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MAESTRO RINK
Since 1990, Artistic Director Jeffrey Rink has led Chorus pro Musica to
critical acclaim in the full gamut of the choral repertoire.
Under his leadership, the Chorus has sung the New England premiere of La Cantata Criolla
of Antonio Estévez, and performances of Walton's Belshazzar's
Feast and Bizet's Carmen in Symphony Hall.
Proclaimed “among the best of his generation of conductors”
(El Economista, Mexico City), Maestro Rink has received exceptionally high praise
for opera. T. J. Medrek of the Boston Herald called him
“an opera conductor to be reckoned with” (June 2001), and Richard Dyer of
The Boston Globe declared, “Once again [Jeffery Rink] proved himself a
capable and committed operatic conductor; he knows the way to establish concert
opera in Boston is to do it right” (June 2000). In a June 2001
review of Verdi's Macbeth, Lloyd Schwartz of the Boston Phoenix
noted Rink's “clear sense of Verdi's dramatic and musical design [and]
wide dynamic variety” and deemed him “Boston's pre-eminent Verdi
conductor.” Rink is the 2005 recipient of the New England Opera Club's
Jacopo Peri Award for outstanding contributions in the art of opera.
Maestro Rink has frequently appeared as a guest conductor with
the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica de
Monterrey (Mexico), and has conducted the Adrian (MI) Symphony, the
Tallahassee (FL) Symphony, and the L’Orchestre de Sherbrooke in
Québec. In 1993, he made his Asian debut conducting concerts in
Manila that featured Metropolitan Opera soprano Barbara Kilduff.
Engagements have included concerts with the L’Orchestre de Fribourg (Switzerland),
the Nashua Symphony Orchestra, the Tuscaloosa Symphony (AL), and the Baltic
State Philharmonic in Poland. He recently completed a return engagement
with the Baltic State Philharmonic where he was the only American
invited to participate in the millenium celebration of the city of
Gdansk. In December 2004, he made his debut with the Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra and Telemann Chamber Orchestra in Osaka.
Jeffrey Rink became Music Director of the Newton Symphony since 1998, following an
eight-year tenure as Conductor of the New England Philharmonic during
which he won four ASCAP awards for adventuresome programming and
commitment to new music, and has been Director of Orchestral Activities at the Longy School
of Music. He is also Music Director of Concert Opera Boston.
For the 2007–08 season, Maestro Rink has been selected as
conductor of the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and
appointed to the Mattie Kelly Distinguished Endowed Teaching Chair in Music and
Conducting at Okaloosa-Walton College.
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