John Thomas Dodson
American conductor, John Thomas Dodson is Music Director of Michigan's Lexington Bach Festival and Conciertos de la Villa de Santo Domingo, a music festival in the Colonial City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the capital of the Dominican Republic. He was recently appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra. In November of 2019 Dodson will conduct Puccini's Manon Lescaut with the Cleveland Opera, and he will return to Severance Hall to celebrate the Cleveland Women's Orchestra's 85th Anniversary season in 2020.