áQueler, Eve1936╨conductorBorn in New York City on January 1, 1936, Eve Rabin early displayed remarkable musical ability. She began formal piano lessons at five, and only financial problems prevented her from accepting a full scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia when she was twelve. She graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1954 and then took courses at City College of New York, the Mannes College of Music, and Hebrew Union School of Education and Sacred Music until her marriage in December 1956 to Stanley N. Queler, a law student. For several years she worked as a church and temple organist, a rehearsal pianist, an opera coach, and in other capacities while her husband completed law school. She then returned to Mannes College, where she began the study of conducting under Carl Bamberger. She continued under Joseph Rosenstock of the Metropolitan Opera, whose original strong misgivings about her prospects in the virtually all-male field of conducting were allayed it least in part by her manifest talent. Her work with the New York City Opera, with which she was associated from 1958 as rehearsal and audition pianist and later as performing pianist and finally assistant conductor, gave her practical experience, albeit slowly. An outdoor performance in Fairlawn, New Jersey, of a truncated version of Cavalleria Rusticana in 1966 was her first public appearance as a conductor. In order to provide herself with opportunities to conduct more than rehearsals Queler organized in 1967 the Opera Orchestra of New York, which also provided experience to instrumentalists and young singers. As the group developed it began attracting a public and critical following. In December 1969 the Opera Orchestra presented a concert performance of Tosca at Alice Tully Hall, New York City, and a year later they did Fedora, a seldom heard opera of the verismo school. Performances of L╒Incoronazione de Poppea and Belfagor in 1971, William Tell and L╒Africana in 1972, and other works established the orchestra and Eve Queler as fixtures of the New York musical scene, and they were gradually able to call on the services of major guest artists from the Metropolitan Opera. Queler also served as associate conductor of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in Indiana in 1970╨1971, and as conductor of the Lake George Opera Festival, New York, in 1971╨1972, of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, New York City, in 1972, of the New Philharmonia, London, in 1973, and of the San Antonio and Montreal symphonies in 1975, among others. She was also a frequent guest conductor with such groups as the Paris Radio, the Boston, and the Puerto Rico symphony orchestras. εstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ !I S !I g !I ó 5¬ ú !I !I !I L !I R !I æ !I ¬ !I » !I ╖ !I ┴ !I ═ !I ╥ !I ▄ !I !I ▐ !I ╡ 5¬ ╢ !I link ` HYPR
