Richard Rintoul
Lecturer
Orchestral Conducting
Music Building #1222
Choral, Orchestral & Conducting Program
Richard Rintoul (DMA in Conducting, UCLA; MM in Orchestral Conducting, USC; BFA in Viola Performance, Cal Arts) has spent nine years as the Director of Orchestral Activities and Director of the String Department at California State University, Long Beach. He currently teaches conducting and string chamber music, including the University String Quartet. Additionally he is in his twentieth season as the Founder / Conductor of the Orchestra da Camera at the Colburn School of the Performing Arts (Los Angeles). Mr. Rintoul founded and for nine seasons conducted the Colburn Chamber Orchestra with which he toured England & California; did national radio & television broadcasts (winning an Emmy in 1994) and recorded a well-reviewed CD, currently in international release. He built the Pasadena Young Musician's Orchestra and helped that process with the Glendale Youth Orchestra and Crossroads School Music Department in Santa Monica.
As a choir director, Mr. Rintoul served several southland churches for nineteen years. He was Conductor of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Youth Symphony (Idyllwild, California) for eighteen seasons, while, for the past two summers, he has conducted the Interlochen Philharmonic at Interlochen Arts Center in Michigan.
His guest conducting includes work with a variety of student Honor Orchestras and High School Ensembles throughout California, Arizona and Utah. Professionally, Mr. Rintoul has conducted the San Diego Symphony, episodes of Star Trek "Enterprise", the Downey Symphony, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Inland Empire Orchestra, the Roundtop Festival Orchestra (Texas) and many others.
He has conducted productions of "the Medium", "The Marriage of Figaro" and two Opera Galas at CSULB. Additional operatic conducting credits are for "The Mikado", "HMS Pinafore" and "Trial By Jury" with Opera a la Carte, the world premiere and subsequent performances of "Monticello" for KCRW and a stint as chorus master for the Long Beach Opera. Mr. Rintoul has also been filmed conducting much of the orchestral repertoire for IV ASI Systems' DVD training materials.
Having played viola on hundreds of recordings, he remains active professionally in the major motion picture and television recording studios.
