Retired UA Professor of horn Daniel Katzen, former member Boston Symphony Orchestra, Keitaro Harada, Conducting Fellow and Dr. Thomas Cockrell at Tanglewood, August 2010
Recent (or soon-to-be) graduates in orchestral and opera conducting at
The University of Arizona School of Music
| J Alexander Bennett | DMA student, 2023- | Conductor, UA Philharmonic 2025-26. Music Director Cinderella, UA Opera Theater 2025. BM and MM, Brigham Young University |
| María Fátima Corona del Toro | DMA student, 2022- | Conductor, Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Fall 2025. Third Prize,The American Prize in Conducting—university/community opera division, 2025. MM, Michigan State University, PD Catholic University of America. Former conductor in Mexico’s Esperanza Azteca youth orchestra program. |
| Sean Bresemann | DMA student, 2018 – | BM College Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati, MM University of North Texas. Assistant Conductor, Opera in the Ozarks, 2021. Conductor Tucson Symphony Orchestra, educational concerts and education director |
| Lorena Suárez | DMA 2025 | Music Director, Orquesta Ciudad de Quito, Director of the Classical Program at the School of Music at Universidad de Las Américas. MM UMN Duluth, Diploma Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, Florence Italy. Guest conductor of orchestras in Minnesota, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil. |
| Yudai Ueda | DMA 2023 | MM, BM Ed Northern Arizona University Assistant Director of Bands University of Arizona, 2015-2021. Conductor, LendAnEar Ensemble, assistant conductor Tucson Repertory Orchestra and tour of Japan 2024. Guest conducting in Phoenix metropolitan area. |
| Keun Oh | DMA 2019 | Music Director, Civic Orchestra of Tucson. Guest conductor in USA, Germany and South Korea. Semifinalist Besançon International Conducting Competition, Besançon, France, 2013 and Semifinalist Antal Dorati International Conducting Competition 2015. |
| Juan Montoya | DMA 2018 | Music Director, Kuala Lumpur City Opera; Third Prize 2017 Blue Danube International Opera Conducting Competition |
| András Derecskei | DMA 2018 | Conductor and composer, Budapest, Hungary. Assistant Conductor, Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, 2017. Former Assistant Conductor and concertmaster, Szolnok Symphony Orchestra (Hungary). Frequently performed composer in Hungary. |
| Ace Edewards | DMA 2015 | Finalist, “Luigi Mancinelli” International Opera Conductors Competition, Orvieto, Italy 2014. Freelance conductor, Knoxville, Tennessee, Music Director, The Scruffy City Symphony |
| David Dunbar | DMA 2017 | Freelance conductor, Denver, Colorado |
| Jackson E. Warren | DMA 2012 | 2015 Graduate, University of Pennsylvania Law School, practicing in Delaware. |
| Keitaro Harada | DMA studies 2008-2011 | Associate Conductor, Tokyo Philharmonic; Music Director, Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra; former Associate Conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; frequent guest conductor of professional orchestras in the USA and Japan. Recordings with NHK Symphony Orchestra. Named Music Director of the Dayton Philharmonic, 2024. |
| James Stopher | MM 2008 | Assistant Professor, The College of Marin, Department of Music. DMA, The Peabody Conservatory 2011. |
| Eiki Isomura | MM 2007 | Music Director, Opera in the Heights, Houston. Freelance opera coach/conductor. DMA, The University of Michigan, 2011. |
| Jason Leo Curley | DMA 2009 | Freelance conductor, musical theatre music director |
| Kisun Lee | DMA 2009 | Conductor, Daegu City Choir, Ryul Chamber Orchestra. Professor emeritus, Chongshin University, Seoul |
| Martin Majkut | DMA 2008 | Music Director, Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra (Ashland, Oregon) and The Queens Symphony (New York City) |
| Juan de Dios Hernández | DMA 2008 | Associate Dean of Music, Director of choirs and orchestra, Grand Canyon University. |
| Adam Kerry Boyles | MM 2003 | Director of MIT Symphony Orchestra, Cambridge, MA. Assistant Conductor, Hartford (CT) Symphony Orchestra. DMA The University of Texas Austin 2005. |
| Linus Lerner | DMA 2007 | Artistic Director, Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Orquestra Sinfonica do Rio Grande do Norte (OSRN – Brazil). Guest conductor, orchestras worldwide |
| David Cole | DMA 2002 | Freelance conductor, program annotator |
| Others prior to Cockrell regime: | ||
| Robert Baldwin | DMA | Professor, University of Utah, School of Music, Music Director Salt Lake Symphony |
| John Roscigno | DMA | Professor, California State University, Northridge |