ALBANY (NY)
Times Union
January 3, 2019
By Joseph Dalton
In April 2016, the management and board of the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra were unable to reach their music director, Nathan Madsen. The ensemble, which was renamed the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra last fall, plays just four concerts a year and its final appearance of the season was coming up in May at the Quimby Theater on the campus of SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge.
When Madsen was hired for the part-time position in 2012, he was working as assistant conductor of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra in Texas. In 2014 he relocated to Florida, where he was a visiting professor of music and doctoral candidate at the University of Tampa.
Soon enough the Woodstock orchestra leadership found out why they’d lost touch with Madsen. In March 2016 in Tampa, he was arrested on charges of child trafficking and child pornography.
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