Edwin Maurice Outwater, born on April 12, 1971, in the United States, is an American conductor. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1993 with a degree in English literature and earned a master’s degree in conducting from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Outwater’s early career included positions with the Florida Philharmonic and as resident conductor for outreach and education at the San Francisco Symphony, where he also led tours and concerts with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. In 2004, his educational programs with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra were recognized with the Leonard Bernstein award for excellence in educational programming. Later on in 2007, he became music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, a post he held until 2017. Since April 2020, he has served as music director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra.
