MUSIC DIRECTOR RANDALL STEWART has had an active career as a conductor of orchestras, operas, and student ensembles throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. He comes to the DC Concert Orchestra having previously served as Associate Conductor for the Columbia Orchestra and Music Director of the Baltimore Sinfonietta, with recent guest engagements with Catholic University Symphony Orchestra, Anne Arundel Community College Orchestra, and the DC Youth Orchestra Program.

Maestro Stewart has also been active as an opera conductor, having led performances of Catholic University’s productions of The Merry Widow and L’incoronazione di Poppea, as well as productions of II Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Die Zauberflote for coópera in New York City.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEO SARBANES is a music historian, arts administrator, conductor, and oboist. He received his PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University in 2026, and his BA in music from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. In his doctoral dissertation, he explored the historical relationships between American orchestras and their local communities, and he has also presented scholarship about the experience of listening to concerts, documentaries, and video games. He led an orchestra of graduate students and other community members at Harvard, and has also worked in grant writing, publications, and education at Celebrity Series of Boston, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Opera Philadelphia