Dr. Richard Yaklich, currently serves as Music Director and President of the Broward Pops Orchestra and Director of Orchestras at Michael Krop High School Magnet Star Academy. He served 22 years as a Professor of Music in the Miami, FL area, and is the former Conductor of the South Florida Youth Symphony and  the of the Jubilate Chamber Orchestra. He also served as the Associate Conductor of the Kingsport Symphony and Music Director of the Kingsport Youth Symphony. He has conducted orchestras throughout the United States and Eastern Europe including the Maikop Philharmonic and the Sochi Symphony Orchestra in Russia. Dr. Yaklich has conducted the Alhambra Orchestra of Miami, FL on several occasions. Dr. Yaklich is also a certified orchestra adjudicator for the Florida Orchestra Association and has adjudicated orchestra festivals throughout the state of Florida, including serving as the conductor for the Broward All County Silver Honors Orchestra, presenting Conducting Workshops for Miami-Dade County School Orchestra Directors, and as the Florida Orchestra Association District Chair for Miami-Dade County.

Additionally, he is a published author, having written three books, one on orchestra repertoire and programming titled “An Orchestra Conductor’s Guide to Repertoire and Programming,” and two on Eugene Ormandy: “The Orchestra Scores of Eugene Ormandy–Creating the Philadelphia Sound” and “Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1–The Eugene Ormandy Preforming Edition–an Annotated Reconstruction.” He is currently working on a biography about Eugene Ormandy.

He attended the Tanglewood Music Center where he studied conducting with such musical notables as Gustav Meier, Charles Dutoit, Leon Fleisher, Maurice Abravanel, and Seiji Ozawa. While studying at the Conductor’s Institute, he had master classes with Donald Portnoy, Samuel Jones, Larry Newland, and Paul Vermal. He also studied with David Effron and Yuri Bekker at the Miami Music Festival. In addition to his conducting activities, he is an active cellist and composer and has had works performed by the Colorado Symphony and in Romania.

He maintains an active conducting and teaching schedule in the South Florida area. More