About the NCCP Players
Ronnie Bauch
Violin — Artistic Advisor
Vincent J. Vito, Jr. Memorial Chair
A founding member of the North Country Chamber Players, Ronnie Bauch served as its Artistic Director from 1984 to 2003. Also a long time member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Ronnie served as Orpheus Artistic Director from 1996 and was appointed Managing Director of the organization in September 2002.
As a violinist, he has toured extensively throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia with Orpheus and many other ensembles. As a soloist, he has also appeared with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Long Island Philharmonic, the American Composer’s Orchestra, the New Orchestra of Westchester and the Orchestra da Camera. As a chamber musician, Bauch has appeared at music festivals throughout the US including Aspen, Cabrillo, Bard and NH Music Festivals. He has participated in numerous radio and TV broadcasts around the world and has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Nonesuch and Decca, among others.
From 1995-98, Bauch served as chamber music advisor to Carnegie Hall’s Link-Up Educational Program. During that period he created, performed and narrated presentations for nearly 50,000 New York City school children. In recent years, he also played a major role in the development of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s outreach program including the development of seminars, concerts and residencies for New York public schools and colleges and American, European and Asian universities, conservatories and corporations.
In May 2000, Slate magazine featured the multi-faceted Bauch in a weeklong series of articles chronicling the life of a touring orchestra. Bauch attended Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay.