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Repertoire

Couperin: La Sultane: Overture and Allegro
Chaminade: Concertino for Flute, Op. 107
Verdi: La forza del destino: Overture
Strauss: Divertimento (after F. Couperin’s keyboard works), Op. 86

Larry Livingston is a distinguished conductor, educator and administrator. The founding music director of the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Livingston has appeared with the Houston Symphony and in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series. He has conducted at the Festival de Musique in Evian, France. He served as music director of the Pan Pacific Festival Orchestras in Sydney, participated as a performer and clinician at the International Jazz Festival in Rome, and conducted an electro-acoustic ensemble in concerts in Tokyo under the auspices of Yamaha International. Livingston has led the American Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra, the USC Thornton Chamber and Symphony Orchestras in Los Angeles, and the USC Thornton Contemporary Music Ensemble in Berlin.

Livingston frequently appears with professional, festival, collegiate and all-state wind ensembles, bands and orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Livingston regularly toured Germany and Slovakia with the Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie. The performances and subsequent recordings were “the most successful in this organization’s history,” according to its director. In the last decade, he has conducted extensively in Eastern Europe, attracting consistent critical acclaim. Reviews described “long, unending applause, enthusiastic cheers, like at a rock concert, standing ovation.”

Since 2004, Livingston has toured with the famed Landes Jugend Orchester, served as clinician and guest conductor at the College Band Directors National Conference in Alice Tully Hall, and led All-State Ensembles in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Texas. He has also twice conducted the George Enescu Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania.

In 2008-09, Livingston will lead the Music for All Honor Orchestra for the third consecutive year, direct the Thornton Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, and guest conduct the Thornton Wind Ensemble.

From 1986 until 2002, Livingston served as dean of the USC Flora L. Thornton School of Music, where he is chair of the Conducting Department and music director of Thornton School Orchestras. He is a recipient of the Life in the Arts Award from Idyllwild Arts and an Outstanding Teacher Award from the student chapter of the USC Center for Religion.

H. Robert Reynolds is the principal conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thornton School of Music. This appointment followed his retirement, after 26 years, from the School of Music of the University of Michigan. He has also been, for 25 years, the conductor of The Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, which is made up primarily of members from the Detroit Symphony.

Reynolds has conducted recordings for Koch International, Pro Arte, Caprice and Deutsche Grammophon. He has conducted in many of the major concert halls of Europe and the United States.

Reynolds is past president of the College Band Directors’ National Association and the Big Ten Band Directors’ Association. He has received the highest national awards from Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, the National Band Association, the American School Band Directors’ Association and the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic, and he is the recipient of a “Special Tribute” from the Legislature and Governor of the State of Michigan.

He currently serves on the Awards Panel for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and he received a national award from this organization for his contributions to contemporary American music. He is conductor of the Tangelwood Institute Wind Ensemble, and he has guest conducted at the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory, the Oberlin Conservatory, Northwestern University, the National Arts Camp at Interlochen, and the National Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall.