Richard Hynson was appointed Music Director of the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra in March 2006. Since, 1988, Hynson has served as Music Director of the Bel Canto Chorus and Orchestra. Also in demand as a guest conductor, Hynson’s past engagements include performances with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Skylight Opera Theatre, and the Racine, Sheboygan, and Waukesha Symphony Orchestras. Hynson has conducted at Carnegie Hall in New York City, in which he led a large, national festival chorus and orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem.

Hynson and members of Bel Canto have performed internationally at the acclaimed Spoleto Music Festival in Italy, at the Festivals of Troyes and Rheims in France, at the Llangollen Festival in Wales, and at the Elora and Huntsville Festivals in Canada. This past summer, Hynson and members of Bel Canto International, including singers from six states, performed to critical acclaim in Ireland. Hynson and the Bel Canto Choral Artists have performed with Luciano Pavarotti at the United Center in Chicago and with Sarah Brightman in Milwaukee.

Hynson is in much demand locally and nationally as a clinician. He has led multiple choir clinics in Boston, Massachusetts; Lexington, Kentucky; and Greater Milwaukee. Popular as a clinician for children’s choirs and school programs, Hynson has conducted events such as a Children's Choral Festival in Illinois, and the annual District Choral Festival in Kenosha, Wisconsin. At Washington, D.C.’s prestigious St. Albans School, Hynson led master classes and conducted a performance of Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore. He has conducted master classes on his choral cycle, Training Wheels, in the Cedarburg School District, and in February 2006, conducted a festival performance of the same work by students in the Association of Wisconsin Area Kodaly Educators.

In addition to his work as a conductor and educator, Hynson is a composer. He has written a substantial body of published choral, vocal, and ensemble works, many of which he has recorded. The U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants have frequently performed Hynson’s In the Midst of Life, composed in response to the events of Sept. 11. Most notably, they presented it in New York City’s Avery Fisher Hall for the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association. In January 2005, his choral work, Training Wheels, was performed at the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association’s State Convention.