6- SEBRINA MARIA ALFONSO — South Florida Symphony Music Director
Now in its 18th season, the South Florida Symphony Orchestra may not be Sebrina Maria Alfonso’s life, but it certainly is her soul. As the orchestra’s musical director, the Key West native is one of the few female conductors of a major professional orchestra, and the solitary lesbian in the group. Having made her New York debut conducting the American Symphony Orchestra at the finals of the Stokowski International Competition in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Sebrina sees music as a way crossing all boundaries—religious, political, sexual, and social. And she has traveled the world to prove the point. She has been the guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Jose Symphony, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony, the Orchestra de Rús in Sienna, Italy, plus she was the first Cuban-American conductor invited to lead the National Orchestra of Cuba.
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