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Meet our ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dr. Brian Norcross has been the Artistic Director of Allegro since its founding in 2002. He has also been the Director of Instrumental Music at Franklin & Marshall College since 1986. He directs the Franklin & Marshall Orchestra, Philharmonia, and Symphonic Wind Ensemble; and he administers the Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Music Society, and he teaches conducting. A champion of new music he has directed over 50 premiere performances with various ensembles. He is also the Director of Music at the First United Methodist Church in Lancaster , where he directs the Chancel Choir and administers eight other choirs.
Dr. Norcross is an active guest conductor and clinician in Pennsylvania and Maryland . His most recent conducting appearances include the Pennsylvania Music Educators District 7 Orchestra, Lancaster County Youth Symphony (PA), Cecile County (MD) High School Band, Grant Street Dance Company (Lancaster, PA), Old York Road Symphony Orchestra (Jenkintown PA), Bucks County (PA) Band and the Winds of the Susquehanna (Lancaster, PA). He has also arranged and conducted seven benefit concerts for the Susquehanna Association for the Blind, "Beethoven to Big Band," "Brahms to Broadway", "Surprise, Spring and Farewell", "Gershwin to Gospel", "Mozart to the Movies," "New World to Lord of the Rings," and " Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev to Puccini." He has a number of publications including a book, titled "One Band that Took a Chance." Dr. Norcross is the recipient of the Massachusetts Music Educators Lowell Mason award for outstanding contributions to the field of music education.
He 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 Lampeter-Strasburg School District and have four children: Molly, Megan, Greyson and Gloria.
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