Edward Polochick, Music Director

Edward Polochick has been Music Director of Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra since 1998. He also is Artistic Director of Concert Artists of Baltimore, an all-professional orchestra and vocal ensemble of 70 musicians, which is celebrating its 20th season.

From 1979-1999 Polochick was on the staff of the Baltimore Symphony as Director of the Symphony Chorus and since 1979 he has been at Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory as an Associate Conductor of Orchestra, Director of Choral Ensembles and Opera Conductor. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, he has appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Since winning the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Award and conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Polochick has attracted attention as an orchestra, operatic and choral conductor. His appearances have included the Baltimore Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Chautauqua Symphony, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Aalborg Symphony of Denmark, the Omaha Symphony and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.

Polochick resides in Baltimore, where his often is asked to share his knowledge and love of music at various lecture series, adjudications and radio broadcasts. He received the Peggy and Yale Gordon Achievement Award and in 2000 he was made an honorary member of the Baltimore Music Club. In 2002 he was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 2003-2004 he was named Baldwin Scholar at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, where he held lectures, demonstrations and panels on the creative art of music. Polochick also is a regular panelist on Face the Music, a review of recordings hosted by Jonathan Palevsky of WBJC-FM.

In the spring of 2005 Polochick guest conducted orchestras in Sioux City, Iowa, and Daejeon, South Korea. In May and June of 2006 he conducted the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Toluca, Mexico.