{{BLP sources|date=March 2010}} {{Short description|American conductor}} '''Peter Bay''' is music director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinsymphony.org/about/conductor/|title = Music Director / Conductor}}</ref>

==Life== He graduated from the University of Maryland and the Peabody Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinsymphony.org/about/conductor/|title = Music Director / Conductor}}</ref>

He has previously been Music Director and Conductor of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Oregon,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brittfest.org/meettheconductor |title=Meet the Conductor &#124; Britt Festivals |accessdate=2010-03-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509190058/http://www.brittfest.org/meettheconductor |archivedate=2008-05-09 }}</ref> Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Breckenridge Music Festival, and has held conducting posts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rpo.org/s_7/s_32/p_358/Peter_Bay/ |title=Peter Bay - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra |access-date=2010-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617102807/http://www.rpo.org/s_7/s_32/p_358/Peter_Bay/ |archive-date=2016-06-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the Richmond Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has been guest conductor for over seventy other orchestras around the United States.

==Awards== * 1980 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition * 1987 Leopold Stokowski Competition sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinsymphony.org/about/conductor/|title = Music Director / Conductor}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://laketravisview.com/2009/10/21/peter-bay%E2%80%99s-lecture-brings-mendelsson%E2%80%99s-compositions-to-life/ "Peter Bay’s lecture brings Mendelsson’s{{sic |nolink=yes}} compositions to life", ''Lake Travis View'', October 21, 2009, Charles McClure]

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