David Leighton,
Conductor and Artistic Director
of the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra since 2005, joined the Metropolitan Opera
as Assistant Chorus Master when he was 22 years old and since then has enjoyed
a widely-varied career. He has been recital accompanist for Luciano Pavarotti,
Renata Scotto, Marilyn Horne, Montserrat Caballé and Paul Plishka, conducted the
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Opera, Nashville Opera, Anhaltisches Theater
Dessau, Germany, and assisted the late Sir Georg Solti in the world premiere of
Sir Michael Tippett’s Byzantium with the Chicago Symphony. As Artistic Director
of the BAUHAUS in Dessau, Germany, he championed masterpieces of contemporary
music.