Powerfully compelling, Deanna Tham is known for her captivating and tenacious spirit on and off the podium. She is Music Director of the Union Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony, and Principal Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestras. ​ As recently as 2019, Tham has performed at the Proms in Royal Albert Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Seiji Ozawa Hall at the Tanglewood Music Center working with Maestros James Ross, Joseph Young, and Sir Antonio Pappano, as well as renowned artists Isobel Leonard and Joyce DiDonato. Highlights of the 2019-2020 season also included leading the Jacksonville Symphony’s first educational Martin Luther King Jr. tribute concert and the Union Symphony’s first city-community Pops on the Plaza collaboration of Latin American pop and classical music. Additional recent engagements include Assistant Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra (NYO-USA and NYO2) and Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Sinfonietta with Maestro Mei-Ann Chen. Tham has also regularly guest conducted with the Boise Philharmonic and Ballet Idaho and worked with soloists including Melissa White. Tham is also equally at home with a variety of musical genres. These projects include full-feature blockbuster movie scores, collaborations with Cirque Musica and pops groups like Cherish the Ladies and Jeans ’n Classics, and independent artists like Silent Film Score connoisseur and composer, Ben Model.