A multi-faceted conductor and educator, Dr. Britney Alcine brings energy and attention to detail in every rehearsal and performance. Dr. Alcine is the conductor of the Maryland Symphony Youth Orchestra (MSYO) and the Director of Music and Arts and Assistant Professor at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, PA. Before beginning her work with MSYO, Dr. Alcine was an assistant conductor with the Hartt Orchestra at The Hartt School in West Hartford, CT. Her professional appointments include conducting a semi-staged production of Annie Get Your Gun at the New London Barn Playhouse in New London, NH, conducting the world premiere of the orchestrated Piano Concerto in G minor by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel with piano soloist, Sharon Su for the “Fanfare for Composing Women” concert in Brookline, MA, and acting as the assistant conductor for the Eureka Ensemble in Boston, MA. In addition to these appointments, Britney inspires and educates young musicians through her energic rehearsals and diverse programming. Dr. Alcine has conducted region orchestras in Connecticut, including the Southern Region High School Festival Orchestra in January 2023 and Western Region High School Festival String Orchestra in February 2022, programming pieces by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Georges Bizet, and William Grant Still. Dr. Alcine was also the conductor of the Virtuosi Orchestra with the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras and the conductor of the Miss Porter’s School Orchestra in Farmington, CT. Dr. Alcine earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, studying Instrumental Conducting with Edward Cumming. Prior to that, she received her master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying Orchestra Conducting with Morihiko Nakahara, and her bachelor’s degree in music education from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Dr. Alcine was invited as a finalist for the Assistant Conductor scheme with the Chineke! Orchestra in London, UK in 2024. She was also the conducting fellow at the Lake George Music Festival in August 2024 studying with Roger Kalia, and a conducting apprentice at the National Music Festival in June 2024 studying with Richard Rosenberg. Previously, she studied with Gerard Schwarz at the Eastern Music Festival (Online) Conducting Institute in 2020, Joshua Gersen as a conducting apprentice with the New York Youth Symphony in 2015-2016, and Eduardo Navega and the late Harold Farberman at the Bard Conducting Institute in 2015.