Devin Patrick Hughes - Music Director

Devin Patrick Hughes was recently appointed Music Director of the Niwot Timberline Symphony Orchestra and is currently pursuing an Artist’s Diploma at the Lamont School of Music in Denver, where he is the Assistant Conductor of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, the Denver Young Artist’s Orchestra and the Lamont Symphony Orchestra at the University of Denver. He also leads the Denver Contemporary Chamber Players, with whom he recently performed a fully staged version of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale with a libretto by Kurt Vonnegut. He will also be collaborating with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver for a Music/Arts alive project in the fall. In Ithaca, New York he founded the Ithaca Chamber Players, was Music Director of the Ithaca Sinfonietta, and conducted Kulmusik, a contemporary chamber ensemble performing works of many living composers including Christopher Theofanidis, Jennifer Higdon, and John Harbison. While pursuing his Masters degree in orchestral conducting at Ithaca College he also conducted in the annual Cornell University production of the Messiah, and premiered In the Garden of Eden, a ballet by Naomi Williams, along with two new works by Jesse Clark: his Cello Concerto and his controversial work entitled Free Weight Fantastique.

Devin was also Assistant Conductor of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra in Indiana, as well as Music Director of the Ball State University Summer Symphony, Conductor of the annual opera production and Associate Conductor of the East Central Indiana Youth Orchestra. He is originally from Springfield, Illinois and currently resides in Denver.