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	Lee Mills Recently announced as the 2011-2012 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra-Peabody Conducting Fellow and winner of the 2011 International Conducting Workshop and Competition in Macon, Georgia, young American conductor Lee Mills is rapidly becoming recognized for his energy and passion for conducting. For the past two years, he has served as the assistant conductor of the Peabody Concert Orchestra, Peabody Singers, and the Peabody-Hopkins Chorus in Baltimore, MD. He was the founder and Music Director of the Divertimento Chamber Orchestra in Walla Walla, WA. During his two-year tenure as Music Director, Mills mentored over forty musicians from the Walla Walla community and premiered multiple new works. Being proficient in both symphonic and vocal genres, Mills has served as a guest conductor for Peabody Opera Theatre, Assistant Conductor for the Whitman College Opera, and has conducted the Whitman College Chorale and Chamber Singers in concerts in Walla Walla and internationally on tour. As an eager performer of new music, Mills has commissioned and premiered several new pieces with the Divertimento Chamber Orchestra. In 2008, Mills premiered Sketch for Orchestra by composer Fang Mang at the Cabrillo Festival, in Santa Cruz, California and in the past two years he has conducted for recording sessions of several brand-new works at the Peabody Institute. Mills recently conducted a series of performances of Lee Hoiby’s 1991 opera This is the Rill Speaking with the Peabody Opera Theater. Mills has participated in the Cabrillo Festival, Rose City International Conductors Workshop and Buffalo Philharmonic Conductors Guild Workshop and worked with Marin Alsop, JoAnn Faletta, Jorge Mester, David Hoose, and Christopher Zimmerman. In Europe, Mills has conducted the „Sinfonia Buchuresti” in Romania. He also conducted the Whitman College Chorale on their European Tour in Finland and Estonia. In May 2009, Mills graduated cum laude from Whitman College, where he studied conducting with Dr. Robert Bode. Under the tutelage of Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar, he completed his Graduate Performance Diploma at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in May 2011. Lee Mill's Website Office: CA 3097 Phone: 410-704-2829 Email: lmills@towson.edu