William Schrickel has been the Music Director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra since 2000. A former Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, he was Music Director of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra from 2002-2008 and received a prestigious Award for Adventurous Programming from ASCAP and the League of American Orchestras in 2006. He has led performances of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, the Kenwood Symphony, The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota and The Musical Offering. 

Schrickel joined the double bass section of the Minnesota Orchestra in 1976, became assistant principal in 1995 and is currently the acting principal bassist. He has performed three times as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin and Andrew Litton. 

An active chamber musician, Schrickel has performed and recorded with the Hill House Chamber Players and the Minneapolis Artists Ensemble. He has participated in the Minnesota Orchestra’s Adopt-A-School music education program since 1993.