"Performing music is not about perfection or trying to impress anyone else—much less our insecurities or sense of self-worth. It's about giving a gift, freely, with love. We have an opportunity to reach people in ways we often do not understand ourselves. We never know who is going to be in our audience, and we never know who needs to hear us, or why. Our job is simply to be the music, and share it.”

(from a pre-concert message to musicians)

~Timothy Dixon

Timothy Dixon is the Director of Orchestral Studies at Messiah University (PA), the Music Director / Conductor of the American Youth Philharmonic (VA) and the Conductor Laureate of the West Shore Symphony Orchestra (PA). He is also the author of An Introduction to Conducting (available now on Kindle). To learn more, please click below.