Noam Aviel, Music Director of Camden’s Symphony in C: Widening Repertoire, Emerging Artists, and Community Connections

In last Tuesday’s (2/13) NJArts.net (New Jersey), Courtney Smith writes that last season, Symphony in C, “the Camden-based professional training orchestra, invited five promising, young conductors to try out for the role of music director, which had been unfilled since 2020 due to pandemic postponements…. Noam Aviel … assumed the role of the symphony’s music director beginning with the 2023-24 season, which began in November…. Her creative vision is tailored to the identity of the orchestra, which began as the Haddonfield Symphony in 1952, a small community ensemble of amateur players. Seventy-two years later, it has transformed into a young professionals’ orchestra of emerging artists and recent college graduates from … prestigious conservatories. Based in Camden since 2006, it serves southern New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic region…. Symphony in C’s season selections seem to reflect the culture of change within the orchestral field over the last decade to include underrepresented composers and works…. She is looking forward to meeting more of the Camden community after a move from Israel to New Jersey late last summer. Personal connections are a priority and come naturally. After each concert, she heads to the foyer area to mingle with the departing concertgoers.”