Jeffrey Rink, Concert Opera Boston's Music Director, is one of Boston's most visible and talented musicians. He has received much critical success as an opera conductor. “The afternoon’s mastermind was, of course, Music Director Jeffrey Rink, an opera conductor to be reckoned with” (T.J. Medrek, Boston Herald, June 2001). Of La Traviata, “It was the first of many such heartbreaking insights, and it was the soul of Rink’s achievements. He gave us Verdi” (Lloyd Schwartz, Boston Phoenix, June 2003).” Of the Boston premiere of Attila, “The orchestra, full of veterans of Boston's opera wars, played a fiery performance for Rink, who commands all the skills of operatic conducting. Like a conqueror he knows where he wants to go and how to inspire his troops to get there” (Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe, June 2006).

Jeffrey Rink was honored in 2005 by the New England Opera Club with the Jacopo Peri Award. The New England Opera Club’s comment for his significant contributions to the local opera scene, "This symphonic conductor is acclaimed for his innovative productions of concert operas." (New England Opera Club)

Maestro Rink has conducted critically acclaimed concert opera performances with Chorus pro Musica including the Boston premiere of Attila, Samson et Dalila, Mefistofele, La Traviata, Nabucco, Macbeth, Otello, Turandot, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Faust and Carmen. With the Newton Symphony Orchestra, he has conducted highly successful concert opera performances of Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, and The Barber of Seville. In 2005 he led a critically acclaimed performance of La Bohème with the Maryland Opera Institute, and in 2001, he conducted highly successful performances of The Magic Flute in the New National Theatre, Tokyo.

For the 2007-08 season, Maestro Rink has been selected to be the conductor of the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and the Mattie Kelly Distinguished Endowed Teaching Chair in Music and Conducting at Okaloosa-Walton College. He is the Artistic Director of Chorus pro Musica and the Newton Symphony Orchestra, Director of Orchestral Activities at the Longy School of Music, where he conducts the Longy Chamber Orchestra and is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts – Boston. He was Conductor of the New England Philharmonic for eight years in which he won four ASCAP awards for adventuresome programming and commitment to new music.

With Chorus pro Musica Mr. Rink has conducted the North American premieres of two major works of Berlioz with period instruments: L’Enfance du Christ and Roméo et Juliette. He has brought the Newton Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Pro Musica to Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall to perform the Chinese work, The Yellow River Cantata.

Mr. Rink has received high praise from The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, El Economista in Mexico City, the Manila Standard, Switzerland’s La Liberté and Poland’s Glos Wybzreza and Gazeta Morska.

Maestro Rink has traveled worldwide in a guest conductor capacity: the Baltic State Philharmonic in Gdansk, Poland, (the only American asked to participate in their millennium celebration), the Orquesta Sinfónica de Monterrey in Mexico, and L'Orchestre de Sherbrooke of Quebec, Canada.  Other triumphant appearances include concerts with Metropolitan Opera soprano Barbara Kilduff in Asia, conducting L'Orchestre de Jeunes de Fribourg in Switzerland, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Telemann Chamber Orchestra of Osaka, and the Filarmónica de Querétero in Mexico.

Since the 2003-2004 season Mr. Rink served on many occasions as a cover conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra assisting such conductors as James Levine, James Conlon, Hans Graf, Robert Spano, Gennady Roszhdestvensky and Rafel Frühbeck de Burgos and Sir Colin Davis.