Co-founder and Associate Conductor/Director of the New Philharmonic of New Jersey, also serves as Music Director of the New Sussex Symphony and the Essex County Summer Players. Other engagements as Guest Conductor have led her to conduct performances with the Huntington Symphony (West Virginia), the Springfield (Illinois) Symphony, the Vermont Symphony, the Bronx Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Heights Orchestra, the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble and the Millennium Chamber Symphony in New York.
Maestra Pinoci has toured throughout France, Italy, Austria, and her native United States, to include debuts at the Community Theater in Morristown, New Jersey, the Votive Kirche in Vienna, Europahaus in Mayerhofen, the Parco Magnolia in Albano Terme, the Eglise Beaumes De Venise and the Jardins et Palais du Luxembourg in Paris.
An advocate for the promotion of contemporary music, Karen Pinoci has performed numerous premieres by prominent composers such as Katherine Hoover, Arnold Black, John Salacan, David Williams, David Baker, Keith Powell, David Rimelis, Daniel Dorff and a world premiere by Darryl Kubian.
As Program Coordinator of the New Philharmonic of New Jersey’s education program “Sounds Like Fun!”, she has led countless interactive discussions and demonstrations with students of all ages, and continually strives to integrate fresh ideas and concepts into the development of several other innovative programs. Introducing classical music to new listeners is a cause to which Maestra Pinoci devotes tremendous attention, as she believes it is a crucial step towards securing a vibrant future for the arts.
Ms. Pinoci has studied under and taken master classes with a number of eminent
conductors, including Gustav Meier, Maurice Abravanel, Harold Farberman, Georg
Mester, David Zinman, Leon Fleischer, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin and
Lorin Maazel. She has appeared at such prestigious festival programs as the
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Seminar, and the American Symphony Orchestra
League/s Conducting Master Classes. The recipient of numerous awards and
accolades, Maestra Pinoci has been nominated “Woman of the Year” by the MacDowell Club
of Mountain Lakes, and “Musician of the Year” by the New Jersey State Conference
of Musicians.
Karen Pinoci
earned her Doctorate in Conducting from the American
Conservatory of Music in Chicago.