Conductor Kenneth Woods is often active in Britain and serves as the principal conductor and artistic director of the English Symphony Orchestra. He is also a cellist who has recorded with his own string trio, an educator, a composer, and a popular blogger.
Woods was born in the U.S. in 1968. He studied conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Woods went on for further conducting studies with David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Jorma Panula, and Gerhard Samuel. Zinman chose him as a fellow in the first class of the American Academy of Conducting in...