Eckart's Finale
As Eckartk Preu prepares to conduct the Spokane Symphony for the final time as its music director, we look back at his 15 years in Spokane. Read the story of Eckart Preu's tenure with the Spokane Symphony.
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Back in 2004, Eckart Preu was the final of five candidates to replace Fabio Mechetti as the Spokane Symphony's music director.
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Spokane Symphony music director Eckart Preu, second from right, takes part in a dance with Spokane Tribe member Adrianna Parr, 7, in March 2005 at Wellpinit High School. It was a night of cultural sharing, with the symphony and tribal members performing for each other.
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Eckart Preu is congratulated after being named music director for the Spokane Symphony at a press conference on Feb. 5, 2004, on stage at the Opera House (now the First Interstate Center for the Arts).
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Eckart Preu, the conductor of the Spokane Symphony, photographed in 2012.
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Spokane Symphony conductor Eckart Preu showed of some of his more formal attire from his small Browne's Addition apartment closet in 2005.
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Eckart Preu and the Spokane Symphony performed at Comstock Park during Labor Day weekend in 2013.
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Eckart Preu and the Spokane Symphony photographed at Comstock Park in 2013.
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Left to right, Luke Baumgarten, and Ginger Ewing of Terrain, and Eckart Preu, music director of the Spokane Symphony, prepare for rehearsal of the collaborative program Uncharted in 2016 at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox.
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German-born Eckart Preu is music director and conductor of the Spokane Symphony, photographed in the Fox Theater on April 22. Preu, who has been conductor since 2004, will retire next month from his roles with the Spokane Symphony, but will continue onward as conductor with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and as music director for the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra.
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