music director

bridget-michaele reischl

The 2008/09 Season celebrates Bridget-Michaele Reischl’s 8th year with the GBSO. The first American to win the 1995 Antonio Pedrotti Conducting Competition in Italy, Ms. Reischl has appeared with numerous orchestras, such as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. She also serves as Music Director of the Oberlin Orchestras at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, a post she has held since 2005.

Ms. Reischl’s international career has included engagements with many orchestras throughout Europe. She has recently completed a concert tour of China and will return again to Italy this summer to conduct Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Upcoming domestic guest engagements include a return this season to the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and the Cantigas Women’s Chorale in New Jersey. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and student of Robert Spano, Ms. Reischl continued her studies as a conducting fellow at both the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals, working with Seiji Ozawa, David Zinman and Murry Sidlin. She has recorded with the following labels: Velut Luna, CRI, and Sea Breeze Record Company. Ms. Reischl is scheduled to record a new release this season on the Telarc label with internationally acclaimed harpist, Yolanda Kondonassis.