Dan Allcott -
Since moving to Tennessee in 2003, conductor and educator Dan Allcott has become a dynamic force in the state’s musical life. He is Music Director of the Bryan Symphony Orchestra at Tennessee Tech, where he also serves as Professor of Music and Director of Orchestra Studies. Formerly Music Director of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association (2010–2012) and Atlanta Ballet (where he led more than 300 performances), Allcott has conducted orchestras across the U.S. and abroad, including the Indianapolis and Dallas Symphonies, Orchestra Iowa, and the Danish Radio Orchestra. A champion of new music, he has premiered works by Tennessee composers and commissioned Joan Tower’s Made in America. Dedicated to education and outreach, his annual youth concerts with the Bryan Symphony have reached more than 25,000 fourth graders across the Upper Cumberland.