Our Conductors
Dr. Robert Sage, CSO and CYSO Music Director
Robert Sage has been Music Director of the Claremont Symphony Orchestra since 2011. He presently also conducts the Claremont Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Buddha's Light Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has conducted a number of other orchestras in both symphonic and operatic repertoire. His Doctorate in Piano Performance was taken at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Ruth Charloff, CSO Associate Conductor
Ruth Charloff has been CSO Associate Conductor since 2012. She directs the UCR Orchestra, Chamber Singers, and Chorale at the University of California, Riverside. Her D.M.A. in Orchestral Conducting is from Northwestern University, and her M.A. is from the University of California, Berkeley. At UC Riverside she has taught conducting, instrumentation, 20th-century music history, and Introduction to Western Music.
