Constantine Kitsopoulos conductor

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, Alice Tully Hall and Royal Albert Hall, and musical theater, where he can be found leading orchestras on Broadway. Mr. Kitsopoulos is in his sixth year as music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and continues as General Director of Chatham Opera, which he founded in 2005.

Mr. Kitsopoulos starts his 2011/12 season with a Philadelphia Orchestra debut at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and a summer tour of Dream with Me with young singing sensation Jackie Evancho at the Ravinia and Sun Valley festivals, Atlanta Symphony, Dallas Symphony and at the Omaha Holland Performing Arts Center. In addition, he makes appearances with the New Jersey and Napa Valley symphonies, Little Orchestra Society and returns to Indiana University where he conducts Bolcom's A View From the Bridge and Baldwin-Wallace College where he conducts Don Giovanni.

Highlights of the 2010/11 season included debuts with the Dallas, North Carolina, Charlotte and Tucson symphonies, OK Mozart Festival and a reengagement with Calgary Philharmonic. In recent seasons, Mr. Kitsopoulos made debuts with the Tokyo Philharmonic in Japan and at the Festival of the Arts Boca with the Russian National Orchestra. He has also led the Baltimore, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, New Jersey, Pittsburgh and San Francisco symphony orchestras, as well as the Blossom Festival Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra and New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

In the 2010/11 season, Mr. Kitsopoulos conducted the Baldwin-Wallace College's production of La Bohème and a production of Die Fledermaus at the Indiana University Opera Theater, where he first worked in 2008/09 in a production of The Most Happy Fella. Previous seasons' operatic highlights include the Dicapo Opera Theatre's productions of The Merry Widow, Gounod's Faust and all three versions of Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Chatham Opera's debut production of Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Hong Kong Municipal Opera production of Carmen in both Hong Kong and Beijing, and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at Alice Tully Hall. He also served as Music Director and created the orchestrations for the world premiere production of Ed Dixon's Fanny Hill at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut.

Mr. Kitsopoulos has also continued to show his ability and interest in performing new works and conducting a wide variety of genres. He conducted the Red Bull Artsehcro, an orchestra consisting of students from the top conservatories and university music programs in the country, in a concert at Carnegie Hall featuring a program of world premieres by Raul Yanez and Laura Karpman.

In addition to his orchestral and classical commitments, Mr. Kitsopoulos is much in demand as a theatre conductor, both on Broadway and nationwide. Mr. Kitsopoulos was Conductor and Musical Director of the Tony-nominated musical A Catered Affair. He conducted 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, conducting the new musical Mambo Kings in San Francisco, serving as Music Director of Frank Wildhorn's Dracula and Les Misérables and conducting Matthew Bourne's Broadway production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Constantine Kitsopoulos studied conducting with his principal teacher Vincent La Selva, as well as Gustav Meier, Sergiu Commissiona, and Semyon Bychkov. He studied piano with Marienka Michna, Chandler Gregg, Ed Edson, and Sophia Rosoff.

His first recording – Baz Luhrmann's production of La Bohème – was released by Dreamworks. His recording of Happy End, the only English language recording of the work, was released by Ghostlight. The original Broadway cast album of A Catered Affair was released by P.S. Classics.

Date Last Edited: 22nd July 2011

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