Alan Reinecke is in his second season conducting the Pasadena Community Orchestra. Alan is a busy freelance musician, having been the Timpanist of the Rio Hondo Symphony since 1983, and has performed extensively with the Riverside Philharmonic, St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra, The Burbank Philharmonic, besides his twenty-five years with the Pasadena Community Orchestra. Other prestigious groups include orchestras in Santa Barbara, The Pacific Symphony, The Long Beach Symphony, The Pasadena Symphony, The Los Angeles Music Center Opera, The Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has played with several notable conductors, including Grant Gershon, William Eddins, Patrick Flynn, David Alan Miller, John Nelson, Yuri Temirkanov, Jorge Mester, John Williams, and Simon Rattle. Alan was educated at the University of Southern California, where he studied conducting with Daniel Lewis and Hans Beer, and percussion with Kenneth Watson and Dale Anderson. Summer festivals include The Music Academy of the West, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. Other teachers include Mitchell Peters and Raynor Carroll. He makes his home in Whittier.