William Eddins Accomplished conductor, pianist, chamber musician, and entrepreneur, William Eddins is the Music Director Emeritus of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and a frequent guest conductor of major orchestras throughout the world. Career highlights include taking the Edmonton Symphony Orchestras to Carnegie Hall in May of 2012, conducting RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale on Italian television, and leading the Natal Philharmonic on tour in South Africa with soprano, Rene Fleming. Other conducting engagements included the New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Boston Minnesota, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Houston, as well as the Los Angeles and Buffalo Philharmonics. Internationally, Eddins was Principal Guest Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland). A native of Buffalo, NY, Eddins attended the Eastman School of Music, graduating at age eighteen; and studied conducting at the University of Southern California. He served as resident conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1997-2003) and was a founding member of the New World Symphony in Miami, FL. ***Content for the Daily Showcase social media series is obtained from information found online and is presented for educational and informational purposes only. Please let us know if you would like to delete, edit, correct or provide an attribution to a post by emailing us at [email protected]. We also encourage you to contact us at this same email address to inform us of other outstanding Black classical instrumentalists and/or composers, conductors and administrators whom you recommend we feature in the Daily Showcase.***