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Our Guests Gail Thompson moved to Dubai in July to head the Dubai Opera House and Hotel Project. However I have recently transitioned to head up all Downtown development projects, including in Dubai, Rabat and Tunis. Company closed in February 2009 as a result of the economic downturn in Dubai. SPOTLIGHT Elaine Rinaldi Artistic Director, Orchestra Miami In addition to her work with Orchestra Miami, Rinaldi is much in demand as an opera conductor. For four consecutive seasons, she was the principal guest conductor at the Dicapo Opera Theater in Manhattan. She has also led several tours for the National Lyric Opera, twice appeared as a guest conductor with the Albany Symphony for the Shaker Mountain Performing Arts Festival, and conducted performances of La Traviata for Island Opera Theater in Key West, FL. Rinaldi has also held many positions as an Assistant and/or Cover Conductor in many of this country’s leading regional opera theaters. From 1997-2000, she held the positions of Resident Associate Conductor and Chorus Master at the Florida Grand Opera in Miami. Critics called her work with the chorus “exquisite.” ELIZABETH HARRY ELIZABETH HARRY is a professor of special education at the University of Miami, where her research and teaching focuses on the impact of special education on families of diverse cultural backgrounds. A native of Jamaica, she founded the Immortelle Children’s Center in Port of Spain, Trinidad, when she realized the medical system wasn’t equipped to take care of disabled children. Harry is the author of a memoir, Melanie: Bird with a Broken Wing, and a collection of poems, In Sunshine and in Shadow.