Henrik Jul Hansen
MSA Conductor

Music Director Henrik Jul Hansen is currently in his thirteenth (13th) season with the Merced Symphony. Hansen was born in Denmark and trained in conducting at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory, The Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has received man prestigious international awards. Henrik Jul Hansen currently conducts the Merced Symphony, The Sacramento Ballet Orchestra, his own Gold Country Orchestra in Sacramento, as well as events with Camellia Symphony, the Mother Lode Festival Chorus, and the Orchestra of the Mother Lode Friends of Music. He formed and conducted his own orchestra in New York, where he specialized in American Music. At Carnegie hall, he conducted Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite and other works for which he received rave review in the New York press. Since 2008 Hansen has been a part time instructor at UC Merced.

“Everything he does, from the choice of the program material to working out the rehearsal schedule, is geared to producing the highest possible performance of the music on stage,” says Joanna Browning, past president of the Merced Symphony Association and current board member.