Music Director


William Intriligator was appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra in 2008. Although this is only his second season with the orchestra, his musicianship, energy, and personality have already made a strong impression on the orchestra, its audiences, and the Cheyenne community.

In addition to his responsibilities in Cheyenne, Intriligator is also in his tenth season as Music Director and Conductor of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra in Iowa, where he has guided the orchestra through an exciting period of artistic and organizational growth.

As a guest conductor, he has led performances with distinguished orchestras, including those of Honolulu, Houston, Minnesota, Richmond, Saint Paul, Savannah, Syracuse, and Tulsa. He has conducted at music festivals in Aspen, Colorado, and in Astoria, Oregon.
 
Formerly Apprentice Conductor and Staff Conductor of The Minnesota Orchestra, he led that orchestra in youth concerts and new music readings, while also assisting with subscription concerts and national tours.
 
From 1995 to 2000, he was a regular guest conductor of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, conducting that ensemble in educational concerts, concerts of new music, and regional tours.
 
Originally from Santa Monica, California, Intriligator graduated with highest honors in music from Princeton University in New Jersey. He received the first certificate in conducting from the Princeton Program in Music Performance and was awarded the Isidore & Helen Sacks Memorial Prize as the most outstanding musician in his class. He received numerous other awards and accolades as an oboist before turning to conducting. He has also studied piano and violin.
 
After studying music in Europe for a year, Intriligator earned his masters and doctoral degrees in conducting at the University of Minnesota. While a student in Minnesota, Intriligator also served as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Opera; Conductor of Ballet Minnesota productions of Nutcracker; Music Director of three civic orchestras (the Metropolitan Symphony, the Kenwood Symphony, and the Saint Paul JCC Symphony); and Assistant Conductor of the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra and Opera, where he conducted a full production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at age 23. He was also conductor of the joint orchestra at the College of Saint Benedict and St. John’s University.
 
His principal conducting teacher was Charles Bruck, with whom he studied privately in Paris and for many summers at the Pierre Monteux School. Other teachers and mentors include Claudio Spies, Christian Thielemann, Murry Sidlin, and Michael Gielen, to whom he served as Apprentice Conductor at the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Baden-Baden, Germany.
 
Intriligator was invited twice as a Conducting Fellow to the Aspen Music Festival, where Maestro David Zinman selected him for the inaugural year of the Aspen Academy of Conducting. He has also participated in conducting master-classes with James Conlon, John DeMain, Lawrence Foster, Eiji Oue, Leonard Slatkin, and Robert Spano.