In September, 2008, Yuri Ivan will return for his third season as Music Director of the Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Ivan has a wide variety of conducting experience. In 1996-2000 he served as a Resident Conductor for The State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine where he conducted Carmen, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Pagliacci, Eugene Oneguine, Die Fledermaus, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Don Quixote, The Swan Lake, La Fille Mal Garde and other productions. In 2001, Mr. Ivan was named Artistic Director of Trans-Carpathian Philharmonic, co-founded the Uzhgorod Youth Orchestra and the Young Virtuosi music festival in Ukraine. He also appeared with Lviv Opera, National Symphony-Pops Orchestra of Ukraine, Northern Hungarian Symphony. Currently Mr. Ivan is completing doctoral studies in conducting at the University of Minnesota School of Music. In 2007, Yuri Ivan was also named Artistic Director for Kenwood Symphony. He is fluent in five languages.