Interim Music Director

Richard Fazio

Originally from Pittsburgh, received his Master of Music and his Doctor of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from The Catholic University of America, School of Music. He also completed advanced studies in conducting at the Juilliard School, Philadelphia Professional Ensembles Institute, the Brockport Music Festival in New York, and the Summer Conductors’ Institute held at West Virginia University. His teachers include Giampaolo Braccali, Otto-Werner Muller, Robert Garofalo, Sergiu Commissiona, and Donald Portnoy. 
 
            Dr. Fazio served for five years as Artistic Director for The Metropolitan Bach Festival in Maryland and was Music Director/Conductor for the Washington Savoyards, a Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, for 11 years beginning in 1985. During that time he conducted the entire G&S repertoire, and is now on staff as a resident conductor. Maestro Fazio has also served as conductor for the Summer Opera Theatre Company in Washington, DC for their production of The Merry Widow and conducted the Catholic University Orchestra and the Trinity Chamber Orchestra for the Metropolitan Ballet Theater Company in Maryland.

Dr. Fazio is currently an instrumental music teacher in the Montgomery County Public School System where he has taught in both the elementary and secondary levels. In 2001 He was appointed as a part-time faculty member at the Catholic University of America as director of the Wind Ensemble and lecturer in Instrumental Music Curriculum & Pedagogy and Brass Methods. He also served as conductor for the Potomac Valley Youth Orchestra of Maryland and the Montgomery County Honors String Orchestras, and is currently music director/conductor for the Trinity Chamber Orchestra of Washington.