Grammy Award-Winning John McLaughlin to Conduct Palace Theatre's Productin of THE NUTCRACKER 11/25

The annual Southern New Hampshire Dance Theater's production of the timeless classic, The Nutcracker, will take the stage at the historic Palace Theatre in downtown Manchester Thanksgiving Day Weekend with six performances, Friday, November 25 through Sunday, November 27, 2011.

Join The Palace Theatre this holiday season as Southern New Hampshire Dance Theater's performing company, accompanied by a live Orchestra led by Grammy Award winning conductor John McLaughlin Williams, presents this timeless classical ballet at the historic Palace. For show times and ticket information call the Palace Theatre Box Office at 603.668.5588 or visit www.palacetheatre.org.

Grammy Award winning American conductor John McLaughlin Williams has been critically acclaimed for his outstanding interpretive abilities and engaging podium presence. John McLaughlin Williams is well-known to east coast audiences. He has been featured with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Civic Symphony of Boston, the Portland Symphony, the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Andover Chamber Players and others.

2007 Grammy Award-winner John McLaughlin Williams has been critically acclaimed for his outstanding interpretive abilities and engaging podium presence. Equally at home with the standard literature and the great romantic and early modern music written by American composers, it was with the release of his acclaimed recordings on the Naxos label, that his conducting became familiar to listeners on both sides of the Atlantic. With the National Symphony and Radio Orchestras of Ukraine, Williams has made world-premiere recordings of orchestral works by American composers both well-known and neglected for the Naxos label's celebrated "American Classics" series. He has been critically hailed in international publications, among them Fanfare, Gramophone, Classic FM, International Record Review, American Record Guide, and the French recording journal Diapason. His recordings appear on the Naxos, TNC, Artek, Cambria, and Afka labels. His most recent release, Quincy Porter: Complete Viola Works, recorded with Eliesha Nelson, appears on the Dorian label.

Williams has recorded chamber music for the Afka label and jazz with the Max Roach Double Quartet. His composition credits include work with Michael Kamen (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard) for the soundtrack to Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington, a documentary for the History Channel.