Special Guest Conductor Dirk Hillyer,

Leads May Concert

Dr. Dirk Hillyer, guest conductor, will finish out our 62nd MVPO Season with “Broadway’s Best” concert with music from the stage, including Overture to Candide and selections from Chicago, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Hamilton, and Mamma Mia!

Timberlane senior Isabella Phair will perform If I Loved You from Carousel, and the audience will experience Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances.

Dr. Hillyer is a highly-recognized figure on Boston’s North Shore who, also, performs nationally as musician/conductor/horn player/mentor. Varied experiences from the classical genre to “pops” music of Broadway and Film led to Hillyer’s activity as conductor for Disney’s DISNEY-INCONCERT which has taken him on two national tours. He has conducted the Austin Symphony, members of the Dallas Symphony in this Disney extravaganza, twice the National Symphony Pops at Wolftrap Performing Arts Center, Miami Pops and Philly Pops in the Kimmel Center. Additional dates included Florida, Virginia, Connecticut, and many Massachusetts cities.

Jazz and Rock play a significant part in Dirk’s make-up: he frequently performs and has
recorded with the Jazz Composers Alliance at Berklee College of Music and performed the
2013 Prague Jazz Fest that toured throughout the Czech Republic and southern Germany. In
2015 and 2016, Hillyer took the baton for DISNEY-IN-CONCERT engagements featuring all
the classics, including “Frozen”, “Lion King”, Mary Poppins and many others.