THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | 2017-2018
Larry Rachleff serves
as director of
orchestras and
the Walter Kris
Hubert chair at
Rice University’s
Shepherd School of
Music in Houston.
During his career, he
has also been music
director of the Rhode
Island Philharmonic
and of the San
Antonio Symphony.
“A take-charge maestro who invests everything he
conducts with deep musical understanding” (Chicago
Tribune), Rachleff is in constant demand as a guest
conductor. Recent and upcoming engagements
include the Houston Symphony, Seattle Symphony,
Buffalo Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony,
Indianapolis Symphony, and Jacksonville Symphony.
Summer festival engagements include Tanglewood,
Aspen, Interlochen, Chautauqua, and Brevard Music
Festival, to name a few. He is also invited every year
to conduct the Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall.
A former faculty member of Oberlin Conservatory,
where he was music director of orchestras and
conductor of the Contemporary Ensemble, he also
served as conductor of the Opera Theatre at the
University of Southern California. An enthusiastic
advocate of public school music education, he
has conducted all-state orchestras and festivals
throughout the United States, Europe and Canada.
He has served as principal conducting teacher for the
American Symphony Orchestra League, Conductors’
Guild and International Workshop for Conductors in
the Czech Republic.
As a dedicated advocate of contemporary music,
Rachleff has collaborated with leading composers
including Samuel Adler, Luciano Berio, George Crumb,
Michael Daugherty and John Harbison, among others.
Larry Rachleff lives in Houston with his wife, soprano
Susan Lorette Dunn, and their son, Sam.
Violinist Jeffrey
Multer has been
r e c o g n i z e d
worldwide for
his passionate
p e r f o r m a n c e s ,
e x t r a o r d i n a r y
depth of musical
understanding and
brilliant technique.
A native of upstate
New York, Multer
made his Kennedy
Center debut in 1993,
and since that time he has appeared throughout
North and South America, Europe and Asia.
This year marks his eighth season as artistic director
of chamber music at the Eastern Music Festival. In
addition, he was appointed artistic director of the
newly formed Palladium Chamber Players in St.
Petersburg. Prior chamber music positions include
the Oxford Quartet, and in 2001, he joined the
critically acclaimed Elements Quartet, whose New
York series was named Best Classical Music Event of
2003 by The Washington Post.
Appointed concertmaster to The Florida Orchestra in
2006, he also serves as concertmaster at the Eastern
Music Festival. Past concertmaster appointments
include the Colorado Symphony, Breckenridge
Music Institute in Colorado, Washington Concert
Opera, and Echternacht Festival in Luxembourg. In
2012, Multer joined the “All-Star” orchestra in New
York City as associate concertmaster.
A committed educator, Multer is currently head
of violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival. He
has taught at the New World Symphony, National
Orchestra Institute at the University of Maryland,
Miami University of Ohio and in the pre-college
division of The Juilliard School.
Multer began violin studies at age 5. At 16, he
moved to New York City to continue studies at
The Juilliard School where he was the recipient of
a Lincoln Center Fellowship. His teachers include
Lewis Kaplan, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Gerald Fischbach
and Arnold Steinhardt.
LARRY RACHLEFF
Guest Conductor
JEFFREY MULTER
Violin
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