Maestro Dino Anagnost celebrates his thirtieth season as Music Director and Conductor of The Little Orchestra Society.  Since 1979, he has conducted the Society in over 1,000 concerts and has brought to the organization not only his musical gifts, but also his remarkable programming innovations for adults and children alike.

A native of Manchester, New Hampshire, Dr. Anagnost graduated from Boston University and The Juilliard School. For his musical achievements throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, Maestro Anagnost has received numerous honor and citations, from governments, patriarchates, states, universities, and civic and arts organizations. He has received three advanced degrees, including a doctorate from Columbia University where he is currently adjunct professor of music. He was nominated for a Grammy by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and was conferred the honor of Commendatore in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for his service to Italian music in the United States.

Equally at home in the musical repertoire of the 18th or 21st century, on the concert stage or in the opera house, in the classical or Broadway idiom, Dr. Anagnost has conducted operas by Mozart, Strauss, Bizet and Puccini; operettas of Sousa, Herbert, Strauss and Sullivan; the Asian premieres of Menotti’s The Medium and Amelia Goes to the Ball; and on PBS, Poulenc’s La Voix humaine for “Great Performances.” For an IBM special, he conducted a recreation of Rodgers’s ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, with New York City Ballet’s prima ballerina Allegra Kent, and Gershwin’s original version of his American classic, Rhapsody in Blue.

As Music Director and Conductor of The Little Orchestra Society, he has collaborated with some of the 20th century’s major composers - Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Gian Carlo Menotti, David Diamond, John Corigliano, Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein—as well as outstanding personalities in related disciplines—Lynn Redgrave, Claire Bloom, Carol Channing, Robert Cuccioli, Mia Farrow, Joel Grey, Michael Medved, Jeffrey Lyons, Estelle Parsons, Irene Pappas, Rita Moreno, Cyril Ritchard and Glenn Close.

Dr. Anagnost has always loved working with young people and is committed to introducing the wonderful world of classical music to young audiences everywhere.  His many hobbies include traveling and collecting music boxes of all kinds.