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 The Connecticut River Valley Orchestra, a professional symphony under the baton of noted conductor Max Culpepper and based at the Claremont Opera House, presents a wide range of classical music. With accomplished musicians selected by audition from New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, the Orchestra will perform five concerts in the Opera House’s 2009-2010 Season. With a philosophy of entertaining, educating and reaching out to new audiences, CRVO features engaging thematic and seasonal programming, narration, world-renowned soloists, a Young People’s Concert, and creative staging to enhance the concert experience.

After 25 years as conductor of the Dartmouth Wind Symphony, as well as former Coordinator of Music Ensembles at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Max Culpepper retired in 2009 from Dartmouth College. With a BS in Music Education and MA in Conducting from The College of New Jersey, Max has conducted, taught, performed  (trombone and euphonium) and administrated music on the faculties of University of Massachusetts, Northern Illinois University, The College of New Jersey, Rowan University, New England Conservatory and Plymouth State University. He has also conducted the Southern Vermont Art Center Chamber Orchestra, the North Country Community Theater Orchestra at the Lebanon (NH) Opera House and the Lakes Region Youth Orchestra at Vermont’s Castleton State College.  He has been Conductor-in-Residence for the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra resident members at the Harmony Ridge Brass Center’s Summer Festival at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont. In 1991 he was awarded the Otto Helbig Conducting Award for Lifetime Achievement from the College of New Jersey, and in 2009 was the recipient of the New England College Band Association Lee Chrisman Award for Lifetime Achievement.