Winner of the 2018 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award from the US Solti Foundation, Roderick Cox was the Minnesota Orchestra’s Associate Conductor from September 2016 to July 2018 following a year in which he served as the ensemble’s Assistant Conductor. Before arriving in Minnesota, he served for two years as Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Alabama Symphony youth Orchestra.

Roderick was awarded the Robert J Harth Conducting Prize from the Aspen Music Festival in 2013, which led to national recognition and a return to the Festival as a Fellow. He has also held Fellowships with the Chicago Sinfonietta as part of their Project Inclusion programme and the Chautauqua music Festival, where he was a David Effron Conducting Fellow. In 2018, Roderick was also one of only four conductors selected to participate in the prestigious Daniele Gatti masterclass with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

As a guest conductor, Roderick has worked with the Cleveland, Seattle Symphony, BBC Symphony, Ulster, Louisiana Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestras as well as the Orchestre Metropolitan (Festival de Lanaudière), Grant Park Festival Orchestra and at the Manhattan School of music. Concerts with the Chineke! Orchestra included his debut in July 2017 in London (from which this live recording was taken) and further concerts in Birmingham and Ghent in September 2017.

Roderick will make his debut performance in a subscription concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra with Cameron Carpenter in November 2018 and make his Opera debut with Houston Grand Opera in January 2019 in performances of Bizet’s Pêcheurs de Perles.