The Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra

Founder and Director of the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra, Neal Hampton was born in New York City and raised in Philadelphia. He currently serves on the faculties of Brandeis University and Wellesley College and is Associate Conductor of the Plymouth Philharmonic (MA). 

Mr. Hampton has led performances with the Savannah Symphony, The Rhode Island Philharmonic, The Handel and Haydn Society, The Tallahassee Symphony (with Marcus Roberts), The Springfield (MA) Symphony, and London's Westminster Philharmonic (concert tour to Nova Scotia), among others.  Past conducting posts include Music Director of the Genesee (NY) Symphony, the Lowell (MA) Philharmonic, Founding Conductor of the Boston College Symphony Orchestra and Associate Director for Orchestra Activities at the Boston University School of Music,  

He has premiered numerous contemporary works and written music for ballet, theater and film, including incidental music for the Canadian Premier of Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days, a choral arrangement heard on the Columbia Pictures release of Mona Lisa Smile and Find Our Voice, commissioned by the Plymouth County School District and premiered by the Plymouth Philharmonic. 

Mr. Hampton’s musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, (book and lyrics by Jeffrey Haddow) received its world premiere at the Denver Center Theatre Company staged by Tony-nominated director, Marcia Milgrom Dodge. It played to enthusiastic audiences at England's famed Minack Theatre in 2024 and will be performed on tour throughout the UK in  2025.