David Alan Miller, the music director of the Albany Symphony, is also a devoted new-music advocate with an entrepreneurial streak.

Both were composers of high achievement, with Chadwick's work consistently proving viable today when well performed, as is the case in this recording by Julius Hegyi and the Albany Symphony.

Her orchestral compositions have been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony, New England Philharmonic, among others, and her works for wind ensemble are published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Ms. Oppens played the concerto's premiere a year ago with the Albany Symphony, and I can't think of anyone who could own it as she did on Sunday.

After a harrowing month that threatened not only its season but also its survival, the venerable Troy Music Hall is to reopen tomorrow night with a concert by the Albany Symphony.

Hall policy is made by the eight-year-old Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Corporation, a nonprofit group, but the Albany Symphony handles daily operations.

She plays in the Albany Symphony, the Allentown Symphony and the Delaware Symphony and gives private violin lessons in Manhattan.

As of 2012 she is Composer-in-Residence with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and in 2011/12 was Composer/Educator in residence with the Albany Symphony.

He served as composer-in-residence with the Albany Symphony (2007-2012) as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (2009-10).

My son-in-law, David Alan Miller, who conducts the Albany Symphony, had accepted an invitation to conduct two concerts at the 29th annual Estoril Music Festival.