Caleb Young

Caleb Young is a conductor appearing with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in November 2026, leading two performances centered on Dvořák's Symphony No. 9. One concert is a shorter "Coffee Concert" format, while the other pairs the symphony with Adams's "The Chairman Dances" and Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto.

Listeners can expect a program built around Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World," a work famous for its broad, songful melodies and a slow movement built on a solo English horn theme many will recognize even without knowing its source. The fuller evening program opens with John Adams's "The Chairman Dances," a bright, rhythmically restless orchestral showpiece drawn from his opera "Nixon in China," followed by Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, a piece that moves between delicate, floating violin lines and sudden bursts of sharp, percussive energy. As no confirmed recordings or reviews of Caleb Young's conducting are known to us, listeners should treat this as a chance to hear these works fresh rather than through an established interpretive signature.