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Rachael Worby was born on 1950 in Nyack, New York, U.S., is an American conductor. Discover Rachael Worby's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Rachael Worby Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Rachael Worby's Husband?
Her husband is Gaston Caperton (m. 1990–1998)
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Rachael Worby Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Rachael Worby worth at the age of 74 years old? Rachael Worby’s income source is mostly from being a successful Conductor. She is from United States. We have estimated Rachael Worby's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Rachael Worby is an American conductor who currently serves as the Artistic Director, Conductor and Founder of MUSE/IQUE.
Worby grew up in Nyack, New York with her parents Diana Worby, an English professor Empire State College, and Louis Worby, owner of a hardware manufacturing firm.
She began to learn to play the piano at five years old.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree in piano performance from the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam and began graduate work in musicology, at Indiana University and Brandeis University.
Spurred to further her training as a conductor, Worby directly appealed to Jacques-Louis Monod.
Though he insisted that there would never be a woman on an orchestra podium, Monod provided weekly private lessons to Worby from 1976 to 1981.
When she completed this training, she turned to Max Rudolf and Otto Werner-Mueller for additional study.
After working as a Conducting Assistant for the Spokane Symphony for two years, she became the Assistant Conductor for Youth Concerts at the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1984 to 1987 and excitedly accepted her childhood idol's former position, Music Director of Carnegie Hall's Young People's Concerts, which she led for twelve years
In 1986, she applied for the position of Music Director and Conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra.
While continuing to serve full-time at both the Wheeling Symphony and Carnegie Hall, Worby took on several additional projects as First Lady of West Virginia.
She created and hosted the nationally acclaimed Arts and Letters Series, an admission-free, live series, broadcast on public television which presented Carl Sagan, Tom Wicker, Jesse Jackson, Bob Woodward, Taylor Branch, Harry Belafonte, The American Boy Choir and dozens of other notable individuals.
She also led the statewide campaign, "Thanks A Million", to raise one million dollars to eradicate illiteracy and created The Governor's School for the Arts in perpetuity.
In 1990, she was nominated for an ACE Award for two young peoples' orchestra programs she created, narrated and conducted for the Disney Channel.
She has also picked up awards, including the Spirit of Achievement from Albert Einstein College, the Women of Excellence award from the YWCA, the degree Doctor of Humanities honoris causa from Marshall University, the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa and the Presidential Medal of Honor for her consummate lifetime achievements both from Claremont University.
Worby's television credits include:
Worby returned to California and worked as music director of the Pasadena POPS from 2000 to 2010, where she continued her work as a dedicated orchestra builder.
Her leadership increased the number of annual concerts and audience attendance while simultaneously securing ongoing funding to institute free-to-the-public concerts and expand outreach programs to underserved communities.
She enjoys a musical relationship and personal friendship with American soprano Jessye Norman.
They appear together at music festivals and concert halls throughout the world.
At Jessye Norman's request, Worby conducted the China Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in 2006 and served on the Honorary Committee of Carnegie Hall's HONOR!
Festival in 2009 as Artistic Advisor and guest panelist.
In 2011, Rachael Worby and a group of community leaders founded MUSE/IQUE, a counter-conventional orchestra in Pasadena.
Rachael Worby received a presidential appointment to the National Council of the Arts, on which she served for four years.