Frank Bianchi

Assistant Director of Choruses
The Cleveland Orchestra

Director
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus

Frank Bianchi was appointed Assistant Director of Choruses in 2009. He began his tenure as Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus for the 2006-07 season after serving for one year as assistant director of the Youth Chorus.

In addition to his duties at Severance Hall, Mr. Bianchi is an adjunct professor of music at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, the director of the Baldwin-Wallace Men’s Chorus, and the choral director at Holy Martyrs Catholic Church in Medina. Mr. Bianchi retired from the Medina City Schools after a successful 30-year teaching career. Choral groups under his direction have sung at district, regional, state, and national conventions of the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA), Music Educators National Conferance (MENC), and the Association of Choral Directors of America (ACDA).

Mr. Bianchi is active as a choral clinician, choral conductor, and adjudicator of both concert and show choirs. He has conducted well over 100 honors, district, regional, and all-state choirs throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Bianchi is also a leader in Ohio music organizations and continues his longstanding involvement with the Adjudications Board for the Ohio Music Education Association and the Ohio Choral Directors Association.

Mr. Bianchi is a past recipient of the Outstanding Music Educator of the Year Award from the Ohio Music Education Association, the Distinguished Service Award from Medina City Schools, and the Teacher of the Year award from Brunswick High School. He received his bachelor of arts degree in music education from Cleveland State University and his master of music degree in choral conducting from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Updated:  October 2009