Rachel C. Lauber
Brahms Orchestra Conductor
Conductor Rachel C. Lauber is Music Director of the Livingston Symphony Orchestra and is active as a freelance conductor and educator. She has conducted the 2005 Area All-State Orchestra in Rochester, New York and rehearsals for the Holland Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Civic Philharmonia. A committed educator, she assisted the Ann Arbor Symphony with their educational activities, including a workshop on conducting for the Girl Scouts.
She has previously directed the University of Michigan Campus Symphony, the Nazareth College Orchestra, and the Shady Side Chamber Music Festival Orchestra. She has ppeared as guest conductor with the Slee Sinfonietta, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, the University of Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra, the University at Buffalo Orchestra, The Eastman School of Music's Music Horizons Orchestra, and the Genesee Valley Orchestra and Chorus. For the University of Michigan Opera Productions she conducted two performances, Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica. In 2004 she was hired by the University Musical Society as a Musical Assistant to the Stage Manager for the production of William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Ms. Lauber has studied with Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan and with Magnus Martensson at the University at Buffalo. She has participated in conducting workshops in Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Catania International Conductor's Workshop in Sicily. Additional studies have included the Conductor's Retreat at Medomak with Mr. Kiesler, the Brevard Music Center with Gunther Schuller, the Oregon Bach Festival with Helmuth Rilling, and American Symphony Orchestra League.
In 2005, Dr. Lauber received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan in orchestral conducting. She did her Master's degree in Orchestral Conducting and Violin Performance at Bowling Green State University and a Bachelors degree in Violin Performance and Education at Ithaca College. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI.