Charles Ansbacher holds titled positions with orchestras in Boston, Moscow, Sarajevo, and Bishkek.  His primary relationship is with The Boston Landmarks Orchestra, which he created in 2000 as a gift to his home community. Among recently highly acclaimed performances, he conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the same work he performed in Belgrade with American and Russian soloists, as the first American to appear on stage after the Kosovo-related NATO bombing of Serbia.

In the mid-nineties, while residing four years in Vienna, Ansbacher led multiple performances of important Austrian ensembles, including the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Innsbruck Philharmonic and the Vienna Chamber Opera.  He has conducted major orchestras in Canada, Israel, South Africa, Italy, Ecuador, Russia, South Korea, and of course the US.  However, his main thrust has been nations in political transition, such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. He has organized cross-cultural exchanges, such as bringing the Sarajevo Philharmonic to Italy or Austria; leading members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in their famed Symphony Hall featuring Croatian pianist, Ivo Pogorelich to celebrate the opening of the Croatian consulate; conducting the world premiere of the Mandela Portrait in Johannesburg, South Africa, then bringing the piece to the United States in 2004; and conducting the Jerusalem Symphony with a Palestinian soloist, Saleem Abboud-Ashkar in December 2005.

Building upon multiple concerts with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in that city's Tchaikovsky Hall, as well as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Ansbacher has conducted the MSO on four CD’s. The Landmarks Orchestra annually incubates a new work for children, and two of the MSO cds are Make Way for Ducklings, and The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.  For adults, Ansbacher has led the MSO recording Beethoven Fourths: his Symphony and Piano Concerto, as well as Landmark Overtures.

As a young man, Charles Ansbacher devoted almost twenty years to building the Colorado Springs Symphony, which named him Conductor Laureate as he left.  He was known throughout the Rocky Mountain region not only for their full regular season but also the music he brought to hundreds of thousands of diverse families through often-televised innovative outdoor concerts and the Christmas Pops on Ice, featuring Olympic skating stars.

Beyond music, Charles Ansbacher applied art to public policy making when, as a White House Fellow, he was co-chair of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Task Force on the Use of Design, Art, and Architecture in Transportation. His interest in design and architecture led to his appointment by Mayor Pena to the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Design of the new Denver International Airport. And he stayed in the policy realm as Chair of the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by Governor Romer.  When he moved to Boston in 1997, he accepted an invitation by Mayor Menino to serve as the first executive director for the Boston 2000 Committee, while also becoming a visiting scholar at the Harvard Music Department. As he has throughout his career, Ansbacher serves on numerous community-focused non-profit boards. He and Ambassador Swanee Hunt have three children.