Approaching his seventh season as resident conductor of the Omaha Symphony,
Ernest Richardson also conducts a wildly successful Super Pops series and
is chief architect of the symphony's outreach and education programs with
nearly 40,000 students. His own music education started at age three with
violin lessons from his father and continued onward to string education
at Indiana University and conducting and composition at the University
of Michigan. While appearing as violist with the Phoenix Symphony, he began
his conducting career as well. He is the creative force behind many of
the Omaha Symphony's newest programs, such as Suburban Sundays,
which takes the symphony into the community for laid back Sunday shows.
