Jack Moore, Music Director
Maestro Moore has been Music Director of the Ambler Symphony Orchestra since 1995, Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia since 1997, and Music Director of the Olney Symphony Orchestra in Philadelphia from 2002 until 2016. He maintains a very active schedule with these organizations, and through guest appearances with orchestras throughout the tri-state area, and in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria. Mr. Moore was the Program Director and a classical music host at WRTI-FM, the Temple Public Radio Network in Philadelphia for many years.
THOMAS RIGNEY, ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Thomas Rigney is a lifelong resident of Abington Township. His musical studies began at age 10 with double bass lessons during his formative years in the Abington School District, where he also studied bass clarinet and trombone. He continued his music studies at Penn State University, earning a BA in music performance and history, followed by both an MM degree in orchestral conducting and postgraduate study in musicology at the University of Houston. He earned the first CLASS award given by the university to an outstanding teaching assistant in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Tom has performed with several Philadelphia area orchestras and has been an active teacher of cello and bass with several local music schools while serving as Instrumental Music Director at Bishop McDevitt HS in Wyncote.
Tom has guest conducted with the Warminster Symphony, BuxMont Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia and the Penn State Chamber Orchestra. He has previously served as assistant conductor with the BuxMont Chamber Orchestra and the Independence Sinfonia. In his current role as assistant conductor of the Old York Road Symphony, Tom has performed at a number of subscription and pops concerts and has directed the orchestra at the Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in a performance of Handel’s Messiah and at Upper Moreland HS as part of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Willow Grove. In addition to his academic conducting studies, he has studied musicology with Howard Pollack and Paul Bertagnolli, orchestration with Robert Nelson and musical theater history with Stuart Ostrow. He has also participated in conducting master classes in Houston, Illinois and at the International Conductors Guild Annual Conference in Philadelphia.
