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Meet the Conductor
Larry Rachleff
Music Director and Principal
Conductor
Larry Rachleff will mark his twentieth
season as our Music Director and Principal
Conductor. He also serves as Music Director of
the San Antonio Symphony, as Music Director of the
Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Director of
Rice University's Shepherd School Orchestra in
Houston.
Mr. Rachleff has appeared as guest conductor with
such prestigious orchestras as the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Houston
Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
In 1988 he served as music director of the
American-Soviet Youth Orchestra tour. He has
conducted the Chopin Academy Orchestra in Warsaw,
the Sydney and Queenland Australia Conservatory
Orchestra, and led the Camerata Australia on their
tour of Japan.
He spent recent summers guest conducting at
Aspen, Tanglewood, the National Music Camp at
Interlochen, the Music Academy of the West with the
National Repertory Orchestra and Breckenridge
Chamber Orchestra, and as music director of the
Sunflower Music Festival in Kansas.
As a champion of public school music education,
Mr. Rachleff has conducted All-State orchestras and
festivals in virtually every state in the United
States, as well as in Europe and Canada. As a
proponent of contemporary music, he has collaborated
with composers Samuel Adler, Luciano Berio, George
Crumb, Dan Welcher and John Harbison.
Reviewers have been impressed. The Houston
Chronicle hailed Mr. Rachleff's concert with the
Houston Symphony as "a wonderful polished
performance... conducted with beauty and insight."
The Chicago Tribune in commenting on a
Rachleff-led Symphony II performance stated, "He
integrated his frequent tempo adjustments into
seamless paragraphs and textures so clean that inner
voices projected clearly.." Wynne Delacoma of
the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "... under
his baton, this orchestra sings."
Mr. Rachleff is married to soprano Susan Lorette
Dunn.
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