Alastair Willis

Alastair Willis is the principal conductor of Indiana's South Bend Symphony Orchestra. Raised and trained in various countries, he has a long record as conductor of various orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. Willis was born in Acton, Massachusetts, in 1971. His sister is hornist Sarah Willis, the first female member of the Berlin Philharmonic brass section. Willis' father, David K. Willis, was a journalist who served as Christian Science Monitor bureau chief in Moscow from 1976 to 1981 before the family moved from Moscow to Surrey, England. Alastair attended Bristol Universit...