Teddy Abrams

Teddy Abrams conducts, composes, and performs as a clarinetist, pianist, and sometimes as a saxophonist. Currently, Teddy is the Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony in Miami. He comes from San Francisco, where he began working with Michael Tilson Thomas at age eleven. Teddy was the youngest conducting student ever accepted at both the Curtis Institute of Music and the Aspen Music Festival, and his unusual prior education included five years of community college (instead of middle school) and a Bachelor of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory (instead of high school). Teddy has soloed with the San Francisco Symphony, performed with Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, John Adams, and Time for Three, and has played with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has been appointed Resident Conductor of the MAV Symphony in Budapest for the 2011-2012 season, and has taught at dozens of schools throughout the United States as part of his mission to support music education and community engagement.