Michael Coren holds a bachelor's degree in music from the Eastman School of Music and a master's degree from Indiana University. Among his teachers are Ronald Leonard, Janos Starker, Claus Adam and Lev Aronson. A native of York, Pennsylvania, Coren has served as faculty at AIMS in Graz, Austria and TIFS in Dallas. Coren served for 15 years on the conducting staff of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra and was the founding director of its summer program. He is currently the music director of the Monday Night Orchestra.