Mr. Raffael Adler

Raffael Adler, founder and artistic director of the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra will begin with the Schubert Overture.

"...under the direction of Raffael Adler the NY Pro Arte exhilarated the SRO audience with a performance of precision playing and full bodied sound. (Basler Volksblatt, Switzerland) " ...outstanding mastery of the New York Pro Arte... " (The Evening Leningrad, USSR) "...The rhythmic figure of the Finale...was passed around the ensemble with the expertise and artistry of musicians emulating the dexterity and skill of the Harlem Globe Trotters... They deserve an Edinburgh Festival morning series where they would be really appreciated ..."(Hampstead & Highgate Express, London, England) ...There was a freshness, vitality, straight forward healthy American spirit, and of an uninhibited performance based on a realistic and unconcealed fact of complete knowledge. Mozart's Divertimento in D major will hardly be played with more style and brightness at the Mozarteum in Salzburg..." (Uussi Suomi, Helsinki, Finland) "... joined by the excellent New York Pro Arte ....The orchestra under Raffael Adler, played with fire and feeling, and the rapport between conductor and soloist seemed complete..." (The New York Times) Raffael Adler: "...the orchestra is directed by Raffael Adler, who won the recognition of music connoisseurs with his skill and ease conducting complicated musical compositions..." (Sovetskaya Kultura, Moscow, Russia)
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"...Brahms' Piano concerto in D minor was the perfect vehicle for the combined talents of Garrick Ohlsson, Piano, and Raffael Adler, the principal Conductor and Music Director of the Westchester Symphony Orchestra. Both these gentlemen have a flair for flamboyance, and found this work ideal for their individual styles. This collaboration brought a new dimension to Brahms' masterpiece..." (Recorder Dispatch, White Plains, NY) "...The Concert performed by Adler and the Kiev Camerata, in the concert Hall filled to capacity, was a great success. It was an excellent concert, and a great experience...The complete rapport between him and the orchestra was very evident..." (Pravda Ukraine, Kiev) "...Raffael Adler, a painstaking conductor, understands this music and imparted a buoyant and irresistible lilt..." (The New York Times) "...Raffael Adler, an obviously intense, meticulous, thorough and alert authority, very skillfully directed the performance of each individual player, as well as that of the whole orchestra...there was a stamp of freshness, vitality...based on a r\realistic, unconcealed fact of complete knowledge..." (Uussi Suomi, Helsinki, Finland)

Raffael Adler, Founder and Artistic Director of the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, appeared as conductor throughout the United States, from New York to Los Angeles via Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Honolulu and in Europe form Amsterdam, to Basel, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, with stop-overs in Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hamburg, Leningrad, Moscow, Paris, Wroclaw and Jerusalem, among others. Music critics and audiences alike, have praised his musicianship and stylistic authority.

During the past three seasons, Mr. Adler has conducted the Philomusica Chamber Orchestra at the "Spoleto Festival USA" in Charleston, SC., the Kiev Camerata, at the 1996 "International Musik-Fest for Contemporary Music" in Kiev, Ukraine, the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Wroclaw, Poland as well as the "Long Island (NY) Pops Orchestra".
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A champion of American Music, Raffael Adler has premiered many works by American composers, such as Seymour Barab, Meyer Kupferman, Norman Dello Joio, Paul Reiff and Timothy Moes, to name but a few.
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Mr. Adler has recorded for Radio NDR-Hamburg and RIAS-Berlin, Germany; Radio Holland-Hilversum; Radio France-Paris; Radio Israel-Jerusalem and for the MHS and Collectors Guild Label.

Raffael Adler, Artistic Director
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Raffael Adler
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The masterful technique of this group of inspired soloists under the leadership of its founder, Raffael Adler, has received acclaim from audiences and critics in New York, major cities in the USA, and capitals in Europe, for unsurpassed virtuosity.

Raffael Adler, Artistic Director with the New York Harp Ensemble, arr.
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and Raffael Adler Guild Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Raffael Adler