Conductor

Conductor and Music Director Robert Butts has been the creative energy behind The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey from its beginning. He also serves as the Music Director for The New Jersey Concert Opera and Conductor for Opera at Florham. Since 2006 he has been the Artistic Director of the Summer Festival of Baroque Music held in Madison, NJ every August. Other conducting appearances have includeded performances fetauring Th New Jersey Symphone, The Plainfield Symphony, The Society of Musical Arts Orchestra, Harmonium Choral Society, the Oratorio Singers and teh Masterwork Chorus. Mastro Butts has been a regular guest conductor with orchestra and opera companies in Eastern Europe.

Lecturer and Educator

Maestro Butts is also a poplular lecturer throughout New Jersey on a variety of musical topics. He lectures frequently for the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. He currently teaches at Montclair State University and has taught at Drew University, Fairleigh Dickenson University and the County College of Morris. Special talks have been presented for New Jersey State Opera, The New Jersey Symphony, The State Theater, NJPAC and at libraries, retirement communities and museums across the state.

On Television

Combining his conducting and lecturing talents, Maestro Butts has developed a series for cable television broadcast entitled "Concerts and Conversations". These programs include a lecture on a specific composition with audio/video excerpts, followed by a complete performance.

For more information about Maestro Butts, you are invited to visit his website.