Conductor Elaine Rinaldi is fast making her mark among the ranks of rising young American conductors. Critics have called her performances "brilliant" and her interpretative work "impeccable."
As Founder and Music Director of Orchestra Miami, Miami’s only fully professional orchestra, Rinaldi has brought a new level of professionalism and quality to the local arts scene. Of her work with Orchestra Miami, Daniel Fernandez of El Nuevo Herald writes;
though small in size, is clearly of a high caliber."
In addition to her work with Orchestra Miami, Rinaldi is much in demand as an opera conductor. For four consecutive seasons, she was the principal guest conductor at the Dicapo Opera Theater in Manhattan. She has also led several tours for the National Lyric Opera, twice appeared as a guest conductor with the Albany Symphony for the Shaker Mountain Performing Arts Festival, and conducted performances of La Traviata for Island Opera Theater in Key West, FL. Rinaldi has also held many positions as an Assistant and/or Cover Conductor in many of this country’s leading regional opera theaters. From 1997-2000, she held the positions of Resident Associate Conductor and Chorus Master at the Florida Grand Opera in Miami. Critics called her work with the chorus “exquisite.”