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Steven Karidoyanes
Conductor and Music Director

As a conductor, Sanders Theatre. He has also held
composer, and the posts of Music Director of the
broadcaster, Boston College Symphony Orchestra,
Boston native Associate Conductor of the Winston-
Steven Karidoyanes brings a wealth of Salem Symphony and Greensboro
musical experiences to the podium. Symphony orchestras in North Carolina,
and Assistant Conductor of the Rhode
This is Mr. Karidoyanes’ 30th season as Island Philharmonic. He has served
Conductor and Music Director of the on the faculty of the Boston University
Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. It is Tanglewood Institute for ten seasons and
also his 20th season conducting the New on the conducting faculty of the New
England Conservatory Youth Symphony, England Conservatory.
leading concerts in Boston’s most
prestigious concert venues and in past Complementing his performing activities,
concert tours of Italy, Greece, Costa Rica, Mr. Karidoyanes is a composer and
Eastern Europe, Ireland, and Spain. Since member of ASCAP. His composition,
2008, he is also an understudy conductor Yerakína: Dionysian Dance for Orchestra,
for the Boston Pops Orchestra. He made was written for and premiered by the
his Boston Pops conducting debut in Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and has
Symphony Hall in December 2016. already been performed by the Boston
Pops. His Café Neon: Fantasy on Greek
Past international conducting Songs and Dances has been performed
engagements include Hungary’s Savaria over forty times by two dozen orchestras
Symphony Orchestra in Hainburg, coast to coast plus Italy, Greece, and
Austria, the Prague Symphony Chamber Australia. A classical music announcer/
Orchestra, Costa Rica’s National Music producer, Mr. Karidoyanes has worked
Institute Youth Symphony, and return for National Public Radio affiliates in
engagements with the North Czech Boston, North Carolina, and Indiana.
Philharmonic. In January 2016 he
conducted a series of concerts with the Steven Karidoyanes holds a Bachelor of
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Music Degree from Boston University
Karidoyanes has also guest conducted and received training in orchestral
the Syracuse Symphony, Rochester conducting at the Canford School of
Philharmonic, and orchestras in the Music in Dorset, England, where he
Washington, D.C. region. Opera studied with the renowned British
productions conducted include Cape conducting coach, George Hurst.
Cod Opera’s Carmen, The Mikado by the Additional orchestral studies earned
Bostonian Opera & Concert Ensemble him the Outstanding Graduate Student
[a.k.a. “The Bostonians”] and Opera-by- Award for two consecutive years from Ball
the-Bay’s (MA) Die Fledermaus. State University in Indiana.

For a decade Mr. Karidoyanes was Mr. Karidoyanes lives in Boston with his
Music Director of Boston’s Masterworks wife, Amy. They have two sons, Michael
Chorale, conducting choral/orchestral and Nicholas.
masterworks in Harvard University’s

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