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Russell Vinick is the Music Director
and Conductor of the Intermezzo and Symphony Orchestras for the
McHenry County Youth Orchestras. Under his direction, the
orchestras have had masterclasses and have performed concertos with
musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, they have performed
world premieres, and the Symphony Orchestra has performed and toured
on three European tours.
Vinick 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 Virginia Symphony, Missouri Chamber Orchestra,
Knoxville Symphony Chamber 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.
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 been mentored by Kirk Trevor and Eiji Oue.
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