Lee Mills
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Lee Mills has been appointed as sixth Music Director of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra (South Carolina). He signed a four-year contract. The symphony announced the news, ending a three-year search process that totaled 160 applicants from across the world. Throughout the 2023-24 season, six finalists hosted guest concerts in Greenville.
Mills will replace longtime conductor Edvard Tchivzhel, who led the orchestra for 24 years before stepping into an honorary role in 2023.
Mills, a five-time winner of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, has led concerts with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, National
Symphony Orchestra (USA), Rochester Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony and the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2014, Mills was the
Assistant Conductor to David Robertson for Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA.
