Jorge Mester, music director

Jack Everly, principal pops conductor

Visiting conductors, 2009-10 season

• Stuart Chafetz
• Kelly Corcoran
• Brent Havens
• Michael Krajewski
• Juan Francisco La Manna
• Andrew Lane
• Stuart Malina
• Robert Moody
• Carlos Miguel Prieto

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James Griffith, viola, received his M.M. degree from the Juilliard School. He also received his undergraduate degree from the Manhattan School of Music and attended Florida State University. He is a former member of the Hudson String Quartet in New York, faculty member of Point-Counterpoint Chamber Music Camp in Vermont and director of the New Arts Festival in Fort Myers. He formerly served as principal violist of the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and the New York Virtuosi.

Raised in Southwest Florida, Griffith is founder of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in Fort Myers. He has been a member of the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra since 1988.

James Griffith is underwritten by Al & Mary Agnes McQuinn for the 2009-10 season.