Ushering in a new era of artistic leadership, Fawzi Haimor is the newly appointed Music Director of the Marin Symphony, a title he assumed in July 2025. He becomes only the fourth Music Director in the orchestra’s distinguished 73-year history. Over the course of the 2025–26 season, Haimor will lead nine programs featuring a compelling range of repertoire—from symphonic masterworks to music by living composers such as John Psathas and Valerie Coleman, as well as works by the long-underrecognized Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel—reflecting his deep commitment to both tradition and innovation.

Praised for his “inspiring conducting”, his “sensitivity and his ability to create a defined, transparent sound” and his “sense of drama and his particular gift for strong, emphatic finishes,” Haimor’s international career has seen him leading distinguished orchestras throughout the US and around the world, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, as well as his upcoming debut with the Calgary Philharmonic.  This season he returns to the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University to conduct production of Ravel’s opera L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. From 2017 – 2020, Haimor was Music Director of Germany’s Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen.