David Stewart Wiley has proven to be a strong, innovative, and inspiring young American music director, leading orchestras to artistic success, especially in challenging times. Wiley serves concurrently as Music Director & Conductor of our Long Island Philharmonic and Virginia's Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. Prior to these positions, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Active as a guest conductor, pianist, lecturer, and composer, Wiley conducts professional orchestras throughout the U.S and abroad. He has guest conducted in nearly all U.S. states, including the symphonies of San Francisco, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Oregon, Honolulu, Utah, and Buffalo. Wiley's growing career has taken him to dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa -- most recently to Italy, Germany, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. From 1999 until the summer of 2006. Wiley was the Artistic Director & Conductor of the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival in Virginia.
David Stewart Wiley became the fourth Music Director of our Long Island Philharmonic in 2001. Wiley is credited with bringing significant artistic growth, energy, and excitement to the Long Island Philharmonic and Chorus, with double-digit ticket sales increases each year over the past few seasons.
David Stewart Wiley won the prestigious Aspen Conducting Prize, which led to his engagement as Assistant Conductor for the 1994 Aspen Music Festival. In 1995, after being invited to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, he was awarded a Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood, where he conducted several performances. Wiley holds a Doctor of Music in Conducting from Indiana University, where he had also received his Master of Music degree, a degree in Piano Performance with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a degree in Religion, summa cum laude, from Tufts University, where he
co-founded the Tufts Amalgamates. Wiley will be honored this season by the NAACP as Citizen of the Year in the Arts -- a testament to Wiley's deep and lasting involvement with the African American community.
As a solo pianist, Wiley has performed with numerous major orchestras throughout the United States including Minnesota, Indianapolis, Oregon, Honolulu, Wheeling, and at the Aspen, Garth Newel, Wintergreen, and Prince Albert (Hawaii) summer festivals. He has also appeared as a jazz pianist in Boston's Symphony Hall and in recital appearances throughout the U.S. as well as in China, Russia, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Bulgaria.
Wiley's CDs include an album of French cello concerti with Zuill Bailey on Delos International, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 "Choral", American Piano Concertos with Norman Krieger on Artisie 4, "David Wiley & Friends: Classical Jazz", with Wiley at the piano, "American Trumpet Concertos" with the Slovak Radio Symphony and Paul Neebe, and a recording of American contemporary music with the IU New Music Ensemble.
David and his wife Leah have a son and a daughter. Together, they enjoy travelling, hiking and mountain biking, and family music time. Wiley's website is www.DavidStewartWiley.com.  Photo: Jim Bullington
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