Tonu Kalam was trained as a conductor, pianist and composer at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Curtis Institute of Music. His summer credits include fellowships at Tanglewood and Aspen, as well as many years at the Marlboro Music Festival. A prize-winner in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductor’s Competition, he has appeared as guest conductor with the North Carolina Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, and in Europe with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Finland’s Oulu Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Kalam has conducted over 130 opera performances for companies including the Shreveport Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival and the Nevada Opera Company. For thirteen years he was an administrator and artist-faculty member at the renowned Kneisel Hall summer chamber music festival in Blue Hill, Maine. Presently he is a Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving as Music Director and Conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Kalam is also in his nineteenth season as Music Director and Conductor of the Longview Symphony. In addition to his conducting activities, he performs regularly as a pianist and chamber musician. Maestro Kalam is also the President of the international Conductors Guild.