CBA Ode to Joy

DAVID LAZAAR KATZ FOUNDING MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR

H Hailed as “a musician’s musician” by Copland Award-winning composer, Judith Lang Zaimont, David Lazaar Katz is one of the most versatile performing artists currently working in the Chicago area. Professional con- ductor, award-winning composer, acclaimed playwright and actor, arts entrepreneur, arts advocate and educa- tor, Katz was recently honored by The Hartt School of the University of Hartford as its 2019 Alumnus of the Year for his many accomplishments. Now celebrating his 33rd season as the founding music director of The Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra, Katz has led Chicagoland’s unique all-lawyer ensemble nearly two hundred times during his long tenure, in repertoire ranging from Trial By Jury, (the first performances of Gilbert & Sullivan’s courtroom operetta ever presented in a working courtroom with a cast and orchestra made up entirely of legal profession- als) to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, as well as major orchestral and choral-orchestral works by Brahms, Britten, Bruckner, Dvorak, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Poulenc, Respighi, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and scores of others.

10 ODE TO JOY