Thursday’s (5/29) Naples News (Naples, Florida) reports that Max Rabinovitsj has been appointed conductor and artistic director of the Naples Orchestra and Chorus. He takes over from Robert Dale Herrema, director for the past six years, who resigned this spring. “Rabinovitsj has been a prolific teacher as well as a violin soloist, orchestral and chamber musician and conductor…. The Belgium-born Rabinovitsj attended the Royal Brussels Conservatory of Music (Belgium) and is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music. In addition to St. Louis and Cincinnati, he has been the concertmaster of the Ottawa (Ontario) Philharmonic, the New Orleans Symphony, the Nice (France) Orchestra and the Gulbenkian (Portugal) Orchestra. In chamber music, he participated at the Marlboro Music Festival for six years, and founded the St. Louis String Quartet, which was in residence at Washington University…. Rabinovitsj has been a professor at Washington University, the University of Texas and the University of Evora (Portugal). He also has taught at the Nice Conservatory (France) and Edgecliff Academy in Cincinnati. He lives in Naples, with his wife, Mary. The Naples Orchestra and Chorus is an intergenerational community orchestra with unpaid performers and professional guest artists … [with a] four-concert season…. The organization has just celebrated its 20th anniversary.”
Posted May 30, 2014
