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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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