Living a busy triple life in music, ASO Staff Conductor Jere Flint leads the popular Family Concerts and Symphony Street concerts for youngsters; he also regularly conducts on the SuperPops series, the Delta Classic Chastain summer series at Chastain Park, and other special concerts. As Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra (holder of the ASO?s endowed Zeist Foundation Chair), he directs weekly ASYO rehearsals and three major concerts a year, as well as other ASYO concerts throughout the season. When not on the podium, he is a member of the ASO's cello section, where he has performed for more than three decades.

Mr. Flint earned his bachelor's degree in music at Wittenberg University in Ohio, where, as assistant director of the school's noted choir, he arranged and conducted two Christmas recordings by the choir for Columbia Records. At the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received his master of arts degree in music in 1967, he served as manager of the university?s opera company and music director for the school of drama. He pursued further conducting studies with Otto-Werner Mueller.

The former music director of the Atlanta-Emory Orchestra, Mr. Flint has also conducted at the Brevard Music Center, Sewanee Summer Music Center, Southeastern Music Center in Columbus, Georgia, and numerous honors and all-state orchestras. He has served as conductor for a number of national touring companies of Broadway shows and Theater of the Stars productions.