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Ronald Braunstein (born 1955) is an American conductor. He received his early training at The Juilliard School, Salzburg Mozarteum, Fontainebleau School, and Tanglewood Music Center. In 1979 he completed his studies at Juilliard and went to Berlin, where he won First Prize in the Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition. He spent the next four years working with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Braunstein served as Music Director of the Texas Chamber Orchestra in the early 1980s. [1] He then returned to New York where he served on the staff of The Juilliard School (1983-87), conducting orchestral concerts, opera productions [2], and musicals. He was Music Director of the Juilliard pre-college orchestra for 6 seasons, during which time he taught conducting to Alan Gilbert, the current Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. [3]

In 1999, Braunstein became Music Director of the Mannes Philharmonic at the Mannes School of Music, a training orchestra for 15-18 year-old students. He held this position until 2007, at which time he moved to Prague.

Following three years of independent study, Braunstein returned to the United States in 2010 and was hired as Music Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association. [4] He currently resides in South Burlington, Vermont.