Conductors and Accompanists

More than a century of beautiful choral music is the proud patrimony of the Orpheus Club. Below are the names of the gifted artists, both Conductors/Directors and Pianists/Accompanists, who evoked the very best from the chorus, decade after decade:

Conductors/Directors

1909 - 1915     DeWitt Clinton, Jr.
1915 - 1922     Wilbur A. Luyster
1922 - 1930     Bruno Huhn
1930 - 1944     Frank Kasschau
1944 - 1962     Howard Kasschau
1962 - 1963     Richard Bloch
1963 - 1977     Gerald Weale
1977 - 1978     Bailey (Oats) Harvey
1978 - 1990     James Bender
​1990 -              John J. Palatucci

Pianists/Accompanists

1909                George Young
​1910 - 1922     Bevier Smith
1922 - 1937     Charles M. Hobbs
1937 - 1944     Howard Kasschau
1944 - 1950     Ralph Stoughton
1950 - 1951     Gates Wray
1951 - 1963     Harry Thurber
1963 - 2004     Richard Lane
​2004 -              Ron Levy