Per Brevig brings extensive experience, as both performer and conductor to the podium. He is attracting attention internationally as a conductor of remarkable ability and insight. His career has earned him a growing reputation as a superb conductor and orchestra builder. Norwegian born, Maestro Brevig received his music training at The Juilliard School and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree. He was principal trombonist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 1968 to 1994 and his performed as soloist with major orchestras throughout the world. Numerous commissions and premiers are to his credit. He has an extensive solo discography and is a frequent adjudicator of major competitions.

On leaving his position with the Metropolitan Opera, Maestro Brevig's conducting career expanded quickly. In the five years following 1994 he conducted more than twenty operas. A review in The New York Times declared Maestro Brevig 'shaped the performance [of Rigoletto] artfully'. In addition to his positions as music director and conductor of East Texas Symphony Orchestra and the Manchester Symphony Orchestra, (CT), he is continuing his teaching affiliations with the Aspen Music Festival, Colorado, as well as the music schools of Juilliard, Manhattan and Mannes in New York. His conducting repertoire runs the gamut from Renaissance to contemporary music. A staunch advocate of contemporary music, he has commissioned and performed numerous new works.

Maestro Brevig is a member of the National Society of Literature and the Arts. He has received numerous awards and prizes including a Koussevitsky Fellowship, Henry B. Cabot Award, three Naumburg Fellowships, the international music competition in Pragm and the Neill Humfeld Award for excellence in teaching. In 1990, King Olav V of Norway decorated him with the Royal Medal of St. Olav in recognition of his efforts on behalf of Norwegian music and culture in the United States.

In 1991 Maestro Brevig, a champion of Scandinavian music, founded the Edvard Grieg Society, Inc., New York. Under his leadership the society has become the center of activities celebrating Grieg in the U.S. including major symposia at Columbia University. Events often culminate with a performance at Lincoln Center with Maestro Brevig leading the Orchestra of St. Luke's.

Maestro Brevig future conducting engagements include operatic and symphonic performances both in the U.S. and abroad. His repertoire is large and he is flexible in the programming of operatic as well as symphonic works.