An Evening at the Opera - August 2nd at 7:30pm
RSO Summer Concert on Danbury Town Green, Ives Street
Rain Location: Danbury High School, Clapboard Hill Road
Contact number in case of rain: 203-792-1711

Petko Dimitrov, Conductor  |  T.D.Ellis, Artistic Director

Rossini - Overture to The Barber of Seville
Arias and duets from operas by Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, and Mozart
   Caroline Chanin, mezzo-soprano
   William Joyner, tenor
Bizet - Highlights from Carmen

Bring chairs and picnic
Tickets: FREE

Petko Dimitrov, Conductor
Petko Dimitrov is the Music Director of the Ridgefield Symphony Youth Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Dimitrov also serves as Assistant Conductor of the Haddonfield Symphony and Principle Guest Conductor of the New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2007, the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation awarded Petko its prestigious emerging conductor award.

Petko was born in 1973. He took his first music lessons at the age of seventeen from his grandfather, a choral conductor, arranger, and composer. He graduated the State Academy of Music in 2000 with a Bachelor Degree in Music Pedagogy. In his native Bulgaria he also studied orchestra conducting with Ivan Bakalov, Vassil Kazandjiev, and Rossen Milanov. Petko made his debut as a conductor with the New Symphony Orchestra, Sofia, Bulgaria, in May 1998, performing a concert with music by Sir Michael Tippet and Henry Purcell, in collaboration with The British Council. Since then he has been an assistant Conductor of the Orchestra and has performed subscription concerts and commissions regularly. He has also been active as a Conductor of a Chamber Ensemble of The New Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2001 Petko Dimitrov has been studying and working in the United States. In 2004 he completed his Master Degree in Orchestra Conducting at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the direction of Prof. Kenneth Kiesler. During his time in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he performed concerts with the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Campus Philharmonia Orchestra, and Campus Symphony Orchestra.

Recently, Petko completed his studies with Prof. Gustav Meier at the Peabody Conservatory, John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, where he pursued a Graduate Performance Diploma in Orchestral Conducting. As an assistant conductor of the Peabody Symphony Orchestra Mr. Dimitrov took over a performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with only three days notice.


T.D.Ellis, Artistic Director
T.D. Ellis received his musical education at the Hartt School of Music and the State University of New York at Purchase. He is principal bassoonist and personnel manager of the Ridgefield Symphony and Bermuda Philharmonic, and has appeared as a soloist with the Ridgefield Symphony and Chappaqua Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Ellis also plays bassoon and contrabassoon with the Greenwich Symphony and Greater Bridgeport Symphony. He may often be heard with many orchestras throughout the metropolitan New York area. He is a founding member of the RidgeWinds Quintet; has performed with the Quintet of the Americas and was a guest-artist-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College. He has played off-Broadway with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players and the Jewish Repertory Theater, and has been principal bassoon for the Ives Festival Orchestra, the Tamworth (NH) Music Festival, and the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival in Deep Creek, Maryland. He teaches bassoon at Fail-field University and the University of Bridgeport.

Caroline Chanin
Caroline Chanin has sung at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, New York's Town Hall, The National Arts Club, the Vineyard Theatre and the Westport Country Playhouse in its acclaimed production of A Christmas Carol directed by Tazewell Thompson. In opera, Ms. Chanin has performed the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola and has sung Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. She has performed principal roles in Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), Tales of Hoffmann (Giulietta) and Cosi Fan Tutte (Dorabella). Regional musical theatre credits include Lady Thiang in The King and I, Julie in Showboat and Yente in Fiddler on the Roof. Ms. Chanin has also presented song recitals throughout the United States and Canada.

William Joiner
Over the course of his career, tenor William Joyner has given more than 475 performances of 50 different roles, in 10 countries on 3 continents. He has sung in some of the world’s foremost opera theaters, including Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Bologna’s Teatro Comunale, Venice’s Gran Teatro la Fenice, Paris’ Opéra National (Bastille), Brussels’ Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Berlin’s Deutsche Oper and Deutsche Staatsoper, The Washington National Opera, Miami’s Florida Grand Opera, The New York City Opera, and The Santa Fe Opera. William Joyner has performed with the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Münchener Rundfunkorchester, and has worked with some of the greatest maestri of our time, including Daniel Barenboim, the late Gary Bertini, Bertrand de Billy, John DeMain, Heinz Fricke, the late Armin Jordan, Vladimir Jurowski, Anne Manson, Antonio Pappano, Georges Prêtre, and the late Marcello Viotti.

When not traveling, William Joyner lives in Connecticut with his family.



 
 

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