Irwin Hoffman
Irwin Hoffman was an American conductor active in New York.
Hoffman studied at the Juilliard School and was a protégé of Serge Koussevitsky, and he made his conducting debut at the age of seventeen with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Robin Hood Dell. He was music director of the Vancouver Symphony from 1952 to 1964, and served the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as assistant conductor, associate conductor, acting music director, and conductor.
Hoffman became the first music director of the Florida Orchestra in 1968. He was music director of the Bogotá Philharmonic, Colombia for one year, the Chile Symphony Orchestra for three seasons and Costa Rica's National Symphony Orchestra from 1987 to 2001.
Hoffman died in Costa Rica on March 19, 2018, aged 93.
