Nov 17th Open Masterclass

November 17th Open Masterclass

Come listen to world renowned conductor Constantine Kitsopolous rehearse with our very own Symphonic Orchestra!

• November 17, from 6:45 PM to 9:00 PM
• The Cullen Center on the Westminster Choir College Campus
• 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540

Space is limited. RSVP using the form below is required.

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About the Maestro:
Constantine Kitsopoulos has established himself as a dynamic conductor known for his ability to work in many different genres and settings. Equally at home with opera, symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, music theater, and composition, his engagements have led him to conduct worldwide, appearing with major orchestras in North America as well as the Hong Kong and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras. 

The 2025–26 season includes Kitsopoulos’s return to the New York Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, and New Jersey Symphony, among others. In the past two seasons he has also returned to The Philadelphia Orchestra and Pacific, New Jersey, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco symphony orchestras, as well as the New York Philharmonic. Past highlights have also included appearances with the Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Phoenix, New Jersey, San Francisco, Houston, Toronto, and Vancouver symphony orchestras.

Kitsopoulos served as music director of the Festival of the Arts Boca (2010–23), general director of Chatham Opera (2005–15), and assistant chorus master at New York City Opera 1984–89). He has developed semi-staged productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute (for which he penned a new translation) and Don Giovanni, and Puccini’s La Bohème. He conducted Indiana University Opera Theater’s productions of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Bernstein’s Mass and Candide, Verdi’s Falstaff, J. Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, William Bolcolm’s A View from the Bridge, Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific and Oklahoma, Wilson’s The Music Man, and Menotti’s The Last Savage.

On Broadway, Kitsopoulos has been music director of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (cast album on PS Classics), Harvey Fierstein and John Buccino’s A Catered Affair (cast album on PS Classics), Adrian Sutton’s music for Coram Boy, Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Bohème (cast album on DreamWorks Records), Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Les Misérables. He was music director of ACT’s production of Weill / Brecht’s Happy End and conducted its only English-language recording for Sh-K-Boom Records.
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Constantine Kitsopoulos studied piano with Marienka Michna, Chandler Gregg, Edward Edson, and Sophia Rosoff. He studied conducting with Semyon Bychkov, Sergiu Commissiona, Gustav Meier, and his principal teacher, Vincent La Selva.