Rei Hotoda, Chorus Director, All-State Choral Camp

Rei HOTODA is one of America's most versatile and dynamic concert artists. She is busy as a conductor, solo pianist, orchestral soloist and chamber musician. Ms. Hotoda has appeared as a pianist and conductor in Berlin, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, New Orleans, Palm Springs and other US cities. Her work as conductor with the innovative Chicago new music group Ensemble Noamnesia has included US and world premieres of works by composers including Salvatore Sciarrino, Luc Ferrari, Gene Coleman and others. She is also the principle conductor for Ensemble N_JP -- a group of traditional and experimental Japanese musicians. She conducted the New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria and recently in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. In workshops she conducted a number of prestigious American orchestras including the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Concordia Orchestra in New York City, the Seattle Youth Symphony and the members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. She received a scholarship/recognition award from the Women's Philharmonic of San Francisco and a grant from the Governors International Arts Exchange Program of the Illinois Arts Council for concerts and a workshop in Eastern Europe. Currently she is assisting conductor and teacher Gustav Meier at the Greater Bridgeport Symphony in Connecticut and is recording music by several contemporary Japanese composers. Her teachers include pianists John Perry, Barry Synder and Emilio del Rosario and conductors, Gustav Meier, Marin Alsop and Daniel Lewis.