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Russell Vinick is in his 7th season as Music Director and Conductor
of the McHenry County Youth Orchestras. Vinick serves as the
Conductor of both the Symphony and Intermezzo Orchestras.
Some of the milestone achievements of MCYO within the past seasons
have been performances with concerto soloists from the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra; an international tour throughout Europe as part
of the Music Celebrations International Festival; relocating
performances to a professional concert hall- the newly renovated
Raue Center; world premiere performances of commissioned
compositions; the purchase of our own percussion equipment; and the
addition of a weekly brass instructor and the birth of the MCYO
Brass Ensemble.
In
addition to MCYO, Vinick also serves as Music Director and Conductor
of the Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra (Chicago), Chicago
Businessmen's Orchestra (Chicago's oldest community orchestra), the
2nd Unitarian Church Choir of Chicago, and as a part-time music
faculty member at Sherwood Conservatory in Chicago and Columbia
College of Chicago.
Vinick has been a guest conductor in concerts with the Virginia
Symphony, Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony Chamber
Orchestra, Macon (GA) Symphony Orchestra, Oak Ridge (TN) Symphony
Orchestra, Manchester (CT) Symphony Orchestra, University of
Tennessee Symphony Orchestra.
Vinick was one of seven people internationally selected to
participate in the conducting program at the Cabrillo Contemporary
Music Festival in Santa Cruz, California. He has also served as
assistant conductor at the Pacific Music Festival (founded by
Leonard Bernstein) in Sapporo, Japan, and has been 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, Interim Music Director for the
Kingsport (TN) Symphony Orchestra, Interim Music Director and
Conductor for the Macon (GA) Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Director
of Orchestras at Lake Zurich (IL) High School.
Vinick earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of
Connecticut where he received the Lottie Green Conducting
Scholarship and studied with 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 a student of Eiji Oue and Kirk
Trevor.
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