RPO Welcomes New Music Director
for 35th Anniversary Season

Join us for the 2007-08 Concert Season
in October welcoming our new
Music Director, Robert Mirakian.

Originally from Connecticut, incoming RPO Music Director Robert Mirakian has previously served as Music Director of the Dartmouth Chamber and Illini String Orchestras, as well as Assistant Conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra and Quad City Symphony Orchestra.

This summer he became the General Manager and Conductor of the Janiec Opera Company, at the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, NC, after spending a year as an Associate Instructor in the Jacobs School of Music’s opera department, and two years as an Assistant Conductor in the school's Opera and Ballet Theater. He has appeared in concert with the National Repertory Orchestra, the Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, the Jacobs School of Music Concert Orchestra, the University of Illinois Symphony, Chamber, and Philharmonia Orchestras, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble. 

He has completed conducting studies at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music with David Effron, the University of Illinois with Donald Schleicher, and Dartmouth College with Anthony Princiotti. 

He lives with his wife, Ashley, outside of Chicago and enjoys reading, cooking, and golf.