Mr. Rico McNeela is Director of Orchestral Studies and the conductor of the University of Toledo Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his conducting duties, he is the violinist in the Toledo Trio and teaches studio violin and viola. He came to the University of Toledo in the fall of 2002 from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville where he taught for 18 years.
He studied at the Cleveland Institute with David Cerone and Linda Sharon, and also at the University of Michigan with Paul Makanowitzky and Eugene Bossart.
He has performed extensively throughout the United States as conductor, and in solo and chamber music. He has performed in The Hot Springs Music Festival, the Arkansas Music festival, the Allegheny Music Festival. He has been concertmaster of The North Arkansas Symphony, The Fort Smith Symphony, the Kalamazoo Symphony, and the Canary International Opera Festival.
In addition to the University of Arkansas, Mr. McNeela has also taught at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington IL, and at Allegheny College, in Meadville PA.
