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The
MCMC Intermezzo Orchestra is an intermediate level, full orchestra
with strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Most members are in
middle school or their early high school years. The orchestra
performs three times a year, in November, February and May, as part of an MCYO
concert.
Membership is the Intermezzo Orchestra is by audition.
The Intermezzo
Orchestra performing at Chicago's Field Museum in May 2007.
 Listen to an
excerpt of the Intermezzo Orchestra performing "Marche Militaire
Francaise" by Saint-Saens - WMA file - Windows Media Player
(Right-Click to download or Click to play)
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Russell Vinick serves as Music Director
and Conductor of the McHenry County Youth Intermezzo & Symphony
Orchestras. He also serves as Music Director and Conductor of the
Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra (Chicago), Chicago Metropolitan
Symphony Orchestra, and as a part-time music faculty member at
Columbia College of Chicago.
Vinick has been a guest conductor in
concerts with the Shandong Symphony Orchestra (China), Kunming
Symphony Orchestra (China), Virginia Symphony, Missouri Chamber
Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Illinois Valley
Symphony Orchestra, Macon (GA) Symphony Orchestra, Oak Ridge (TN)
Symphony Orchestra, Manchester (CT) Symphony Orchestra, University
of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra, and faculty members of Northeastern
Illinois University for the Henry Cowell Music Festival sponsored by
Mostly Music. He was the conductor for the world premiere recording
of Martin Blazevich’s Concerto Rustico for Marimba and String
Orchestra soon to be released on MSR Classics, Classical Record
Label.
Vinick was one of seven people
internationally selected to participate in the conducting program at
the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival in Santa Cruz, California
studying under Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier. He has served as
Assistant Conductor at the Pacific Music Festival (founded by
Leonard Bernstein) in Sapporo, Japan, under Christoph Eschenbach and
Michael Tilson Thomas. He has also been a participant in the
conducting program at the Aspen Music Festival. He has served as
Apprentice/Assistant Conductor for the Knoxville (TN) Symphony,
Chamber, and Youth Orchestras and Interim Music Director for the
Kingsport (TN) Symphony Orchestra. He has served as Music Director
of the Second Unitarian Church Choir and Lake Zurich (IL) High
School Orchestras.
Vinick earned a bachelor's degree in
Music Education from the University of Connecticut where he received
the Lottie Green Conducting Scholarship and studied with Peter
Bagley, Gary Green, and Paul C. Phillips. He earned a master's
degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles under Daniel Lewis where he received the
Conducting Departmental Award and music scholarships. Vinick has
also studied conducting with Kirk Trevor and Eiji Oue.
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