2010-2011 Season, Classical Series
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Guest Narrator
Michael Dixon
Michael
Dixon has been the host/commentator for the Arizona Opera radio network
since the first broadcast of the 1994-95 season. He has anchored the
live PBS television broadcast of the San Francisco Opera’s “Opera in
the Park” with featured guest Placido Domingo, performed with Peter
Schickele (“PDQ Bach”), and hosted several television specials with the
San Francisco Symphony. As a narrator, he has performed with the
Arizona Opera, Phoenix Symphony, Symphony of the Southwest, and the ASU
Symphony.
The son of a composer, and grandson of a conductor
from whom he received his first conducting lessons, Michael went on to
study both orchestral and choral conducting at the University of
California, and opera direction under John Stone Porter at Arizona
State University. He has conducted the UCR Symphony, Collegium
Musicum, the High Desert Symphony in its first performance of Handel’s
Messiah, and both staged and conducted Menotti’s Christmas opera Amahl
and the Night Visitors. And has served as the Principal Conductor of
the Scottsdale Symphony.
Most
familiar to Arizona audiences from his work in broadcast media, Michael
enjoys a truly international career. From Phoenix to Fiji, from radio
and television to print, audiences have enjoyed his easy and
informative style in interviews with artists, business leaders,
scholars, and political figures. He has been honored ten times by the
Arizona Associated Press, and twice by the Arizona Governor’s office.
Currently,
Michael is the film critic for both Fox 10 television and 92.3 KTAR
radio in Phoenix, where also serves as a news anchor, and host of the
weekly financial program The Smart Investor, and the travel program
Around the World in 60 Minutes. Nationally, he regularly broadcasts to
44 states and Canada over CBS radio, and he often appears on PBS
television in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and KAET-TV in Phoenix.
Apart
from his public life, Michael holds a Doctorate in Pastoral Theology,
serves on the Ethics Advisory Board of Hospice of Arizona, and holds a
commercial/instrument pilot’s certificate in single and multi-engine,
land and sea aircraft.
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