Albert-George Schram, a native of the Netherlands, has served as Resident Conductor of the Nashville Symphony since August 2005 and is concurrently Staff Conductor of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. He also holds regular guest-conducting positions with the Tucson Symphony and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.

When the Nashville Symphony opened its state-of-the-art Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2006, Schram was invited to become the orchestra’s Resident Conductor. While he has conducted on all series the orchestra offers, Schram is primarily responsible for its Bank of America Pops Series.

Maestro Schram’s longest tenure has been with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked in a variety of capacities since 1979, and is an audience favorite for all series he conducts, including Pops and the CSO’s summer season.

As a regular guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Schram in 2002 opened the orchestra’s new permanent summer home, Symphony Park. He has regularly conducted the Charlotte Symphony for nine consecutive years.

From 1990 to 1996, Schram served as Resident Conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. Under his artistic guidance of three of the orchestra’s four subscription series, these series enjoyed exceptional growth. He continues to serve as a frequent guest conductor for the Louisville Orchestra.

The former Florida Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Maestro Schram as Resident Conductor beginning with the 2002/03 season. His conducting duties encompassed participation in all of the FPO’s series from Miami to Palm Beach.

In 2008 Maestro Schram was invited to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Bolivia in La Paz and the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. His other foreign conducting engagements have included the KBS Symphony Orchestra (live televised concerts) and the Taegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea, and the Orchester der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Luzern in Switzerland, among others. He has made return appearances to his native Holland to conduct the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Netherlands Broadcast Orchestra.

In the U.S., his recent and coming guest conducting appearances include the Florida Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic, Charlotte Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Allentown Symphony and the Mansfield Symphony.

Schram’s studies have been largely in the European tradition under the tutelage of Franco Ferrara (Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy), Rafael Kubelik (Luzern, Switzerland), Abraham Kaplan (Seattle, Washington) and Neeme Järvi (Hilversum, Netherlands). He received the majority of his initial training at the Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. He later moved to Canada to undertake studies at the universities of Calgary and Victoria. His training was completed at the University of Washington. During his studies, he frequently conducted the orchestra, festival and choral ensembles of those universities.

Schram currently resides in Florida with his wife, Debbie, and their children, Natalia, Galen and Gabriel.