Michael Pratt
Music Director and Conductor of the Delaware Valley Philharmonic since 1990, Pratt has appeared with some of the leading ensembles in the United States, including the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the orchestras of Detroit, Rochester, Atlanta, Long Island, and Indianapolis.
Previously, Pratt served as Associate Conductor of the New Jersey Symphony, and has appeared with the Trenton Symphony, the Riverside Symphonia, and has conducted the American Repertory Ballet Orchestra company’s Nutcracker performances since 1996.
Appointed to the faculty at Princeton University in 1977, Pratt conducts the University Orchestra, is director of the Program in Musical Performance, and teaches conducting on both the undergraduate and graduate level. Pratt was educated at the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory, and Tanglewood. His conducting teachers were Gustav Meier, Gunther Schuller and Leonard Bernstein.
