Overture Magazine - 2015-2016 Season January-February 2016 | Page 23

Lisa Ko h ler

Constantine
Kitsopoulos

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
in musical theater, where he can be
found leading orchestras on Broadway.
Mr. Kitsopoulos was music director
of the Queens Symphony Orchestra
for eight years and continues as general
director of Chatham Opera, which he
founded in 2005. He serves as music director of the Festival of the Arts BOCA,
an extraordinary multi-day cultural arts
event for South Florida, and was most
recently appointed artistic director of
the OK Mozart Festival, Oklahoma’s
premier music festival, where he led his
third season i