Charles’ 2013-2014 season conducting schedule has been added. Click here to view

Charles is one of three finalists for the Music Director position with The Jackson Symphony, in Jackson, TN. He will conduct three concerts in Jackson in the 2013-2014 season: October 18 and 19, 2013, featuring Jeff Nelsen, horn. February 8, 2014, featuring Laurice Lanier, vocalist. Read The Jackson Sun’s coverage of the press conference announcing the Symphony’s finalists...

By Peter Jacobi Bloomington Herald Times 2/26/2013 A close to full house of listeners bore witness on Sunday afternoon in the auditorium of Bloomington High School North as the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra continued three important traditions. The first was simply to play another concert during this, the institution’s 43rd season, an enviable record. And considering how well the orchestra is playing these days under its music director...

Peter Jacobi Bloomington Herald Times 9/24/2012 One noticed few if any mustaches on stage at Bloomington High School North Saturday evening but heard a whole lot of melodies during a Bloomington Symphony Orchestra concert labeled “Mustaches & Melodies.” The BSO’s music director, Charles Latshaw, had designed the program with the help of a committee of players, a program that focused on music of three melodists: Brahms, Faure...

Peter Jacobi Bloomington Herald Times 4/30/2012 The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s closing concert of the season was labeled “Finale Fantastique,” in reference to the presence on the program of the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz. The label, however, could well have been applied to the way the orchestra played that work on Saturday evening at Bloomington High School North. It was praiseworthy and gained a cheers-dotted...

Peter Jacobi Bloomington Herald Times 5/2/2011 It was definitely an evening for strings on Saturday, when the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra performed in St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, there with ending its 41st season. Music director Charles Latshaw had titled the program “Violapalooza!” And to give substance to that title, he had invited Michael Strauss, principal violist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, to be a...

By Peter Jacobi H-T Columnist 9/26/2010 The atmosphere in the Orchestra Room on a mid-September Tuesday evening was totally relaxed. Chatting, laughter and instrumental warm-ups mingled as members of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra gathered and prepared for their 7 to 9:15 p.m. rehearsal.  Not long before starting time, their leader, their conductor, their music director, Charles Latshaw, joined them, did some chatting of his own, and...