Noteworthy

Tireless conductor has made Space Coast Symphony special

Now in his early 40s, Aaron Collins launched the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra while still in his 20s. TOM WILBY

Aaron Collins, founder, conductor and artistic director of the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, isn’t giving away secrets, but surely he must have discovered a way to clone himself. Otherwise, how can one man do so much?

The symphony Collins founded in 2009, when he was in his early 20s, seems to be constantly performing in Brevard and Indian River counties. The orchestra is as firmly sewn into the cultural fabric of the Treasure Coast as it is in the Space Coast.

Maria Sonnenberg
professor at Florida Institute of Technology | msonnenb32904@yahoo.com

Maria is a prolific writer and proofer for Space Coast Living and an adjunct professor at Florida Institute of Technology’s Nathan M. Bisk College of Business. When not writing, teaching or traveling, she can be found waging a one-woman war against her lawn and futilely attempting to maintain order among the chaos of a pack of extremely clueless wirehair dachshunds and an angst-driven basset hound.