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Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra Attracts Young Musicians of High Accomplishment

John Kennedy

  John Kennedy is the Resident Conductor and Director of Orchestral Activities for Spoleto Festival USA, where he plans and leads the Festival’s “highly regarded presentations of music” (The Wall Street Journal). John talks with Jeanette Guinn about how the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, a diverse group of young musician with a level of "super accomplishment," comes together each year to form the musical spine of Spoleto. 

Jeanette Guinn is a professor in the Arts Management Program in College of Charleston’s School of the Arts and is pleased to have former students working in the US, Europe and Australia. After interning at the South Carolina Arts Commission during graduate school, Jeanette spent 25 great years working as an arts manager.