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Kevin Rhodes Biography

American conductor Kevin Rhodes has had an exceptionally varied career spanning concerts, opera and ballet across the globe, having conducted in 15 different countries with approximately 50 different orchestras.

His work extends from the major opera houses of Europe to the concert stages of the US He has been a presence in the major musical capitols of Europe for over 20 years, with credits including The Paris Opera, The Vienna State Opera, The Berlin State Opera, La Scala of Milan, The Dutch National Ballet, The Verona Ballet, The Stuttgart Ballet, The New York City Ballet and many others, Rhodes is one of the most sought after conductors by the world’s major ballet companies and their orchestras. His work at many of those illustrious opera houses has been seen and heard throughout Europe in many televised appearances and all over the world with the introduction of cinema performances, in addition to a number of productions having been filmed for DVD.

Rhodes began his European career as a house conductor at the Basel Stadtheater in Switzerland. After Basel, he moved on to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf/Duisburg Germany as a First Kappelmeister leading hundreds of performances of the standard operatic repertoire from Magic Flute to Der Rosenkavelier, while at the same time serving as the principal ballet conductor of the Vienna State Opera after a very successful debut season there with Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet. Further engagements followed at many other opera houses and orchestras throughout the continent…Berlin, Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Naples, Verona, Milan, Paris, Stuttgart , etc.

In total he worked for 10 years exclusively in Europe where he led repertoire ranging from the operas of Richard Strauss,Verdi, Puccini, Massanet, Mozart, Smetena and many others to the major ballets of Prokofiev, Bartok, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.

Since returning to the US in 2001 to take over the leadership of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in Massachusetts and Traverse Symphony Orchestra in Michigan, he has devoted himself to the building of those two ensembles as well as attending to the many outreach and education activities of those institutions. Under his leadership those ensembles and audiences have experienced tremendous growth and enthusiasm about classical music. With the start of the 2010-2011 season, he took the reins as Conductor of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston and has been invigorating that ensemble with his trademark energy.

The 2014-2015 season sees Maestro Rhodes returning to the Paris Opera for productions of “Nutcracker” throughout November and December as well as “Swan Lake” in March and April. He then returns to the Vienna State Opera in May and June for “La Sylphide” and the annual Nureyev Gala, a four hour event celebrating the life and career of the famed Russian dancer and choreographer on the occasion of his birthday. Kevin will also make his debut this season with the Santa Fe Symphony in New Mexico. Having had his first positions after college in Albuquerque as the Music Director of the Civic Light Opera and professor of piano at the University of New

Mexico, Maestro Rhodes is particularly looking forward to revisiting that part of the world and making music there again.

Rhodes began his professional conducting career at the age of 16 in his hometown of Evansville, Indiana. He received his BM in Piano Performance from Michigan State University where he studied conducting with Maestro Leon Gregorian, and earned his MM in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Illinois under the tutelage of Paul Vermel.

Kevin Rhodes Curriculum Vitae

Guest Conducting

• Vienna State Opera, Vienna, Austria 2012, 2013, 2015 • Paris Opera, Paris, France 2012, 2014, 2015 • New Tokyo City Philharmonic, Tokyo, Japan 2014 • Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2014 • Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, Tacoma, WA 2013 • Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Windsor, ON 2012 • Dutch National Ballet, (Het National Ballet) – Holland Symfonia, Amsterdam,

Netherlands, 2010 • National Performing Arts Center Orchestra, Bejing, China, 2010 • La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2010, 2006-2007, 2005, 2003, 2001 • Hartford Symphony Orchestra, 2010 • Verona Opera, Verona, Italy, 2006-2007 • Houston Symphony, Houston, Texas, 2007 • Queens Symphony Orchestra, Queens, New York, 2006 • Principal Conductor Chamber Orchestra, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006, 2008 • Symphony Orchestra Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2006 • Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duesseldorf, Germany, 2005 • Rurhgebiet Festival, Bochum, Germany, 2004 • Canton Symphony Orchestra, Canton, Ohio, 2003 • Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Wilmington, Deleware, 2003 • Berlin State Opera, Berlin, Germany, 1999, 2000 • Teato Real, Madrid, Spain, 2000 • Zagreb Philharmonic, Zagreb, Croatia, 2000 • Symphony Orchester Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 1999,2002 • Wuertembuergisches Staatstheater, Stuttgart, Germany, 1998 • Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden,Germany, 1996, 1997, 1998 • Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville, Florida, 1997 • Suedwestfaellisches Philharmonie, Germany, 1996, 1998, 2000

Positions Held

• Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Springfield, Massachusetts Music Director, 2001-present • Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Traverse City, Michigan Music Director, 2001-present • Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston, Massachusetts, Music Director, 2010-present • Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duesseldorf/Duisburg, Germany, Kappelmeister, 1996-2001 • Stadttheater Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Kappelmeister, 1991-1996 • Basel Chamber Symphony, Basel, Switzerland, Music Director, 1995-2001 • Swiss Chamber Philharmonic, Zurich, Switzerland, Music Director, 1999-2001 • Basel Festival Orchestra, Basel, Swizterland, Principal Guest Conductor, 1997-2001

• Albuquerque Civic Light Opera, Albuquerque, NM 1989-1991

Education

• Michigan State University – East Lansing, Michigan Bachelor Degree – Piano Performance 1987

• University of Illinios – Urbana, Illinios Master Degree – Orchestral Conducting 1989 • Aspen Music Fesitval – Aspen, Colorado Conducting Seminar 1986, 1987

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Kevin Rhodes Symphonic Repertoire

Bach

• Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 • Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 • Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 • Piano Concerto D minor

Barber

• Adagio for Strings • Essay No. 1 • Essay No. 2 • Medea • Piano Concerto • Violin Concerto

Bartok

• Concerto for Orchestra • The Miraculous Mandarin • Piano Concerto No. 3 • The Wooden Prince

Beethoven

• Choral Fantasy • Christ on the Mount of Olives • Coriolanus Ov. • Egmont Ov. • Fidelio Ov. • Leonore Ov. No. 1 • Leonore Ov. No. 3 • Piano Concerto No. 1 • Piano Concerto No. 2 • Piano Concerto No. 3 • Piano Concerto No. 4 • Piano Concerto No. 5 • Symphony No. 1 • Symphony No. 2

• Symphony No. 3 • Symphony No. 4 • Symphony No. 5 • Symphony No. 6 • Symphony No. 7 • Symphony No. 8 • Symphony No. 9 • Violin Concerto

Berg

• Violin Concerto

Berlioz

• Le Corsair Ov. • Roman Carnival Overture • Romeo and Juliet • Symphony Fantastique • Three Scenes from “The Damnation of Faust”

Bernstein

• Candide Ov. • Chichester Psalms • Serenade for Violin, Percussion and Strings • Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” • Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah • Symphony No. 2 “Age of Anxiety” • Three Dance Episodes from “On the Town”

Bizet

• L’arlesienne Suites 1&2 • Carmen

Bolcom

• Commedia for (almost) 18th Century Orchestra • Prometheus Chorus Fantasy

Borodin

• In the Steppes of Central Asia • Nocturne • Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor • Prince Igor Ov.

Brahms

• Academic Festival Ov. • Double Concerto • Ein Deutsches Requiem • Piano Concerto No. 1 • Piano Concerto No. 2 • Symphony No. 1 • Symphony No. 2 • Symphony No. 3 • Symphony No. 4 • Tragic Overture • Variations on a Theme by Haydn • Violin Concerto

Bruckner

• Symphony No. 4

Chadwick

• Melpomene Dramatic Overture

Chopin

• Piano Concerto No. 1 • Piano Concerto No. 2

Copland

• Appalachian Spring • Clarinet Concerto • Fanfare for the Common Man • A Lincoln Portrait • Music for the Theatre • Rodeo Suite • Symphony No. 3 • Quiet City

Corigliano

• “To Music”

Debussy

• Iberia • La Mer

• Prelude a l’apres midi d’un faune

Delibes

• Coppelia

Donizetti

• Roberto Deveraux Ov. • Lucia di Lammermoor

Dukas

• Le Peri • Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Duparc

• Aux Étoiles

Dvorak

• Carnival Overture • Cello Concerto • Piano Concerto • Symphony No. 7 • Symphony No. 8 • Symphony No. 9

Elgar

• Cello Concerto

de Falla

• El Amor Brujo

Fauré

• Requiem

Franck

• Symphony D minor

Gershwin

• American in Paris • Piano Concerto in F

Glinka

• Russlan und Ludmilla

Gregson

• Trumpet Concerto

Grieg

• Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 • Piano Concerto

Griffes

• The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Kahn

Harris

• Symphony No. 3

Haydn

• Symphony No. 94 • Symphony No. 104

Hindemith

• Symphonic Metamorphosis

Holst

• The Planets

Honegger

• Kind David • Pastoral d’ete

Hovahness

• Guitar Concerto

Hummel

• Trumpet Concerto E flat major

Ives

• The Unanswered Question

Khatchaturian

• Piano Concerto • Sabre Dance • Violin/Flute Concerto

Liebermann

• Piano Concerto No. 3

Liszt

• Faust Symphony • Festklänge • Les Preludes • Prometheus

Mahler

• Das Lied von der Erde • Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen • Symphony No. 1 • Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” • Symphony No. 5

Mendelssohn

• Midsummer Night’s Dream Music • Symphony No. 3 • Symphony No. 4 “Italian” • Violin Concerto

Menin

• Concertato “Moby Dick”

Milhaud

• “Le boef sur le toit”

Mozart

• Adagio and Fugue for Strings • Great Mass in C minor • Le Nozze di Figaro • Piano Concerto No. 25 • Concerto for Two Pianos • Requiem • Symphony No. 29 • Symphony No. 31 • Symphony No. 40 • Symphony No. 41 • Cosi fan Tutte • Don Giovanni

Mussorgsky

• Night on Bald Mountain Original Version • Night on Bald Mountain – Rimsky-Korsakov • Pictures at an Exhibition

Orff

• Carmina Burana

Piston

• Symphony No. 4

Poulenc

• Aubade for Piano and 18 Instruments • Gloria for Chorus

Prokofiev

• Alexander Nevsky • Cinderella • Piano Concerto No. 1 • Piano Concerto No. 3 • Romeo and Juliet • Symphony No. 1 “Classical” • Symphony No. 5 • Violin Concerto No. 2

Rachmaninoff

• Isle of the Dead • Piano Concerto No. 1, 2, 3, 4

• Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini • Symphonic Dances • Symphony No. 1 • Symphony No. 2 • Symphony No. 3

Ravel

• Alborado del Gracioso • Bolero • Daphnis et Chloe • La Valse • Piano Concerto • Le Tombeau de Couperin • Les Valses Noble et Sentimental

Respighi

• The Birds • Botticelli Triptych • Church Windows • The Pines of Rome

Revueltes

• Sensemaya

Rimsky-Korsakov

• Scheherezade • Russian Easter Overture • Symphony No. 2 “Antar”

Rodrigo

• Guitar Concerto

Rossini

• Barber of Seville Ov. • L’italiana in Algeri Overture • Semiramide Ov. • The Silken Ladder Ov. • Thieving Magpie Ov. • William Tell Ov.

Saint-Seans

• Carnival of the Animals • Piano Concerto No. 2 • Symphony No. 3 “Organ”

Schoenberg

• Chamber Symphony No. 2 • Verklaerte Nacht

W. Schuman

• American Festival Overture • Night Journey • Symphony No. 3 • Symphony No. 5 • Prayer in a Time of War

Schumann

• Symphony No. 1 “Spring” • Symphony No. 2 • Symphony No. 4

Shostakovich

• Festive Overture • Symphony No. 5

Sibelius

• Lemminkainen Suite – Four Legends from the Kalevala • Symphony No. 1 • Symphony No. 2 • Symphony No. 5 • Violin Concerto • Smetena The Bartered Bride • The Moldau

J. Strauss

• Blue Danube Waltz • Emperor Waltz • Die Fledermaus • Pizzicato Polka • Voices of Spring Waltz

R. Strauss

• Also Sprach Zarathustra • Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme • Don Juan • Don Quixotte • Die Frau ohne Schatten • Der Rosenkavelier • Salome • Tod und Verklärung

Stravinsky

• Apollo • The Firebird • l’Histoire du soldat • Petrouschka • Pulicinella • Sacre de Printemps

Tchaikovsky

• Francesca de Rimini • The Nutcracker • Piano Concerto No. 1 • Piano Concerto No. 2 • Romeo and Juliet • Serenade for Strings • Sleeping Beauty • Swan Lake • Symphony No. 1 • Symphony No. 2 • Symphony No. 3 • Symphony No. 4 • Symphony No. 5 • Symphony No. 6 • The Tempest • Variations on a Roccoco Theme • Violin Concerto

Vivaldi

• The Four Seasons

Verdi

• Aida • La Forza del Destino Ov. • Nabucco Ov.

• Rigoletto • Il Trovatore

Wagner

• Brunnhilde’s Immolation Scene • Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla • Magic Fire Music • Ride of the Valkyries • Siegried Idyll • Siegfried’s Funeral March • Siegfried’s Rhine Journey • Tannhäuser • Tristan und Isolde – Prelude u. Liebestod

Zwillich

• “Rituals” For 5 Perc and Orch

Kevin Rhodes Opera Repertoire

Donizetti

• Lucia di Lammermoor

Humperdinck

• Haensel und Gretel

Massanet

• Manon

Mozart

• Cosi fan Tutte • Die Zauberfloete • Le Nozzi di Figaro

Offenbach

• Contes d’Hoffman • Orphée aux Enfers

Puccini

• La Boheme • Tosca

Rossini

• Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Smetena

• Die Verkaufte Braut

J. Strauss

• Die Fledermaus

R. Strauss

• Der Rosenkavelier • Die Frau ohne Schatten • Salome

Verdi

• Aida • Il Trovatore • Rigoletto

Wagner

• Tannhäuser

Kevin Rhodes Ballet Repertoire

Bartok

• The Miraculous Mandarin • The Wooden Prince

Delibes

• Coppelia

Glazounov

• Raymonda

Mendelssohn

• A Midsummer’s Night Dream

Prokofiev

• Cinderella • Romeo and Julliet

Ravel

• Daphnis et Chloe

Stravinsky

• Firebird • Petrouschka • The Rite of Spring

Tchaikovsky

• The Nutcracker • The Sleeping Beauty • Swan Lake