Orchestral Conducting

Maestro Gerard Floriano has conducted in many of America's premier concert halls, including NYC's Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Baltimore's Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, as well as abroad in both Spain and Italy, most notably as Conductor at the prestigious Artist Alliance International Choral Festival in Vicenza, Italy.  At one time Conducting Assistant to Maestro John Nelson with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Floriano has been Guest Conductor with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, the Finger Lakes Symphony, and he has spent many years at Brevard Summer Music Festival as Resident Conductor for this renowned orchestral training institute.  His imagination and commitment to family programming includes original productions integrating music history with contemporary culture such as Music from Around the World and Hogwarts and The Time Traveler Rocks New Musical Frontiers.   His reputation, as an innovator and an expert at training musicians of all ages, was recognized by the League of American Orchestras in 2004.

A conductor equally accomplished in the orchestral, choral, and operatic arenas, Dr. Floriano was founding Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Rochester Opera Factory.  He is now in his fifth season as Artistic Advisor of Mercury Opera Rochester.  Also in the Western New York region, he has led the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra with ambitious domestic and international tours, welcomed by rave reviews.  Dr. Floriano has been Associate Conductor of the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor of the Transylvania Youth Orchestra, and was given a spotlight at the MENC's 50th Anniversary Conference conducting the All Eastern Conference Orchestra.  He has also directed honors festivals in states as diverse as California, Illinois, Montana, and New York.

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he has received conducting fellowships at the Aspen Summer Music Festival and the Oregon Bach Festival.  Past Director of Choral Activities at Memphis State University, Gerard Floriano is Associate Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Activities at the State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo where he was recently honored with the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity.