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Thomas Fairlie is the founding Musical
Director/Conductor of the Temple Symphony
Orchestra and leads the orchestra in its fifteenth
season.
He was instrumental in developing the
board of directors in 1995, and continues
to assist the board in long-range planning,
fundraising, public relations and artistic development.
With his and the TSO board's encouragement
and assistance, classical music
lovers from Georgetown, Texas, founded the
Georgetown Symphony Society in 1999 with
the Temple Symphony season as its base.
Mr. Fairlie is the Director of the Division of Fine Arts at Temple College,
where he has been employed since 1990. He founded the Temple Jazz Orchestra
in 1990, and the Temple Jazz Festival, which is one of the most successful
jazz festivals in Texas, in 1991. Under Mr. Fairlie's direction, the Temple
Jazz Orchestra has received critical acclaim for its three recordings, and has
performed for the International Association for Jazz Education international
conference in New York, the Texas Bandmaster's Association annual conference
and other regional conferences and festivals. TJO has also collaborated
with the Temple Symphony for several concerts.
Additionally, Mr. Fairlie was the co-founder and musical director of the
Larimer Youth Festival Orchestra in Ft. Collins, Colorado (now the Youth Orchestra
of the Rockies), and was the musical director and conductor of that
organization for five seasons. Mr. Fairlie has guest conducted the Youth Orchestra
of the Rockies and professional orchestras
in Ft. Collins and Lake Charles, LA. He also conducts
the Louisiana All-State Orchestra.