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Duilio Dobrin’s 500th performance at the helm of the Florida Philharmonic
Orchestra was described by James Roos of the Miami Herald as “…beautifully drawn
out, with a wonderful sense of flow and an understanding of precisely how the
musical line should unfold…”He further stated, regarding Cesar Frank’s Symphony
in D, that Dobrin had “…caught the almost religious aura of its mystical dusk;
understood precisely how the horns and winds simulate the reed stops of an
organ; gave the English horn solo, exquisitely played, its unhurried space; and
stirred up the finale to an incandescent glow.”
Argentine-born Dobrin’s twenty-year professional career
includes eight years as Resident Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra
(including a season as the principal conductor) and the Music Directorship of
the Chamber Orchestra of Connecticut, which was comprised of musicians from the
New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera. The COC received frequent praise
from Robert Sherman of the New York Times. He has shared the stage with artists
ranging from Pinchas Zuckerman to Celia Cruz and has led professional orchestras
from New York to Munich and Tokyo to Buenos Aires.
Duilio Dobrin has been recently engaged by the Teatro Colon
in his native Buenos Aires, and has served as Artistic Advisor to the Nicossia
Music Society Chorus, offering master classes in Vienna, Austria and Bled,
Slovenia. He has also led the Munich Philharmonic, Solingen Symphony Orchestra
(Germany), St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Savaria Chamber Orchestra (Hungary),
Juilliard Philharmonia, Nashville Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, the Orchestre
Symphonique du McGill in Montreal, the National Radio, National Symphony,
Rosario and Bahia Blanca Symphony Orchestras of Argentina, Oregon’s Summersing
choral festival and the Cathedral Arts Series concerts in Miami.
In keeping with his life-long passion for Music Education,
Dr. Dobrin is now serving for the Dallas Independent School District at the
Greiner Academy for the Fine and Performing Arts and is developing new string
programs in two scio-economically challenged areas of Dallas. He also served,
from 2001 through 2003, as Artistic Director and Conductor of the OU Symphony
Orchestra in Oklahoma and Music Director for OU's Opera Theater. At OU, he has
led performances of Mahler's Second, Beethoven's Ninth (hailed as "...the
greatest musical event in the University's history..." by Norman Living
Magazine) as well as operas such as L'Elisir d'Amore, Cosi Fan Tutte, Die
Fledermaus and A Little Night Music.
Dobrin also created the LatinPops® Series for the Florida
Philharmonic. LatinPops® was lauded as “…a paroxysm of passion…” by the Diario
las Americas. As one of the country’s most exciting concepts in "Pops"
programming, this series generated a wide showing of new subscribers, donors,
and corporate sponsorships and received consistent ovations by the South Florida
public. His community-wide visibility also earned him the honor of being
included in Enrique Cordoba's book "Cien Voces de America" as one of the top one
hundred personalities from Latin America in 1998. Duilio’s flow of creative
talent also birthed award winning educational programs, including Imagine That!
during which he portrayed the role of Albert Einstein, and Bach is Back.
On the international competition circuit, Dobrin was a top
prizewinner in the 1991 Masterplayers Conducting Competition in Lugano,
Switzerland. He was also a winner in the Exxon/Affiliate Artists Arts Endowment
Conductor’s Program and was the only American to have reached the finals of the
Tokyo International Competition in 1988. As a pianist, he won the National
Endowment for the Arts competition in his native Argentina.
Equally at home as a composer and arranger, Dr. Dobrin’s
catalogue include a Mass, a Sabbath Service, a special arrangement of the theme
song for “CBS This Morning," which was televised nationally, as well as vocal
works and orchestral arrangements of Queen, Glenn Frey and others. Dobrin
presently has a contract with Warner Chappell in London for his 1992 Jerusalem
Fantasy. Other commissions have included an arrangement of Porgy and Bess for
the English Chamber Orchestra (1995), and an orchestral Homage to the late Astor
Piazzola (1996), as well as over seventy orchestral arrangements of Latin
American music for artists such as the aforementioned Celia Cruz, Libertad
Lamarque, Cachao and Bon Jovi's drummer, Tico Torres. Recent commissions include
sixty new settings of High Holy Day music for the Reform Synagogue, a work for
five African marimbas and orchestra by the Corvallis (OR) Youth Symphony
Orchestra and six of Piazzola's tangos for bandoneon and piano.
Duilio Dobrin has had the privilege of working with mentors
such as Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood, Sergiu Celibidache in Munich, and Otto
Werner-Mueller with a scholarship to Yale University, where he received a
Certificate of Doctoral Studies in Conducting. He also holds a Doctor of Arts
degree in Conducting and Piano, Organ and Harpsichord and a Master of Music from
Ball State University. This school also named him winner of the Outstanding
Alumnus Award in Music for 1995. Mr. Dobrin received a Gold Medal baccalaureate
from the National Conservatory of Music in Argentina, graduating first in his
class. In 2000, Duilio Dobrin was given a special commendation and blessing from
His Holiness Pope John Paul II for his contributions to liturgical music.
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