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Larry J. Livingston
Larry J. Livingston

Role(s):

Artistic Director of Honor Orchestra of America, Music for All National Festival Clinician, Orchestra Advisory Council, Summer Symposium Faculty

Specialties:

Conducting, Orchestra

Affiliations:

Larry Livingston is an orchestral and wind band conductor, motivational speaker, former CEO of four of America’s premier music schools, nationally known arts leader, author, clinician, professional consultant, and improvising pianist. The founding Music Director of the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Livingston has appeared with the Houston Symphony and in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series. He has conducted at the Festival de Musique in Evian, France, and has led the Stockholm Wind Orchestra, as well as the Leopoldinum Chamber, Chopin Academy, and Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestras in Poland. He served as Music Director of the Pan Pacific Festival Orchestras in Sydney, participated in the International Jazz Festival in Rome, and conducted electro-acoustic ensemble concerts in Tokyo under the auspices of Yamaha International. Mr. Livingston has led the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrellas Series, the American Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra, the USC Thornton Chamber and Symphony Orchestras in Los Angeles, the USC Thornton Contemporary Music Ensemble in Berlin.

Mr. Livingston frequently appears with professional, festival, collegiate, and all-state wind ensembles, bands, and orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. From 1983 to 2002, he served as a conductor in the University of Michigan All-State Program at Interlochen, and was the Conductor of the Festival Orchestra at Idyllwild Arts from 1989 through 2019. Mr. Livingston served as Vice President and Music Director of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he was also Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and, subsequently, became Dean of the Shepherd School of Music and Elma Schneider Professor at Rice University in Houston. From 1986 until 2002, Mr. Livingston was Dean of the USC Flora L. Thornton School of Music.

Golden Moments with the Honor Orchestra of America

by Larry J. Livingston Sometimes in this adventure called life, one has a golden moment when time falls away and everything seems right in the world. I am blessed to...

One-on-One with Larry Livingston

Dean Westman interviews Larry Livingston on his storied connection to music, his roots in Michigan, and his thoughts on the current state of music education.