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Meet our Artistic Director
Dr. Brian Norcross
Dr. Brian Norcross has been the Artistic Director of Allegro: the Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster since its beginning in 2000. He also serves as the Artistic Director of Allegretto Youth Chamber Orchestra, which had its inaugural season in 2009-2010.
Brian has been the Conductor of Instrumental Ensembles at Franklin & Marshall College since 1986. He directs the Franklin & Marshall Orchestra, Philharmonia, and Symphonic Wind Ensemble and he teaches conducting. 
Brian is also the Director of Music at the First United Methodist Church in Lancaster, where he directs the Chancel Choir and administers the music and worship programs.
Brian is an active guest conductor and clinician in Pennsylvania and Maryland. His most recent conducting appearances include the Pennsylvania Music Educators (PMEA) Region VI Orchestra, the PMEA Region IV/V Orchestra, the PMEA District 7 and District 12 Orchestras, the Lancaster-Lebanon County Orchestra, the Lancaster-Lebanon County Wind Ensemble, the Lancaster County Youth Symphony (PA), OperaLancaster (Lancaster PA), and the Old York Road Symphony Orchestra (Jenkintown PA). He has also arranged and conducted ten benefit concerts for the Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired.
A champion of new music, Brian has directed over 60 premiere performances with various ensembles. He has a number of publications including a book, “One Band that Took a Chance.” His talents as an educator were recognized when he received the Massachusetts Music Educators Lowell Mason award for outstanding contributions to the field of music education. The Franklin & Marshall senior classes of 2004 and 2008 voted Brian “Most Influential Professor in the Arts and Humanities.”
Brian received his doctorate, with distinction, from The Catholic University of America in Washington D. C.; his master’s, with performance and academic honors from New England Conservatory in Boston, MA; and his bachelor’s from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. He and his wife Kim are active volunteers in the community and have four children: Molly, Megan, Greyson and Gloria.