Northwest Indiana Symphony and Music Director Kirk Muspratt in concert. Muspratt’s contract at the Munster, Indiana-based orchestra has been extended two years.
In Sunday’s (8/27) Northwest Indiana Times, Joseph S. Pete writes, “The Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra extended the contract of Music Director and Conductor Kirk Muspratt for two years. ‘Northwest Indiana has been my artistic home for the past 22 seasons,’ Muspratt said. ‘Thank you for welcoming this Canadian musician into your lives. I hope I have contributed something of quality, beauty and joy to yours.’ The Canadian native, who became an American citizen in 2010, previously served as a resident conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, associate conductor of the Utah Symphony, and assistant conductor of the St. Louis Symphony. He helped found the Shore Shore Summer Music Festival, a popular series of free outdoor concerts at venues around the Calumet Region like Fox Pointe in Lansing, the Indiana Dunes State Park in Porter, and the Pav at Wolf Lake in Hammond. He helped launch a solo competition for child musicians who can earn the chance to perform … at a Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra concert. A believer that ‘Symphonic music is for everyone,’ he’s passed out Just Ask Kirk cards to take audience questions … Muspratt is also the director of the New Philharmonic [Illinois] and the DuPage Opera Theater.”
