Stephen Mulligan is emerging as a compelling voice of his generation, known for his incisive musicality, imaginative programming, and dynamic presence on the podium. His work spans symphonic, operatic, and contemporary music, and he maintains a full guest conducting schedule across the US and Europe.

Highlights of ...

Stephen Mulligan is emerging as a compelling voice of his generation, known for his incisive musicality, imaginative programming, and dynamic presence on the podium. His work spans symphonic, operatic, and contemporary music, and he maintains a full guest conducting schedule across the US and Europe.

Highlights of the 2025–26 season include debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Syracuse Orchestra, and Cincinnati Opera, and return engagements with Ensemble MusikFabrik and Junges-Sinfonie Orchester Wetzlar. Following productions of Puccini’s La Rondine and Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, he also continues his collaboration with the University of North Texas Opera in a new staging of Handel’s Alcina.

As a guest conductor, he has also recently appeared with the Royal Danish Opera Academy, San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Filarmonica Transilvania, Gulbenkian Orchestra, and Athelas Ensemble.

Stephen Mulligan is the recipient of the Aspen Conducting Prize and a three-time recipient of the Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award. After his studies in Aspen, he was appointed Assistant and then Associate Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as Resident Conductor of the Cincinnati Opera and a Dudamel Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

As a composer, Mulligan studied with Jörg Widmann at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. His Haiku for contrabassist and vocalist Begüm Aslan inspired the creation of the Begüm Aslan Composition Competition, and in the 2025–26 season, percussionist David Moliner will premiere the sequel, Haiku II, at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He will also be an artist in residence at the Willapa Bay Artist Residency in Washington State.

Stephen Mulligan is represented worldwide by Marianne Schmocker Artists New York and Munich.

Violinist Peter Rovit (BM, Indiana University; MM, Hartt School; Professional Studies, Juilliard; DMA, SUNY Stony Brook) was among the last students of Josef Gingold at Indiana University where he also studied Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie. Other teachers have included Mitchell Stern, Philip Setzer (Emerson Quartet), Cho-Liang Lin, Paul ...

Violinist Peter Rovit (BM, Indiana University; MM, Hartt School; Professional Studies, Juilliard; DMA, SUNY Stony Brook) was among the last students of Josef Gingold at Indiana University where he also studied Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie. Other teachers have included Mitchell Stern, Philip Setzer (Emerson Quartet), Cho-Liang Lin, Paul Kantor and Donald Weilerstein. As a chamber musician, recitalist, and soloist he has performed throughout the United States and at music festivals such as Aspen, Taos, Yellow Barn, Hot Springs, Skaneateles, and Musical Spring in Saint Petersburg (Russia). A concerto competition winner at both the Hartt School and at SUNY Stony Brook, Mr. Rovit has also performed as a soloist with the Montgomery Symphony, the Fort Smith Symphony, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and the Tuscaloosa Symphony. He was a recipient of the prestigious Montgomery Symphony Violin Fellowship, has been a member of the Quartet Oklahoma, Associate Concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and Concertmaster of the Tuscaloosa Symphony.

Mr. Rovit also loves to share his knowledge and experience with young musicians and has been on the string faculty of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Alabama. His students have gone on to study at such schools as Juilliard and Rice, and have won positions in professional orchestras, as well as the Chicago Civic Orchestra.

In his spare time, he enjoys reading, gardening, cooking, and finding imaginative ways to cook up those garden vegetables so that his children will eat them. Since having moved to Syracuse, he and his family have also enjoyed getting involved in winter sports such as snowshoeing, skating, and skiing.

Arvilla Wendland earned Masters and Bachelors of Music degrees from the Juilliard School where she studied with Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory and Hsin-yun Huang. Upon graduating she was awarded the Drs. Norman Roland and Marilyn Pearl Special Achievement Award.

A recipient of the Kay Logan Chamber Music ...

Arvilla Wendland earned Masters and Bachelors of Music degrees from the Juilliard School where she studied with Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory and Hsin-yun Huang. Upon graduating she was awarded the Drs. Norman Roland and Marilyn Pearl Special Achievement Award.

A recipient of the Kay Logan Chamber Music Award, Ms. Wendland has performed at Alice Tully Hall, with the Quartz Mountain Chamber Players and as part of the Brightmusic Chamber Music Series. Ms. Wendland was featured in the Young Artist Concert Series at the Aspen Music Festival. She has also performed at the National Conference of the Society of Composers and for the Oklahoma and Alabama Viola Societies.

In the Central New York area Ms. Wendland has performed for the Society for New Music, Ensemble X, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, Civic Morning Musicals’ Live! at the Everson, Joyful Noise, Merry Go Round Theater, and Cornell’s Mayfest.

Previous appointments include Principal Violist of the Mississippi Symphony and violist of the Mississippi Quartet, and Assistant Principal Violist of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.