Bridget-Michaele Reischl New Conductor of Oberlin Orchestras

	Photo by Studio 44, De Pere, WI.

Bridget-Michaele Reischl, music director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra since 2001, will join the Oberlin faculty in July as visiting associate professor of conducting and music director of the Oberlin Orchestras. She will retain her directorship of the Green Bay Symphony.

Since becoming the first American to win Italy's Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in 1995, Reischl has been an active guest conductor internationally and throughout the United States. Some of her recent engagements include those with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the Dayton Philharmonic as well as numerous orchestras throughout Italy and Greece.

From 1992 through 2004, Reischl was music director of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and associate professor of conducting at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin.

“Bridget Reischl is a phenomenal musician and teacher and a very gifted conductor,” says Dean of the Conservatory David Stull. “We are enormously pleased to be bringing her to Oberlin.”

Reischl is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. As a student of Robert Spano '83, she continued her studies as a conducting fellow at both the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Festival, where she worked with Seiji Ozawa, David Zinman'58, and Murray Sidlin. She is recorded on the Velut Luna, CRI, and Sea Breeze Record Company labels.

At Oberlin, Reischl will teach two courses in conducting each year plus rehearse and conduct the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra and the Oberlin Orchestra. Her first concert will be with the Oberlin Orchestra on Sunday, October 2, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel. The program will feature Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, Sydor's Virtuti Militari, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10. Reischl will also conduct the spring opera, The Merry Wives of Windsor, in March 2006.