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DIETER
KOBER, Founder and Music Director
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obtained
his initial musical training as cellist and pianist in his native
Germany. He pursued formal academic studies at the University of Nebraska,
University of Chicago and Chicago Musical College from which he holds
a doctorate in musicology. He studied conducting with Rudolph Ganz
in Chicago and with Igor Markevitch at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In
l952 he founded the Chicago Chamber Orchestra as an amateur ensemble
at the University of Chicago. he was appointed music director of the
Art Institute of Chicago in l957, when the orchestra turned professional
and became affiliated as resident orchestra. With the Chicago Chamber
Orchestra’s expansion of activities as an independent cultural
service organisation and its own board of directors, Kober retained
his position as artistic director with the added responsibility of
heading administrative staff operations. His full-time duties also
included production and presentation of monthly radio programs on
classical radio WNIB “Music of the Chamber Orchestra”,
previewing live concerts by the orchestra. As Professor of Music he
has served 38 years on the faculty of the City Colleges of Chicago.
In 1959 he was appointed to the faculty of newly founded T-V College
of WTTW, Chicago’s educational television, He subsequently produced
and moderated “Invitation to to Music”, a presentation
of music personalities, guest artists, composers, conductors, critics
and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. As guest conductor and lecturer
he has appeared widely in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Awards and
citations include a Lifetime Achiement Award of the University of
Nebraska and the Medal of Merit, First Class, from the Federal Republic
of Germany in recognition of his contribution to international understanding
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EDWARD
BENYAS, Associate Conductor and Music Director Designate |
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received
a graduate degree in Orchestral Conducting and Oboe Performance from
Northwestern University, as well as Bachelor and doctorate in Law
degrees from the University of Michigan. His teachers include Ray
Still and Robert Morgan (oboe) and Victor Yampolsky, Charles Bruck
and George Tintner at the the Pierre Monteux School of Conducting
and International Workshop for Conductors. As oboist and later as
conductor he has had a long affiliation with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra
with which he made his European conducting debut on tour in l992.
Besides other European assignments, he has conducted various orchestras
in the Chicago area and currently serves as Director of Orchestral
Activities at the University of Southern Illinois. He directs the
Chicago Chamber Orchestra’s Illinois Touring program and collaborates
with the music director in the presentation of local concerts during
the season. |
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PETER
DABROWSKI, Associate Conductor |
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received
his initial music education in his native Poland. He obtained
his doctoral and masters degrees in conducting and piano performance
from Northwestern University. While completing his undergraduate
work, he attended both the Warsaw Music Conservatory in Poland
and the University of Utah in the U.S. He also participated
in master classes with the North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra,
as well as conducting programs at the Boston University Tanglewood
Center in Massachusetts and Aspen Music Festival in Colorado.
Before assuming the position of music director and conductor
of the Valley Symphony Orchestra and Chorale in Edinburg and
as faculty member of Panamerican University Texas he served
as conductor of the American University Symphony Orchestra in
Washington, D.C., the American Youth Concert Orchestra in Northern
Virginia and the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 1989
Dr. Dabrowski has been affiliated with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra
as assistant and associate conductor. Critics have acclaimed
him for “his rivoting interpretations, musical ingenuity
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JOHN
SHERER, Associate Conductor |
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a
native of Xenia, Ohio, he received his formal music education
from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
He then earned two master’s degrees at Yale University,
majoring in organ performance and art in religion and received
the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School.
His teachers include David Mulbury, Thomas Murray and John Weaver.
Since l996 Dr. Sherer has been organist and Director of Music
for the prestigious Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Since
l998 he has regularly appeared as soloist and conductor with
the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. Hailed by critics as “a
terrific musician.” A reviewer in The Diapason proclaimed,
“As usual, Sherer communicated both the demanding and
subtle qualities of the program through utilizing both his remarkable
virtuoso technique and his sensitive musical sense to serve
the requirements of the music.” Dr. Sherer has performed
numerous recitals throughout the country. |
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ROBERT
DEBBAUT, Guest Conductor |
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a
native of California Robert Debbaut holds the degree Doctor
of Musical Arts in Conducting from the University of Michigan,
as well as degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Conservatory and Southwest Missouri State University. His teachers
and mentors include the late Maurice Abravanel, Glenn Block,
Neeme Järvi, Gustav Meier and Helmuth Rilling. He has led
orchestras and opera companies in the United States as well
as in Central America, Asia and Europe. Among the many ensembles
he has guest conducted in the U.S. are the Chicago Chamber Orchestra,
Dearborn, Milwaukee, Hartford, Salt Lake City, Louisville, Minnesota,
Rochester and New World symphony orchestras. Past and recent
engagements abroad include the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Ochestra,
and North Bohemian Philharmonic in Prague's famous Dvorak Hall,and
symphony orchestras in St.Petersburg, Novgorod, Kharkov, Belgrade,
San Juan, Guatamala and Shanghai. Robert Debbaut has been called
"a world-class conductor" (Salt Lake Tribune) possessing
"an incisiveness verging on the dance" (Kansas City
Star) and as "a conductor with the force of emotions in
his direction." (Prensa Libre Guatemala). His Chicago Chamber
Orchestra program “Mozart for Lovers” was a highlight
of the season.
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