Alan Futterman is the Music Director
of the Academy Chamber Orchestra, the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and the Peninsula Ballet Orchestra. He served on the Music Faculty of Central Washington University for 10 years and as Music Director of the Dover Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor for the Weierstrass Society Concerts of Contemporary Music (New York, N.Y.), Music Director of the Zaccho Ballet Orchestra (Brussels, Belgium) and Conductor in Residence for Jeunesse Musicale of Europe (Croatia).

Mr. Futterman holds a Master's degree from the Juilliard School of Music and a Bachelor's degree from Manhattan School of Music with two years of Doctoral studies in Musicology and Linguistics. He spent one year pursuing Jazz studies and composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston where he became a private student of Charles Mariano. While still a Doctoral candidate, he served as Assistant Conductor to Maestro Vladimir Kin of St. Petersburg and participated in master classes with Sir George Solti and Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Futterman has taught at the Manhattan School of Music and his own private students have gone on to attend Harvard, Yale, The Curtis Institute and Peabody Institute.

As an orchestral musician, Mr. Futterman performed and toured with the New York City Ballet Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of New England, the New Jersey State Opera and the Philharmonia Virtuosi under various Music Directors including; Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Aaron Copland, Edo de Waart, James Conlon, George Manahan, Julius Rudel, Jorge Mester, Sixten Ehrling and Rainer Miedel.

Always active as a composer, Mr. Futterman's works include orchestral and chamber music. His Ode, with text by Theodore Roethke, was performed on tour in many cities throughout the United States. Lepi nash kostanich, variations on an original Istrian folk song, was premiered in the spring of 1995 by the Faculty Ensemble of Central Washington University and subsequently performed on numerous occasions in Croatia and in the United States. The Yakima Symphony Orchestra has commissioned and premiered a number of Mr. Futterman's works including the Farrago and Fugue (1997), Double Trouble, a setting of the Witches' Scene from Macbeth and the World Beat Dance Suite #1 (1998). The Mid-Columbia Symphony and the Yakima Symphony have performed the World Beat Dance Suite #2 (2001). In the 2005-2006 Season, Mr. Futterman conducted the premiers of his Japanese Vignettes (2005), New Slavonic Dance (2006) and the Fiesta Mexicana (2004).

Sanja Futterman, Assistant Conductor, is a frequent performer in the Puget Sound area and the former conductor of Bellevue’s Premier Orchestra. She has performed with the New Jersey State Opera, the Dover Symphony and the Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra of Moscow. Locally, she has appeared with many ensembles including the Pacific Chamber Orchestra, the Northwest Sinfonietta, the Federal Way Symphony and on many recordings and film scores.

Mrs. Futterman has served as Professor of Violin at the Funkcionalna Muzicka Skola of Zagreb, Croatia. She earned a Diploma in Violin Performance and Pedagogy and a second Diploma in Russian Language from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where her teachers included Leonid Kogan, Sergei Kravchenko and members of the Borodin Quartet.

Mrs. Futterman maintains a large studio of private violin students and many of her former students are now professional violinists themselves.