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Richard Yaklich – Biography Dr. Richard E. Yaklich, currently serves as an Associate Professor of Music at Florida Memorial University; Former Conductor of the South Florida Youth Symphony (2002-2013) and the former Director of the Jubilate Chamber Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Kingsport Symphony and Music Director of the Kingsport Youth Symphony He has conducted orchestras throughout the United States and Eastern Europe including the Maikop Philharmonic and the Sochi Symphony Orchestra in Russia. He will conduct in Romania later in 2016. Dr. Yaklich has conducted the Alhambra Orchestra of Miami, FL on several occasions. Dr. Yaklich is also a certified orchestra adjudicator for the Florida Orchestra Association and has adjudicated orchestra festivals throughout the state of Florida. He attended the Tanglewood Music Center where studied conducting with such musical notables as Gustav Meier, Charles Dutoit, Leon Fleisher, Maurice Abravanel, and Seiji Ozawa. While studying at the Conductor’s Institute in 1993, he had master classes with Donald Portnoy, Samuel Jones, Larry Newland, and Paul Vermal. In addition to his conducting activities, he is an active cellist and composer and has had works performed by the Colorado Symphony and in Romania. His composition, “Theme and Variations for Orchestra” was performed by the South Florida Youth Orchestra in January of 2003, and “In Memorium” was given its world primer at the University of Miami in 2007. A winner of the Walter Charles Conducting Fellowship, Colorado Arts and Humanities Grant and the Allied Arts, Inc. grant, he has also been listed in “Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities.” A member of the Gustav Mahler Society, American Symphony Orchestra League and the Conductor’s Guild, he has published a book on orchestra repertoire which was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2003 (www.mellenpress.com), “The Struggle for Life in the Middle Ages and the Chaos of the Renaissance was published by Author House (www.authorhouse.com) in 2009. In 2010 Linus Publications published his text book on Music Form and Analysis. He is currently working on a book about conductor Eugene Ormandy and how Ormandy created the “Philadelphia Sound.” It will be published in 2016 by Mellen Press. Dr. Yaklich received his

Richard Yaklich – Biography

bachelor’s degree in 1989 from the University of Southern Colorado; his Master’s degree in music from Colorado State University and his Doctorate in 1996 the University of South Carolina. Dr. Yaklich is now Director of Assessment at Florida Memorial University. He is a native of Pueblo, CO and grew up playing cello, first in the Pueblo Youth Symphony and latter with the Pueblo Symphony, Mozart Chamber Orchestra and Pueblo Jazz Orchestra. He is an avid reader of history and Russian novels, he collects classical music CDs and scores.

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire

Sample Orchestra Programs Full Orchestra W. Schumann American Festival Overture W. A. Mozart Piano Concerto No 26 Rimisky-Korsakov Scherazade S. Barber First Essay for Orchestra R. Schumann Piano Concerto R. Yaklich In Memoriam Dvorak Symphony No 7 Brahms Tragic Overture Berg Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No 1 Franck Le Chausser Maudit Grofè grand Canyon Suite Nielsen Symphony No 5 Gould American Salute Copland Clarinet Concerto

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire R. Schumann Symphony No 3 Stravinsky Fireworks Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No 15 Chamber Programs Mozart Wind Serenade No 12 Dvorak Wind Serenade, Op 44 Grieg Holberg Suite W. Schumann Symphony for Strings Kalinikov Chanson Triste Suk String Serenade Mozart Horn Concerto No 3 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 8 E. Bloch Concerto Grosso Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 Orchestra Suites Nos. 1-4

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire Barber, S. Adagio for Strings First and Second Essay for Orchestra First Symphony Bartok, B. Concerto for Orchestra Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-9 Violin Concerto Triple Concerto Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 Overtures to: Egmont, Fidelio, Coriolanus, Lenore Nos. 1-3, King Stephan, Ruins of Athens. Berlioz Harold in Italy Symphonie Fantastique Bernstein West Side Story Dances Bizet Symphony No 1 Carmen Suites Nos. 1&2 L’Arlesiene Suite No. 1 Bloch, E. Concerto Grosso No 1 Brahms Symphonies Nos. 1-4 Violin Concerto Double Concerto Piano Concertos Nos. 1-2 Serenade in D Tragic Overture Academic Festival Overture Hayden Variations German Requiem

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire Briten, B. Simple Symphony Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 1-9 Chabrier Espana Chopin Piano Concertos Nos. 1-2 Copland Lincoln Portrait Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo Appalachian Spring Outdoor Overture Cowell Hymn and Fugeing Tune, No 3 Debussy La Mer Nocturne Dvorak Symphonies Nos. 6-9 Cello Concerto Slavonic Dances Op 46 Caravel Overture Symphonic Variations; Serenades Op 22 & 44. Elgar, E Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Falstaff Symphonic Study Enesco Romanian Rhapsody No 1 Gould American Salute Grieg Piano Concerto Holberg Suite Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire Giannini Symphony No 2 Grofe Grand Canyon Suite Handel Concerti Grossi Op 3 Nos. 1-6, Op 6 Nos. 1-12 Water Music Suite (arr. Harty). Hanson Symphony No 2 Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis Symphony in E-flat Haydn Symphonies Nos. 82-104 Honegger King David Mahler Symphonies Nos. 1-9, No 10 Adagio Das Klagende Lied Ruckert-Lieder Das Lied Von Der Erde Symphonic Movement “Blumine” Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos. 1, 3-5 Midsummer’s Night’s Dream Incidental Music Violin Concerto Hebrides Overture String Symphony No 8.

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire Mozart Symphonies Nos. 35-41 Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 Piano Concertos Nos. 11-27 Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5 Adagio and Fugue for Strings, op 546 Eine Kleine Nacht Musik Symphonia Concertante. Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) Orff Carmina Burannia Nielsen Symphonies Nos. 1-6; Flute Concerto Pendereski Threnody Prokofiev Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 Romeo and Juliet Suites Nos. 1 & 2 Alexander Nevesky Cantata Peter and the Wolf Lt. Kije Suite. Rachmaninoff Symphony No 2 Symphonic Dances Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 Paganini Variations Respighi Pines of Rome Roman Festivals Fountains of Rome Rimisky-Korsakov Scherazade

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire Rossini Overtures to: William Tell La Cenerentola La Italiana in Algeria Barber of Seville La Gaza Ladra Il Viaggio a Remis Il Turco in Italia La Scala di Seta Le Siege de Corinth Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 Cello Concerto Piano Concerto No 2 Bacchanale Schubert Symphonies Nos. 4-6, 8 &9 Schumann, R Symphonies Nos. 1-4

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 Symphonies Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 15 Festival Overture Piano Concerto No 1 Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 1-7 Violin Concerto En Saga Finlandia Valse Triste Karelia Suite Swan of Tuonela Oceanides Pohjola’s Daughter Night Ride and Sunrise

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire Strauss, R Don Juan Ein Heldenleben Till Eulenspiegle Tod und Varklarung Don Quixote Alpine Symphony Metamorphosen Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto Suk Serenade for Strings Suppe Overtures to: Poet and Peasant Pique Dame Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 1-6 Manfred Symphony Violin Concerto Rococo Variations Piano Concertos Nos. 1-2 Francesca da Rimini Marche Slave Capriccio Italian Romeo and Juliet Overture Serenade for Strings 1812 Overture Verdi Requiem Overtures to La Forza Del Destino

Richard Yaklich – Repertoire Wagner Flying Dutchman Overture Tannhauser Overture Tristan und Isode Prelude Die Meistersinger Prelude Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music Parsifal Prelude

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Conducting Sochi Symphony (Russia) Schubert Symphony No 8 (Excerpt from last movement) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC1lrs00cnc Performances Mozart - Der Schauspieldirektor Overture – South Florida Youth Symphony Dr. Richard Yaklich, Conductor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl-A0ZfU6yI&feature=youtu.be Smetana – Bartered Bride Dances – South Florida Youth Symphony/Greater Miami Youth Symphony Dr. Richard Yaklich, Conductor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au3km16WL5Y Astor Piazzolla -OBLIVION Performed by Joe Donato - Alto Saxophone South Florida Youth Symphony, Dr. Richard Yaklich, Conductor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRJbtCqGDsk Rossini- L'italiana in Algiers - South Florida Youth Symphony Dr. Richard Yaklich, Conductor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbSqRcfFuTs Rehearsal Smetana – Bartered Bride Dances – South Florida Youth Symphony/Greater Miami Youth Symphony Dr. Richard Yaklich, Conductor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFG-e_JHms

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