"Great technique and energetic presence on the podium..."
The Philadelphia Inquirer

American conductor Na’Zir McFadden is the Assistant Conductor and Phillip & Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, working closely with Music Director Jader Bignamini. McFadden also serves as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra. He has performed with Boston Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Ballet, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

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Schedule

August 3, 2025
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Boston University Tanglewood Institute - Young Artist Orchestra

PRICE, Florence: Concert Overture No. 2

SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

August 5, 2025
Koussevitzky Music Shed
Tanglewood on Parade

BARBER Second Essay for Orchestra

COPLAND A Lincoln Portrait (McFadden)

TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture

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November 30, 2024
Boston Classical Review of Na'Zir McFadden Conducting Grieg Holberg Suite with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Na'Zir McFadden's interpretation was consistently songful, dancing, and attuned to the music’s expressive nuances. For exuberance and extroversion, the Praeludium and Rigaudon snapped—concertmaster Nathan Cole’s solos in the latter were spot-on—while the Musette’s hemiolas were shapely and urgent. Meantime, the Sarabande and Air unfolded as models of restraint. Throughout, conductor and string orchestra paid close heed to the suite’s dynamic range. As a result, the Air, particularly, came across with real poignancy, its central maggiore episode shining like a ray of light between the affectingly dissonant turns of its outer thirds.

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