Ruth Charloff

Lecturer

E-mail: ruth.charloff@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-5412
Office: ARTS 164

Ruth Charloff is conductor of the UCR University Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Singers. She teaches both instrumental and choral conducting, instrumentation, 20th-century music history, and Introduction to Western Music, and at UCR has actively promoted new works as well as interdisciplinary and multicultural performance projects. In the San Francisco Bay Area she co-founded and conducted the chamber orchestra Hesperian Ensemble, conducted productions of Death in Venice and The Lighthouse with the Berkeley Contemporary Opera, and was choral director at St. Joseph the Worker Church. With Euterpe Opera Theater of Los Angeles and San Bernardino's Sinfonia Mexicana she conducted the West Coast première of the opera Esperanza. In Evanston, Illinois she guest conducted with the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, University Chorus, Early Music Collegium, and the North Shore Chamber Orchestra. Her DMA in orchestral conducting, with a dissertation exploring issues of phrase structure and performance, is from the Northwestern University School of Music. She received her M.A. in musicology at the University of California, Berkeley and her B.A. from Wesleyan University. Her conducting teachers have included Victor Yampolsky, Gunther Schuller, Kenneth Kiesler, Michael Senturia and Harold Farberman.

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