American-born conductor Case Scaglione was named the 2011 Solti Fellow by the Solti Foundation U.S. — an honor awarded only three times in the foundation’s history. He recently finished his tenure as music director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles, where he also founded 360° Music, an educational outreach program that brought the orchestra to inner-city schools. His programs spanned works from Beethoven and Wagner to the Los Angeles premiere of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony, which was supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.

Mr. Scaglione was a student of David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, where he won the James Conlon Prize and the Aspen Conducting Prize, which led to his Cleveland Orchestra debut in July 2010. Following his studies in Aspen, Mr. Scaglione was invited to serve as assistant conductor of the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he conducted a wide range of performances and served as cover conductor for all orchestral performances. A frequent guest assistant and cover conductor with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and David Robertson, he has also assisted at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Opera, and he has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Bramwell Tovey. In summer 2011 Mr. Scaglione is one of three Conducting Fellows at Tanglewood, chosen by JamesLevine and Stefan Asbury.

A native of Texas, Mr. Scaglione received his bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. His postgraduate studies were spent at the Peabody Institute, where he studied with Gustav Meier.

Paul Rissmann is a composer, presenter, and music educator working with orchestras and ensembles throughout the United Kingdom and abroad. He currently holds the position of Animateur for the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and Children’s Composer-in-Residence for Music in the Round and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. His commissions range from electronic music for Microsoft to orchestral music for the LSO. His interactive composition Bamboozled for orchestra and audience has been performed by more than 45,000 people, from Daytona Beach, Florida, to Melbourne, Australia, and was performed at the Olympic Torch relay in the U.K. in 2012. Mr. Rissmann recently won a 10th Anniversary British Composer’s Award (BASCA) for his composition The Chimpanzees of Happytown. His music education projects have received awards from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Royal Television Society. He devises and presents orchestral concerts for many leading orchestras in Europe, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. Recent engagements have included concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic in Abu Dhabi, Valery Gergiev and the LSO in Trafalgar Square, and Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall. In his native Scotland, Mr. Rissmann guest presents for BBC Radio and directs Naked Classics, a critically acclaimed series of music discovery concerts for adults by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.