Chippewa Valley Youth Symphony

2007-2008 Concert Season

Music Director and Conductor – Gene Power

Eugene Power is Director of Bands at Eau Claire North High School and serves as the Assistant Conductor for the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Power brings an enormous amount of energy and expertise to the Chippewa Valley Youth Symphony. In addition to his current professional duties, he has taught in the Eau Claire, Fall Creek and Osseo-Fairchild school districts and maintains an active performance schedule, having made appearances as a guest clinician for concert bands and jazz ensembles in the region. He is a graduate of UW-Eau Claire where he was the winner of the first annual UW-Eau Claire Bands Conducting Competition and served as music director for Clearwater Student Chamber Ensemble, a chamber orchestra that he formed. Mr. Power has studied conducting with Nobuyoshi Yasuda of UW-Eau Claire and Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony.