Yesterday's Professional Development Day was really special because we got to work with conductor, Dr. Rachel Lauber. See her bio below. She facilitated great discussion about why creativity and the arts are so important and how we have to give students more opportunities to create. The high school repertory orchestra came in on their day off to play while the teachers conducted. What an amazing orchestra we have here in Franklin! Here are Horace Mann and Remington's band directors working with Dr. Lauber. Thank you to Dr. Lauber for helping us really bring the score to life!
Dr. Rachel C. Lauber, Conductor
Rachel C. Lauber is instructor of Conducting at the Eastman Community Music School and is currently a freelance conductor.
Dr. Lauber has served as Music Director of the Livingston Symphony Orchestra, Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, and has appeared as guest conductor with the Romanian-American Music Festival (with members of the DSO), the Slee Sinfonietta, and the Holland Symphony Orchestra (MI). In Detroit, she shared the podium in concert with Neeme Jarvi, Tom Wilkins and Mark Wigglesworth. She was also director of the Detroit Symphony’s Unmasked Series working to plan camera shots, direct live cameras and collaborate with guest conductors (Nicolas McGegan, Roger Norrington, JoAnn Falletta, John Adams, Hans Graf and Tom Wilkins) on their pre-, post-, and interactive-concert discussions and lectures.
Other podium work includes conducting the University of Michigan Orchestras and the University at Buffalo Orchestra. For the University of Michigan Opera Productions she conducted performances of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica. She has directed the University of Michigan Campus Symphony, the Nazareth College Orchestra, and the Shady Side Chamber Music Festival Orchestra.
Ms. Lauber has studied with Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan where she received her doctorate in orchestral conducting. 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 numerous workshops of the Conductor’s Guild and the American Symphony Orchestra League. She has studied in Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Catania International Conductor’s Workshop in Sicily.
