Argentina
Michelle Di Russo is a recipient of the 2020 American Austrian Foundation/Faber Young Conductors Fellowship and has joined the Chicago Sinfonietta Project Inclusion for their 2020/2021 season. She recently graduated with a doctoral degree in orchestral conducting from Arizona State University, where she served as assistant conductor for the ASU Symphony Orchestra and Opera Lyric Theatre. Dedicated to the music of our time, in 2019 Di Russo participated as a Conducting Fellow in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Cortona Sessions for New Music in Italy, and with the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own.” Di Russo has also worked with the Phoenix Youth Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Musicfest, Silicon Valley Symphony, and Charleston Symphony. She holds a master of music degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Kentucky and a degree in orchestral conducting from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.