Ron Spigelman

Conductor, Performer

A pops and film-score specialist bringing Gershwin, Williams, and holiday favorites to Buffalo and Tulsa.

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In short

Ron Spigelman appears as a conductor in upcoming seasons with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, leading pops-oriented programs of Gershwin, film scores, Cole Porter, and holiday and patriotic favorites. He is also listed as a soloist on a Tulsa Symphony classics program featuring a bassoon concerto, though the directory does not specify his instrument. I do not have independent, verified biographical knowledge of this musician beyond these listed engagements.

What to listen for

Spigelman's upcoming appearances center on orchestral pops and film-score programming, the repertoire that tends to define a principal pops conductor's season. Listeners at the Buffalo Philharmonic's Gershwin evening can expect brisk, dance-inflected treatments of songbook standards alongside the more extended writing of "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris," where a conductor's pacing of the bluesy slow sections against the jazzy, syncopated fast ones matters most. The Halloween program pairs cinematic showpieces, John Williams's shark theme from "Jaws," with orchestral warhorses built on eerie effects, rustling strings in Berlioz, growling brass in Mussorgsky, a solo violin depicting death's fiddle in Saint-Saëns. Holiday Pops and Patriotic Pops concerts are typically assembled from familiar seasonal favorites, while the live film screenings, "Home Alone" and "How to Train Your Dragon," ask a conductor to keep the orchestra locked to picture while still shaping the music's own arc.

Written by OrchestraFinder, reviewed September 2026.