Eve Queler (born January 11, 1931) is an American

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and the '' emerita'' Artistic Director of the Opera Orchestra of New York (OONY). She founded the OONY in 1971, after having worked on the staff of the

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and the

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. She is notable for her advocacy for, and conducting of, lesser known and less-frequently performed operas, such as ''

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'' and '' Jenůfa''. Born Eve Rabin in New York City, Queler attended The High School of Music & Art, graduating in 1948. She then matriculated in the Mannes School of Music, where she studied piano and conducting. A Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund grant enabled her to pursue further studies in conducting with Joseph Rosenstock and accompaniment with

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. She also participated in

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es with Walter Susskind and Leonard Slatkin in St. Louis and Igor Markevich and Herbert Blomstedt in Europe. Although primarily dedicated to the OONY, she has appeared as a guest conductor with numerous opera companies and orchestras internationally, including the

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, the

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, the National Theatre in Prague, the Frankfurt Opera, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra among others. Eve Queler is the recipient of a 2010

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Opera Honors Award. In 2017, New Amsterdam Opera presented Mo. Queler with its first-ever Pathfinder Awar

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Personal life

Her husband was Stanley Queler, a lawyer, who died on January 30, 2013, at age 83.

References

Eve Rabin Queler
Women's History

External links

Opera Orchestra of New York
Eve Queler's official web site"An Interview with Eve Queler"
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Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature and Art
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