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The American conductor, Martin Rutishauser, has distinguished himself as a choral, operatic, and orchestral conductor in the USA and in Europe. He is currently music director of the Brookhaven Choral Festival, the Ibex Chamber Orchestra of New York, The Collegiate Singers of New York City, and until his recent retirement, the Collegiate Upper School Chorus and Chamber Chorus. He has led these ensembles in concerts in New York, on Long Island, in Westchester and on tours to Spain, Italy and Switzerland. He has also conducted the Long Island Symphonic Choral Association in performances of George Frideric Handel's Israel in Egypt, Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, Monteverdi's Vespers, and J. Haydn's The Creation.
As an opera conductor, Martin Rutishauser has led performances for the Berner Stadttheater in Switzerland, the Lake George Opera Festival, the Liederkranz Foundation, and the Reimann Opera Theater at New York University. For many years, he also conducted annual concerts of operatic excerpts at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. As assistant conductor to Peter Maag, he worked in opera houses throughout northern Italy. His latest musical endeavor has been to learn the banjo, a pursuit viewed somewhat skeptically by his wife and children. |
