The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra is honoring beloved Maestro David Stewart Wiley with the “David Stewart Wiley Leadership Fund,” a six-figure, steadily growing special endowment.
The lead gift was presented to add to the RSO’s existing and growing endowment funds to help sustain and grow the RSO. When...
A successful conducting change event in New York made quite an impact on the group of participants. Here’s a YPO LI testimonial.
David Stewart Wiley has been honored with the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award. Wiley earned recognition for his contributions in June 2015.
The following appears in Tuesday, May 11, 2010 edition of The Roanoke Times
By Seth Williamson
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra held up a mirror to America on Monday night, and it was beautiful. From the gritty streets of New York City to lonely Western prairies to the small town we all wish we were from, it...
Roanoke, Virginia – The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce that Music Director and Conductor David Stewart Wiley has signed a contract renewal through 2013 and that he will continue to lead southwest Virginia’s largest professional orchestra for at least the next three seasons.
“We are...
RSO timing impeccable, thrilling: Hometown tenor Nick Leitch sang again with big-name soloists and held his own with the pros.
By Seth Williamson | Special to The Roanoke Times March 22, 2010
Musicians know that, as important as a good entrance is, it’s not as dramatic as the unanimous release of a phrase,...
The following review by appeared in the January 26, 2010 edition of the Roanoke Times.
There was plenty to like in Monday night’s Roanoke Symphony Orchestra concert at the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre.
But the Virginia premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s magnificent new clarinet concerto outshone everything...
