| Biography | Edwin Outwater is an American conductor. From September 2007 until 2017, he served as the music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario. From 2001 to 2006, Outwater was resident conductor of the San Francisco Symphony.
Before that, from 2001 to 2005, he was the Wattis Foundation music director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, where he led the orchestra in all of their concerts as well as on tour to Europe in 2004. During the tour, the orchestra made its debut at Vienna's Musikverein and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and returned to Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. In 2019, he conducted the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra with Metallica for the S&M2 shows and live album. In 2020 he collaborated with guitarist Kirk Hammett on his solo debut "Portals" co-writing the songs "High Plains Drifter" and "The Incantation" as well as playing keyboards and conducting the orchestral arrangements. |