Dingwall Fleary - Music Director & Conductor
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Maestro Fleary celebrates his 14th year as RCO music director and principal conductor.

B orn in St. Louis, Missouri, Maestro Fleary began playing piano at the age of seven.  He continued his music studies at Kansas and Northwestern Universities where he received honors and degrees in education and performance.  He later attended L'Academia De Musicale di Chigiana in Siena, Italy, excelling as a Conducting Fellow under Maestro Franco Ferrara.  His accomplishments during the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Conducting competition in 1971 opened guest conducting opportunities in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy.  He has appeared before principal orchestras in St. Louis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Buffalo, and Kansas City. During the Winter of 1992, Mr. Fleary traveled to Austria where he was one of four American conductors to participate in the Salzburg and Vienna Mozart Festivals.
M r. Fleary champions contemporary music and has been honored twice by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) for his innovative and adventurous programs and for being a standard bearer for American composers.

I n addition to the Reston Community Orchestra, Fleary is music director and conductor of the McLean Symphony.  He is currently Director of Music and Organist at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Bethesda, Maryland.  For five years, Mr. Fleary was a member of the Virginia Commission for the Arts and served as Vice Chairman during his last year.  He is a member of the Friday Morning Music Club of Greater Washington and served for three seasons as music director of Wolf Trap's International Children's Festival.  As a pianist, organist and harpsichordist, he enjoys a reputation as an excellent chamber musician, accompanist and coach.