Stephen Gunzenhauser

Stephen Charles Gunzenhauser (born April 8, 1942) is an American conductor of classical music.

He held three Fulbright grants and completed his education at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik, where he was awarded an artist diploma in 1968.

[2] In 1967, Gunzenhauser took first prize in the Santiago conducting competition, and from 1967 to 1969 he guest-conducted the Rhenish Chamber Orchestra, Cologne.

Gunzenhauser first had the idea for the festival when he was visiting the region on a trip with his wife, and was impressed with the area’s natural beauty and the gaslit main street of Wellsboro.

In Gramophone, Ivan March wrote of the conductor: Recordings conducted by Gunzenhauser include: