Michigan Philharmonic Music Director and Conductor since 1999, Nan Washburn is the 2013 Winner of the American Prize in Orchestral Conducting Professional Division and the 2016 Winner of The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music, professional division. She has also received 19 ASCAP Awards for Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music from the League of American Orchestras. Previously serving as Music Director and Conductor of Orchestra Sonoma, the West Hollywood Orchestra and Camellia Symphony, she has guest conducted the symphony orchestras of Richmond, Sacramento, Wyoming, Eugene, Berkeley, Marin, Cheyenne, Dubuque Stockton and San Luis Obispo addition to appearances with Oregon Mozart Players, Women's Philharmonic, the University of Michigan Philharmonia. Washburn has worked with and performed works by many of the leading composers in the U.S. today, including Ned Rorem, Libby Larsen, Ellen Zwilich, Zhou Long, John Corigliano, Joan Tower, Frank Ticheli, Alvin Singleton, Chen Yi, Lou Harrison, Lowell Liebermann, Mary Watkins, Michael Daugherty and Jennifer Higdon.