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Dr. Richard Loheyde,
Youth Orchestra Conductor & SRS Assistant Conductor
Dr. Richard Loheyde presently serves as conductor of the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra, assistant conductor of the Santa Rosa Symphony, and is a member of the faculty at Sonoma State University.
Recent conducting positions include director of orchestral activities at the University of Evansville, assistant conductor of the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra, and director of orchestral activities at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Previously, Loheyde also served as music director of the Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra, music director of the University Orchestra at the University of Texas at Austin, conducting fellow at the Music School Festival Orchestra at the Chautauqua Institution, conductor of orchestras at the International Music Camp, and assistant conductor of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. His guest conducting experience includes engagements with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Austin Civic Orchestra and Opera, and the Iowa State University Symphony Orchestra. He made his conducting debut with the Santa Rosa Symphony in 2006.
Richard Loheyde began his music studies as a violinist, with early training in the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and at Tanglewood Music Center, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has been a violinist and violist with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. He has degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Texas at Austin.
