati's Music Hall and the Riverbend Music Center.

A native of Toledo, Ohio, Mr. Stanbery received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Bowling Green State University and at present, along with his symphony conducting, directs a 60-voice adult choir, and a 50-voice children's choir along with a chamber orchestra in Cincinnati.

Mr. Stanbery is also the Founder and Artistic Director of Hamilton's Mozart Festival. Now in its fourth year, The Mozart Festival is the only one of its kind in the Midwest.

He believes strongly in the importance of reaching young people with classical music and has become well known throughout the state of Ohio for his work in that regard. His work with Hamilton's Greater Miami Youth Symphony has brought high praise, and he helped form an enormously successful new series for children as a cooperative venture between The Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony and the Lane Public Library System entitled "Mini-Maestros". Mr. Stanbery composed original music specifically for several such presentations.

His great popularity with the musicians and audiences, coupled with his continued creative programming and sustained quality work has brought the rewards of frequent full houses, strong financial symphonic growth and critical acclaim whenever he appears.

Paul Stanbery lives in Cincinnati with his wife Pat and their six children Aaron, Angela, Adam, Kathryn, Peter and Benjamin.