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Kyle Wiley Pickett is the music director and conductor of the Juneau Symphony. He is also the music director and conductor of the North State Symphony, a northern California orchestra that makes its home in Chico, Redding, and Red Bluff, California. He recently returned from a guest conducting engagement with the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra in Guanajuato, Mexico.

A versatile musician, his conducting activities range from the symphony orchestra to opera to musical theater to choral work. Wiley Pickett is a frequent guest conductor on the west coast and is on the faculty in the music department at California State University, Chico. He previously held positions as music director with the Rogue Music Theater in southern Oregon and Assistant Conductor with the Peabody Conservatory Orchestra and Opera.

Wiley Pickett holds a doctorate of musical arts degree in orchestral conducting from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore where he studied with world-renowned teacher and conductor, Frederik Prausnitz. He also holds a bachelor's degree in music from Stanford University and a master's degree in choral conducting from the California State University at Chico. At both universities his conducting teacher was Dr. William Ramsey. Wiley Pickett is also an accomplished flutist, having studied with Frances Blaisdell and Robert Willoughby. He also trained in voice with Wayne Connor and Judith Bettina.

Dr. Wiley Pickett grew up in Los Gatos, CA. When he and his wife Alice, who is a stage actress and director, are not in Juneau, they live on Lake Shasta in Northern California.