Maestro Wroe is Music Director of the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Music Director of the Irish Tenors, Music Director of Orchestra Manhattan. Past positions include Principal Conductor at Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, Music Director of State Ballet of Missouri and resident conductor with New York City Opera. Orchestras conducted include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Nashville Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, L’Orchestre National de Lille, L’Ensemble de Paris, L’Orchestre National du Pays de La Loire, National Philharmonic of Armenia, Opera de Toulon, L’Ensemble Régional de Normandie, L'Orchestre Lamoureux with cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch, Symphony Nova Scotia, Kansas City Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, New York City Ballet, Neue Brandenburg Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Das Loh-Orchester Sondershausen, Philharmonische Orchester der Stadt Heidelberg, Delaware, Harrisburg, Huntsville, De Moines Symphony, and numerous tours of Western Austria with Vorarlberg Symphony and at the Bregenz Frühlings Festival. Maestro Wroe is a preferred conductor in Asia, directing the Taiwan National Symphony, Busan Philharmonic, Shenzhen Macau, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Zhejiang, Guiyang, and Taipei and Taichung Symphony Orchestras. He was Music Director of Maryland’s Garrett Lakes Arts Summer Festival in Maryland from 2000 – 2006, and Music Director of the Kansas City Camerata from 1990-1996.
Maestro Wroe was Seiji Ozawa’s Assistant Conductor at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, leading the Orchestra in Tanglewood (with Joshua Bell) in Boston’s Symphony Hall (with Horacio Gutierrez), collaborating with Jesse Norman’s recording of “Phraeda”, and Itzhak Perlman’s recording of Bernstein’s Serenade, and touring Europe with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players. 2007 marked Maestro Wroe’s recording debut with L’Orchestre National de Lille on the TransArt label with pianist Bruno Fontaine, and numerous broadcast recordings, through Austrian Broadcasting Authority (ORF), with the Vorarlberg Symphony.
Maestro Wroe was Resident Conductor at Oper der Stadt Heidelberg (1998-2002), Music Director of State Ballet of Missouri, Principal Conductor at Opera Delaware (2000 – 2005), and directed the summer ‘Opera Under the Stars’ series at the 7000 seater Garden State Arts Center in NJ. From 2005-10 he was Music Director of Opera Teatro Gratticielo in NY, opened for the newly formed Fresno International Grand Opera, and served as Judge with Anna Moffo. for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Maestro Wroe, has extensive and diverse experience in cross-over genres, being the Tour Music Director of the Irish Tenors, collaborated with Kristin Chenoweth, Mannheim Steamrollers, Celtic Women, Natalie Merchant, Joan Rivers, Don Rickles, Bob Newhart, Jackie Evancho and Celtic Thunder, and a return guest at Ocean City Pops Orchestra, to name but a few.
Maestro Wroe devotes considerable time to aspiring musicians. In 2014 he held a residency at Brown University Symphony Orchestra (Rhode Island) as its Interim Music Director, was Principal Conductor at N.Y. University Symphony Orchestra (2008-2011), and Director of Orchestras at Montclair State University, NJ (2000-2005). He led the Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerts, the Taipei Symphony Orchestra Summer Youth Festival, given master-classes at New England Conservatory, Harvard University, Rutgers University and University of Alabama. He has served as Judge for the Music Assistance Fund administered by the League of American Orchestras, and was the Chairman of the Jury of the New Jersey MTA State Concerto Competition.
Awards are numerous, including the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship at Tanglewood, a citation in United States Congress for community commitment, and finalist in the 1st Bernstein International Conducting Competition. He attended Lancing College, has a BMus from Manchester University (England), a MM from Northwestern (Chicago), and studied with Gustav Meier and Victor Yamposky.
