Join us for the 2011-2012 Concert Season
with Music Director, Robert Mirakian

Currently in his fifth season as Music Director of the Richmond Philharmonic, Robert Mirakian is continuing the orchestra's long history of artistic excellence and community involvement. He is in his third season as a member of the conducting staff of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra where he conducts educational, family, and pops concerts, and directs youth ensembles.This season is also his first as Assistant Conductor of Toledo Opera. A committed educator, Robert has served on the faculties of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA, and the University of Toledo, and frequently serves as a clinician and adjudicator of middle and high school ensembles.

Robert holds a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Donald Schleicher, served as the founding director of the Illini String Orchestra and worked as an assistant conductor to the Quad Cities Symphony. Robert is currently completing his doctorate at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, where he was an Associate Instructor in the school's opera department and studied with David Effron. A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Robert there distinguished himself as a Senior Fellow and Presidential Scholar while serving as Music Director of the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra and establishing the school's first summer orchestra. Other summers have found him working as Conductor and General Manager of the Brevard Music Center's Janiec Opera Company, and Assistant Conductor to the National Repertory Orchestra. Robert lives in Toledo, OH, with his wife Ashley and their two dogs, Gracie and Lucy.