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Dr. Russell Guyver

1. Professor of Music
   Director of Orchestras
   Frasier 19
   970-351-2278
   russell.guyver@unco.edu

Russell Guyver is originally from London, England. He has followed a varied career as conductor, violist, composer and educator. As a violist he has played in many orchestras including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English National Opera, Royal Ballet and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela. He has appeared as conductor, soloist and chamber musician on four continents and is a guest artist at several annual music festivals in the United States and in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1984 Russell Guyver co-founded the String Orchestra of the Rockies, now a flourishing professional chamber orchestra based in Missoula, Montana. Also active as a composer, he received an Emmy for his score of a PBS docudrama.

Guyver is Director of Orchestras at the University of Northern Colorado. Under his direction, the UNC Symphony Orchestra has been awarded "Best US College Orchestra" by Down Beat magazine five times and was selected to represent the USA in the International Cycle of University Orchestras in Zaragoza, Spain in 2003 and 2006.

Russell Guyver received his musical training at the Guildhall School of Music in London, and, more recently he earned a doctor of musical arts degree in conducting at the University of Kansas under the guidance of Brian Priestman.