Official Website: http://www.kerrystratton.com/

In the course of his international career, Kerry Stratton has conducted orchestras in Europe, North America and Asia. Having earned a degree in conducting from McGill University in Montreal, Stratton later completed graduate studies at the Vienna Conservatory under Sir Charles Mackerras, Academia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and L'Ecole Pierre Monteux with Charles Bruck.

Kerry Stratton is Conductor and Music Director of the Toronto Philharmonia, the orchestra-in-residence at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Since 1992, he has also been Music Director for the Huntsville Festival of the Arts, Ontario. Stratton’s engagements have included the Hungarian Chamber Soloists, Prague Chamber Philharmonic, the Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, the Slovak Radio Orchestra, the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra,Orchestra London (Ontario),the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. In January 2001, he became the first Canadian to conduct the St. Petersburg Camerata in the Hermitage Theatre at the Winter Palace. He has also conducted performances with the Janacek Philharmonic, as well as the Prague Radio Orchestra.

For his services to Czech and Slovak culture, Stratton is the 2000 winner of the Masaryk Award.

Kerry Stratton is also committed to broadening the repertoire of both concert and recorded orchestral music. His recording on Dorian Records entitled Celestial Fantasy, features this and other works of American composer Alan Hovhaness. Included in his discography is the world premiere recording of Franz Liszt’s De Profundis with the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra on the Hungaroton label. A long-time devotee to Eastern European composers, Stratton recently recorded a collection of Czech and Russian works, Slavonic Serenades, with the Moscow Symphony on Dorian Records, which the Washington Post called "a delight." His latest compact disc features a Dvorak programme recorded with the Prague Radio Orchestra.