View Larry Rachleff on Auditions and Orchestral Careers

1. Conductors on Auditions (audio)
2. Conductors on Auditions: Intonation (audio)
3. Conductors on Auditions: The Final Round (audio)
4. Conductors on Auditions: Principal and Section Positions (audio)

Profile - Larry Rachleff

Larry Rachleff is Professor of Conducting and Music director of Rice University's Shepherd School Orchestras in Houston, and serves as Music Director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the San Antonio Symphony.

Mr. Rachleff has recently appeared as guest conductor with such prestigious orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Utah Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1993 he was selected as one of four American conductors to lead the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall under the mentorship of Maestro Pierre Boulez. A former faculty member of Oberlin Conservatory where he served as 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. In 1988, Mr. Rachleff served as the Music Director of the highly acclaimed American-Soviet Youth orchestra tour.

He has conducted and presented master classes at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, the Zurich Hochschule, and the Sydney and Queensland Australia conservatories. He is in constant demand as a conductor and master class clinician and is frequently invited to lead other conservatory orchestras such as those at The Juilliard School, England's Royal Northern College and The New England Conservatory. He has spent his summers conducting at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Aspen, Tanglewood, Interlochen, Music Academy of the West, and the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado. As an enthusiastic advocate of public school music education, Mr. Rachleff has conducted All-State orchestras and festivals in virtually every state as well as in Europe and Canada. He has served as a principal conducting teacher for the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Conductors' Guild and the International Workshop for Conductors in the Czech Republic. As a dedicated advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Rachleff has collaborated with leading composers, including Samuel Adler, the late Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Michael Daugherty and John
Harbison.