Constantine kitsopoulos, conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos
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Constantine Kitsopoulos has made a name for himself as a conductor whose musical experiences comfortably span the worlds of opera and symphony, where he conducts in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Royal Albert Hall, and musical theater, where he can be found leading orchestras on Broadway. The 2016-17 season will mark his 7th as Music Director of the Festival of the Arts BOCA, an extraordinary multi-day cultural arts event for South Florida. He was Artistic Director of the OK Mozart Festival, Oklahoma's premier music festival, from 2013-15. He also recently completed an eight-year tenure as Music Director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra. During the 2016-17 season, Kitsopoulos includes return engagements with the New Jersey Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, Symphony Silicon Valley, and the Calgary Philharmonic. He will make debuts with the Pacific Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony. He will return to Indiana Opera Theatre to lead their production of The Music Man and returns to New York University to conduct three different programs with their orchestras. In addition to his work as a conductor, Kitsopoulos will make his debut as a composer at Michigan State University with a workshop of a new music theatre piece entitled Temple. Highlights of recent seasons include appearances with the New York Philharmonic; the Baltimore, Colorado, Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Toledo, San Antonio and San Francisco symphony orchestras; and the Calgary Philharmonic, National Arts Centre Orchestra and the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Summer concerts have included Saratoga Performing Arts Center with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ravinia Festival, Blossom Festival with the Blossom Festival Orchestra, Sun Valley Festival, Atlanta Symphony and Dallas Symphony. International appearances have seen him conduct China’s Macao Orchestra with Cuban band Tiempo Libre, Tokyo Philharmonic and the Russian National Orchestra. Above and beyond his symphonic work, Constantine Kitsopoulos maintains a busy opera schedule. In recent seasons, he has led annual productions at the Indiana University Opera Theater of Menotti’s Last Savage (2014/2015), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific (2014/2015), Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore (2013/14), Verdi’s Falstaff (2012/13), Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge (2011/2012), Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (2010/11), and Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella. Also much in demand as a theater conductor, both on Broadway and nationwide, Kitsopoulos has been Music Director and Conductor of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella on Broadway and of the Gershwin’s’ Porgy and Bess, the Tony-Award winning Broadway musical revival featuring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis which ran until September 2012. Prior to that, he was Conductor and Musical Director of the Tony-nominated musical A Catered Affair; the Tony-nominated musical Coram Boy; and the American Conservatory Theatre’s production of Kurt Weill’s Happy End, for which he recorded the cast album at Skywalker Ranch. Other musical theater highlights include serving as Music Director and Principal Conductor of Baz Luhrmann’s highly acclaimed production of Puccini’s La Bohème. Mr. Kitsopoulos studied conducting with Gustav Meier; Sergiu Comissiona; Semyon Bychkov; and his principal teacher, Vincent La Selva. Directory: media media -> Applications to Drill media -> Unicef voices of Youth Chat Theme: Children and aids nigeria and Zimbabwe 13 October 2006 Background media -> Tsunami Terror Alert: Voices of Youth media -> Biblical Eschatology Presentation by: D. Paul Beck May 4, 2016 Ground Rules media -> Guide to completing the collection using the Omnibus system media -> The milk carton kids media -> Events Date and Location media -> The Gilded Age: The First Generation of Historians by H. Wayne Morgan University of Oklahoma, April 18, 1997 media -> Analysis of Law in the United Kingdom pertaining to Cross-Border Disaster Relief Prepared by: For the 30 June 2010 Foreword media -> Cuba fieldcourse 2010 Download 5.5 Kb. Share with your friends:
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