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Allen Gross
Music Director and Conductor
ALLEN ROBERT GROSS has been lauded world-wide for his imaginative and probing interpretations of the standard and contemporary orchestra and chamber orchestra repertoires. Beginning his seventeenth year as Music Director of the Santa Monica Symphony, he has established the orchestra as one of the leading community orchestras in the country. Recent guest invitations have also taken him to China and to Cuba, where he conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de Matanzas as part of the International Festival of Contemporary Music. Locally, he recently conducted the Downey Symphony Orchestra. His position as conductor of the Santa Monica Chamber Philharmonia has resulted in highly acclaimed international tours to Italy, Austria, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary. As Director of the Occidental-Caltech Symphony, Gross is also Professor of Music at Occidental College and serves on the music faculty of the California Institute of Technology.
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