Orchestra Conductor

Liberty Middle School

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Biography

David Rimelis’ music has been performed by orchestras internationally, including the Boston Pops, National Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Western Australia Symphony, Minnesota Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, and the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

      Some of the organizations he has been featured artist with are the Colorado Symphony, Eugene Oregon Symphony, Waco Texas Symphony, Concordia Orchestra, Plainfield New Jersey Symphony, The Cascade Festival of Music Orchestra, the New Sussex Symphony, the New Jersey Pops, the Oregon Festival of American Music Orchestra, and the Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra.

       Rimelis is artist-in-residence for the New Jersey State Council on The Arts and teaching artist for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He is also Director of Music Education for the AIDS Resource Foundation for Children in Newark, New Jersey. From 1990 - 2002  he served as composer-in-residence for the Concordia Orchestra in New York City. 

       His music is featured in the film about violinist  Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg “Speaking  in Strings”, PBS and New Jersey Network documentaries “Summer Camp”, “It’s Red It’s Edible It Bounces”, the Mo Willems cartoon “The Man Who Yelled,” and the feature film “She Devil.”  .

     Some of his National Television appearances as featured musician include “Emeril Live”  (improvising original music as “Dr. Strings), CBS’s “The Guiding Light” (fiddler and country band leader), and NBC’s “Four Stories” (volunteer music teacher to HIV affected children), The View and The Tony Danza Show. 

       As a guitarist and violinist, Rimelis has toured the United States, South America, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the Middle East.

       His unique charanga violin style has been featured with many prominent Latin ensembles, including Jose Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, Roberto Torres, Orchestra Broadway, and Africando.

       Rimelis is the founder and leader of the band “Life,” which performs original world jazz.  The son of country western singer “Idaho Ed,”  Rimelis was raised on American folk and popular music. He has won prizes in a number of regional fiddle contests.