My Resume

CURRENT POSITIONS

  • Music Director, Vero Beach Opera (2022-present)
  • Music Director, Varna International Festival (2018-present)
  • Music Director, Muzika! Grand Strand Music Festival (2022-present)
  • Guest Conductor, Cyprus Symphony Orchestra (2024)
  • Guest Conductor, South Florida Symphony Orchestra (2021-present)
  • Conductor, Music for Life Opera (2024)

PAST POSITIONS

  • Conductor, Florida Grand Opera (2020-2024)
  • Conductor, Opera Orlando (2022)
  • Conductor, Teatro Lirico D’europa (2021-2023)
  • Conductor, Vienna Summer Music Festival (2021-2022)
  • Conductor, Pacific Northwest Opera (2022)
  • Cover Conductor/Maestro di Banda, Metropolitan Opera (1994-2020)
  • Artistic Director/Conductor, Opera Camerata of Washington D.C. (2001-present)
  • Artistic Director/Conductor, Opera Fairbanks (2007-2020)
  • Guest conductor, North Czech Philharmonic, Smetena Hall, Prague (2020)
  • Conductor, New England Conservatory, Boston (2020)
  • Music Director/Conductor, Opera Las Vegas (2010-2017)
  • Principal Conductor, Varna International Festival (2018 to 2020)
  • Chorus Master/Cover Conductor, Santa Fe Opera (2005-2007)
  • Conductor, Savonlinna Festival, Finland (2001)
  • Conductor, Los Angeles Opera (2001)
  • Conductor, Spoleto Festival (2009)
  • Guest Conductor, Mediterranean Opera Festival (2017)
  • Conductor, Amore Opera, New York City (2009-2015)
  • Guest Conductor, New Opera World Festival, Moscow (2016)
  • Guest Conductor, Kazakhstan Symphony Orchestra (1996)
  • Guest Conductor, Cairo Symphony (1996)
  • Conductor/Chorus Master, Theater des Westens, Berlin (1993-1994)
  • Chorus Master, Bregenz Festival, Austria (1994-1995)
  • Guest Chorus Master, Chautauqua Symphony (1992)
  • Conductor, Israel Vocal Arts Institute (1988, 1997)
  • Conductor, New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble (1988-1995)
  • Music Director/Conductor, New Rochelle Opera (1987-1994)
  • Music Director/Conductor, Manhattan Opera Association (1988-994)
  • Music Director/Conductor, Choros Aristos (1992-1995)
  • Assistant Conductor, Santa Fe Opera (1986)
  • Assistant Conductor, Des Moines Metro Opera (1985)
  • Chorus Master, Bel Canto Opera, New York City (1987-1988)
  • Assistant Conductor, Opera Music Theater of New Jersey (OMTI) (1988-1990)
  • Assistant Conductor, Montclair State University Opera Department (1989-1990)
  • Assistant Conductor, SUNY Purchase, Opera Department (1983-1985)
  • Assistant Chorus Master, Metropolitan Opera (1989-1994)

EDUCATION

  • BFA in Music, SUNY Purchase
  • Manhattan School of Music (College)
  • Mannes School of Music (Pre-College)
  • American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria  (AIMS)

CONDUCTING TEACHERS

  • Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa; have worked extensively with James Levine at the MET and Alan Gilbert at Santa Fe

PIANO TEACHERS

  • Arthur Balsam, Nina Svetlanova, Arkady Aronov, German Diez

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

  • English, German, Italian, some French, working knowledge of some Russian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Latin