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Brian Dollinger is continuing in his seventh season as the Music Director of the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra. He is also the Music Director and Conductor (in his sixth season) for the Bradley Symphony Orchestra and Double Bass instructor at Bradley University in Peoria, IL and continues into his fifth season as the Music Director and Conductor for the Clinton Symphony (IA). He was recently appointed the Music Director of the Central Illinois Youth Symphony (CIYS). He started this position in the Fall of 2009. Proudly he is an alum of the CIYS program, having performed for many years in both the Central Illinois Concert Orchestra and the CIYS ensembles as a double bassist. He was the Assistant Conductor of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra and Ball State University Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the East Central Indiana Youth Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Dollinger has conducted the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, the Marion Philharmonic Orchestra (IN), and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra (IN).

Mr. Dollinger is a frequent conductor and clinician for various youth string festivals, competitions, and workshops. He continues to be a frequent guest/cover conductor for the Central Illinois Youth Symphony organization. In November of 2008, Mr. Dollinger was invited to teach and conduct at the Illinois Music Educators Association District Festival for Districts 2 & 8 held on the campus of Northern Illinois University. This was Mr. Dollinger’s first appearance for the IMEA.
He has been a participant at various conducting workshops which were organized by the American Symphony Orchestra League, the International Academy of Advanced Conducting, and the Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina, among others. He has studied conducting with Leonid Korchmar, Oleg Proskurnya, Adrian Gnam, Manuel Alvarez, Larry Rachleff, Glenn Block, Leonard Atherton, and Tomasz Golka.

In 2008, Mr. Dollinger traveled to Lomza, Poland to appear as guest conductor of the Lomzynska Orkiestra Kameralna (Lomza Chamber Orchestra). The capacity audience was entertained by music of Haydn, Wagner, and various works for saxophone and orchestra. Dariusz Samol was the featured instrumental guest artist for this performance that also included numerous students from his week-long masterclass session. Mr. Dollinger has been invited back to conduct more programs in Poland.
Mr. Dollinger graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Music degree in Double Bass Performance and a Master of Music Degree in Orchestral Conducting and Double Bass Performance. During his doctoral studies at Ball State University, Mr. Dollinger was inducted into the Phi Kappa Lambda Honor Society. Mr. Dollinger also received the “Outstanding Graduate Student” award from the School of Music, and a “Certificate of Achievement” from the Graduate School at Ball State.

Mr. Dollinger is the proud father of eleven-year old daughter, Arianna Rose, who is in her sixth year of taking violin lessons, as well as the proud step-father to Constantine, who is in his fifth year of taking cello lessons..