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Ray Fowler
MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR |
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Maestro Ray Fowler is in his 17th season as Music Director of The Ohio
Valley Symphony. His expertise and energy, so visible during
performances, have been key ingredients in the establishment and
perpetuation of the OVS in the tri-county region. Fowler graduated
from the Juilliard School in New York City. While residing in the
metropolitan area, he conducted the much-acclaimed Oratorio
Singers and Orchestra, established the Opera Theatre Middlesex
County New Jersey productions in and was Music Director of the Kean
Chamber Orchestra. In addition to his position at Ohio University, he
has been on the conducting staffs of Peabody Conservatory, Shenandoah
Conservatory and Columbia University. In 1984--85, he was assistant
conductor of the Akron Symphony. In 1987 Maestro Fowler conducted
the North American premiere of Entgegen by Anders Nordentoft, aired
on Danish television in Copenhagen.
.jpg) In 1989 he was resident conductor at the
Sewanee Summer Music Center in Tennessee.
Fowler is currently in his fifth season as
Artistic Director of the Bay View Music
Festival in northern Michigan. As an opera
conductor, Fowler toured with Eastern Opera
Theatre of New and conducted performances
of La Boheme and Don Pasquale with the Erie
Philharmonic, Opera Company and conducted
performances of the Barber of Bagdad. He also
conducted the New York City Premiere of
Ned Rorem’s Three Sisters. In 1983 he served as guest conductor for
the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Knoxville Opera Company’s
production of Hansel and Gretel.
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Lora Lynn
Snow
ARIEL
FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR AND OVS MANAGER |
In February 1987, Lora Lynn Snow conceived of forming a professional
orchestra in Gallia Countyand basing its performances in the Ariel
Theatre. She spearheaded the restoration of the historic opera house,
which had been abandoned, and was the moving force behind the
creation of The OhioValley Symphony. She later expanded her efforts
to helping establish the After School String Project,a string instruction
program, the Ohio Valley Youth Orchestra, the Ariel Dancers, and the
Ariel Players, a community theatre troupe, all of whom call the historic
Morris & Dorothy Haskins ArielTheatre, in the Ariel-Ann Carson Dater
Performing Arts Centre, home.
Lora is principal oboist for The Ohio Valley Symphony, a post she also
holds with the Huntington(W.Va.) Symphony. She is also a member of
the West Virginia Symphony in Charleston and the River Cities
Symphony Orchestra in Parkersburg and she performs with the
Kingsbury Woodwind Quintet at Marshall University. Lora earned her
Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Ohio State University.
Before moving to Gallia County in 1980, she taught woodwinds and was
assistant Director of the Concert Band at the University of Arkansas in
Little Rock, and she performed with the Arkansas Symphony and at
several Little Rock recording studios. She was a founding member of
the Little Rock Chamber Orchestra. In Gallia County, she taught music
in the Gallia County Local Schools and at the University of Rio Grande.
She is an active recitalist, clinician and consultant. She has been
published in this country and abroad.
In 2005, Snow was awarded the "Arts and Outstanding Leadership
Heritage Award" from the Ohio's Hill Country Heritage Area
Association for her twenty years of volunteer work for the Ariel.
Ohio's Hill Country Heritage
