In the early eighties Rich returned to Miami to raise his family. Since that time he has been working in the South Florida area as a pianist and trombonist. He has performed with the Fort Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra, the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra, the Miami Ballet Orchestra, the Miami Opera Guild Orchestra, including performances with Luciano Pavarotti and Franco Corelli. In 1996, Maestro James Brooks-Bruzzesi conducted the Symphony of the Americas in a concert featuring several original orchestrations by Rich combining both jazz and classical elements. More arrangements were requested and featured in concerts in 1998 and 1999.
New works are in progress.
Mr. Convery has written four one-act operas, twenty cantatas, MASS for choir and orchestra, choral works, nine song cycles and over 150 songs for voice and piano. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Westminster Choir College and a doctorate from the Julliard School. He has composition studied with Ned Rorem, David Diamond and Vincent Persichetti and has been the recipient of numerous grants, awards and residencies too numerous to mention here. His entire works are catalogued at Lincoln Center's New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in Special Collections.