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Gregory Buchalter
Gregory Buchalter, Artistic Director of Opera Fairbanks, lives in New York
City but will return to Fairbanks in July to conduct Mozart’s Don Giovanni
featuring several of his Metropolitan Opera colleagues. Previously for
Opera Fairbanks he has conducted Tosca, La Centerentola and a Gala
performance celebrating Alaska's 50th anniversary as a state and featuring
Vivica Genaux. Also Artistic Director of Opera Camerata of Washington,
he just conducted Faust with them. Mr. Buchalter has conducted Salomé
at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland with Maria Ewing and Helga
Dernesch, Die Fledermaus at the Vienna Volksoper, Mozart's Entfuhrung
aus dem Serail at the Spoleto Festival. He was the first American to
conduct with the Kazakstan State Opera; the performances there included
a televised Gala concert for the President of Kazakstan.
Mr. Buchalter has been Chorus Master of the Santa Fe Opera, the Bregenz
Festival in Austria, Theater des Westens in Berlin and the Chautauqua
Symphony Orchestra.
He has been a member of the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera for
almost 20 years. There he has worked extensively with the Metropolitan
Opera Chorus and has been Chorus Master at the Met for several
productions including the telecast of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of
Don Giovanni and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. In addition
to working as a cover conductor at the Met, the position of “Maestro di
Banda” was created at the MET for him. He has also prepared several
world premiers at the MET: John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of
Versailles, Philip Glass’ The Voyage and John Harbison’s
The Great Gatsby. In the latter, Mr. Buchalter created the on-stage
part of the jazz band conductor.
February 1992, Mr. Buchalter founded his own chorus, “Choros Aristos”,
and led them in a performance of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle
at New York’s Merkin Hall in commemoration of that composer’s 200th
birthday. In 1995, he conducted the “Metropolitan Consort”, a group
comprised of members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in a highly
successful concert of Baroque music. For several seasons he has been
guest conductor with the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble where he has
conducted such works as Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. As both pianist
and conductor, Mr. Buchalter has toured such places as Cairo, Kuwait,
Malaysia, Turkey and Hong Kong. As a lecturer and speaker he has been
invited to hold Master Classes throughout the United States.
Artistic / Music Director
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