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Richard Scerbo
Assistant Director for Artistic Planning & Operations
Managing Director, National Orchestral Institute
B.A., M.M, University of Maryland, College Park
Richard Scerbo maintains an active schedule as a conductor, performer, teacher, and arts administrator. He studied bassoon with Daniel Matsukawa, Linda Harwell, and Sue Heineman (B.A., University of Maryland, 2002) before pursing conducting studies with James Ross (M.M., University of Maryland, 2004).
His primary work as an arts administrator has been with the National Orchestral Institute where he has worked in various roles since 2002 and was appointed Managing Director in 2006. In this capacity, he is honored to work annually with internationally renowned conductors and orchestral musicians, as well as some of the most talented music students in the nation.
As a conductor, he co-founded the Philharmonia Ensemble with violinist Dale Barltrop, and in 2004 founded the Inscape Chamber Orchestra, which the Washington Post has praised for its "guts and musical sensitivity." In 2003, he made his operatic debut conducting Dominick Argento's A Water Bird Talk with the Philharmonia Ensemble and Handel's Xerxes with the Maryland Opera Studio. That same year, Mr. Scerbo helped launch the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra (Maryland) when he was invited to conduct their inaugural concert, and returned the following year to conduct their season opening concert. He has been guided in his studies by Leonard Slatkin, Heinz Fricke, Gustav Meier, and Johannes Schlaefli at the Musikhochschule Zurich.
Mr. Scerbo teaches bassoon privately, as well as serving on the faculties of Montgomery College and the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland.
