Roderick Cox (conductor)
Roderick Cox is a Germany-based American conductor. In 2018 he won the Sir Georg Solti Conductor award, the largest of its kind for an American conductor. He served as associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, a position he was appointed to in September 2016 after serving as assistant conductor for a year. Biography. Cox was born in Macon, Georgia. He attended the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, and then later attended and graduated from Northwestern University with a master's degree in conducting in 2011. During his time at Northwestern, he studied conducting  with Russian maestro Victor Yampolsky and acclaimed conducting pedagogue Mallory Thompson. Cox then went on to further his studies with Robert Spano at the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen, Colorado in 2013 and 2014 Career. Cox conducted the Northwestern University's various classical ensembles including the university's symphony orchestra. Cox was an assistant conductor with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra after graduating from Northwestern University. He became the music director and principal conductor of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra in 2012. He won the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize in 2013. In 2015, Cox began working as an assistant  conductor in the Minnesota Orchestra. He is currently an associate conductor and debuted his subscription concert series in January 2017. Cox has been described by the "Santa Fe New Mexican" as having a "fluid conducting style."