TBSO Orchestra
Paul Haas
Paul Haas is a truly dynamic and innovative musician, composer, and conductor. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Sympho, a New York-based contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the creation and performance of radically engaging musical experiences in unusual venues and unexpected contexts.
Mr. Haas is former Music Director of the acclaimed New York Youth Symphony and since 2010 has also been the Music Director of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SoNA), which has more than tripled its yearly budget since he began his tenure.
An acclaimed composer and commissioned by iconic venues like the Park Avenue Armory and Rubin Museum in New York, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and the Anchorage Museum of Art in Alaska. Mr. Haas is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School, where he studied orchestral conducting.
Maria Fuller
Canadian conductor and musician Maria Fuller is from a farm near Earl Grey in southern Saskatchewan. Her musical training began at the age of four, on trumpet and piano. Today she is an internationally active performer on the podium, at the piano, and on trumpet, as well as a sought-after vocal coach, composer and arranger. As a conductor, Ms. Fuller has a wide range of repertoire and interests, from J.S. Bach to Steve Reich, from Richard Strauss to renowned Canadian composer, Elizabeth Raum. Equally adept in the opera pit and on the concert stage, she shows a winning charisma and infectious joy in her music-making.
Fuller holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano from McGill University in Montréal and is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) under Maestro Mark Gibson, where she also received a Master of Music in Piano with Prof. Michael Chertock and an Artist Diploma in Opera Coaching with Prof. Marie-France Lefebvre.