Dr. Paul-Elliott Cobbs is in his twenty-third year as Music Director and Conductor of the Everett Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Cobbs has brought the Everett Symphony Orchestra to a new level of artistic excellence. He has led the orchestra in two international performance tours including Vienna and Italy.

He is a world-renowned maestro who amazes and mesmerizes thousands of symphony goers with his down-to-earth personality and his talent for leading musicians through the widest range of music. Dr. Cobbs is an international conductor with conducting credits not only throughout the United States, but from Japan and Europe as well.

Cobbs began his conducting career at age 21 as the Associate Conductor of the Detroit Metropolitan Symphony, Principal Conductor of its chamber orchestra and frequent Guest Conductor of the Michigan Opera. While in Europe studying conducting at the Akademie für Musik, he was Principal Conductor of the Festival Chamber Orchestra in Vienna. In the Northwest, he has been Assistant Conductor with the Seattle Opera, Music Chair of The Northwest School of the Arts and Conductor of the Discover Music! community concert series with the Seattle Symphony. He is currently Music Director of Tacoma Youth Symphony in addition to his position with the Everett Symphony. Dr. Cobbs received his Doctorate in Conducting from the University of Washington and his Bachelors Degree in Music from Wayne State University.

Website: paulelliottcobbs.com