Brent Douglas is an accomplished American conductor, pianist and educator with a highly varied and international career. He has served as a pianist and vocal coach for the Savannah Voice Festival and VoicExperience for 9 years. He made his debut as an opera conductor with Dusseldorf (Germany) Lyric Opera in 2017, where he conducted Mozart’s MAGIC FLUTE for the company’s inaugural performance. He has worked with Opera Tampa, St. Petersburg Opera, Springfield Regional Opera (MO), and Opera in the Ozarks. Most recently, he appeared on the podium at the Vienna Summer Music Festival where he conducted a new avant-garde improv opera based on
Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals.” He was named a Conducting Scholar at Eastern Music Festival in the summer of 2019 and currently serves as Assistant Conductor of Tampa Bay Symphony. He has also conducted the London Classical Players Orchestra, National Women’s Chorus of Cuba, The Bard College Summer Symphony, The Norwalk Chamber Orchestra (CT), and the English Choir and Sinfonietta Berlin. Brent is a professor at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he conducts both the string orchestra and chorus and teaches piano. This is his seventh season playing piano and keyboards in the Florida Orchestra and has also played with Tampa Bay Symphony and Springfield Symphony (MO). He is an active member and grant recipient of MTNA and regularly judges competitions for young musicians. He holds a Master of Conducting and Bachelor of Piano from the University of South Florida in
2016 where he studied with Dr. William Wiedrich and Dr. James Bass. He was named “2016 Classical Musician of the Year” by Creative Loafing Magazine of Tampa Bay.