CHRISTOPHER ALLEN conductor / pianist - Alpha Artists ...

Christopher Allen’s career was launched into national
attention when he received the Bruno Walter Conducting
Award and Memorial Career Grant. This award led to his
professional conducting debut of La bohème with Opera
North. Recently he was selected by Maestro James Conlon to
be a conducting assistant and coach for the Domingo-
Thornton Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera for the
2012-2013 season.
This season Mº Allen assisted Maestri James Conlon and
Placido Domingo in the LA Opera production of Don Giovanni
as well as Mº Grant Gershon in Madama Butterfly. Upcoming,
he will be Mº Conlon’s first assistant in The Rape of Lucretia
and Mº Domingo’s first assistant in Lee Holdridge Dolce
Rosa.
During the 2011-12 season, Mº Allen worked as a cover and
assistant conductor with the Atlanta Symphony working along
side Music Director, Robert Spano. He is reëngaged for the
2013 season with the Atlanta Symphony to once again to
assist and cover both Donald Runnicles and Robert Spano.
He currently is on the music staff of Cincinnati Opera as
assistant conductor, a position he has held for the past two
years and returns to assist in Aida for the 2013 season.
During the summer of 2011 Christopher Allen was an
assistant conductor at Cincinnati Opera where he assisted on
John Adams’ A Flowering Tree and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
assisting Bernard Labadie and Joana Carneiro. Mº Allen
returned to Cincinnati Opera for the 2012 Season as an
assistant conductor on Verdi’s La traviata and Astor Piazolla’s
Maria de Buenos Aires.
Christopher Allen has been a recipient of numerous awards
which have led to debuts in venues such as Carnegie’s Weill
Recital Hall, The Kennedy Center, Yamaha Artist Services,
The Juilliard School and the Tenri Cultural Institute. While a
student at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
of music, his production of Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the
Screw was awarded a National Opera Association prize.
As a frequent recitalist, he made his Chicago Mayne Stage
and WFMT debut with baritone, Levi Hernandez. He made his
Matinee Musicale Debut as part of their 99th season with
tenor, Scott Ramsey, which critics described as “ ravishing…a
superb collaboration.”
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN
conductor / pianist
Contact: Nick Netos
Alpha-Artists.com
Education
In 2008 Christopher Allen received a Bachelors of Music in Piano
Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. He received his
Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music while concurrently working
on an Artist Diploma in Opera Coaching.
Recent and Upcoming Activity 2012-13
Don Giovanni assistant conductor for Mº James Conlon, Los
Angeles Opera
Madama Butterfly assistant conductor Mº Grant Gershon, Los
Angeles Opera
The Rape of Lucretia 1 st Assistant to Mº James Conlon, Los
Angeles Opera
Dolce Rosa by Lee Holdridge, 1 st Assistant to Mº Domingo
Atlanta Symphony, Assistant Cover Conductor to Robert Spano
and Donald Runnicles
Cincinnati Opera assistant conductor 2013 season
La traviata, conducting debut with Intermountain Opera,
Boseman, MT (fall 2013)
The 2010 Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation awarded $30,000 in grants to support Associate Conductor Chair at The Baltimore Symphony for Ilyich Rivas, the
Assistant Conductor Chair for Donato Cabrera at the San Francisco Symphony and the Assistant Conductor Chair at Opera North for Christopher Allen in it’s
eighth and final year of grants. The purpose of this annual program is to highlight the importance of assistant conductor positions as essential mentoring and
learning experiences for emerging conductors. These grants are intended to remind musicians and the general public of the invaluable contribution Maestro Walter
made during his lifetime to opera, symphonic music and the training of young conductors.
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Symphonic Repertoire
Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major (Eroica) Op. 55
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Bizet Symphony in C
Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Symphony No. 3 in F major Op. 90
Tragic Overture Op, 81
Double Concerto in A minor Op. 102
Britten The Building of the House Overture
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major
Debussy Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”
Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95
Elgar Enigma Variations Op. 36
Haydn Symphony No. 94 in G major
Symphony No. 104 in D major
Humperdinck Overture to Hansel and Gretel
Knussen Symphony in One Movement
Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major
Songs of a Wayfarer
Mozart Symphony No. 40 in F minor, K.550
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551 “Jupiter”
Overture to Magic Flute
Overture to Marriage of Figaro
Overture to Idomeneo
Flute Concerto in G, K. 313
Rossini Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ruggles Angels
Seeger Andante for Strings
Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in F major, Op. 43
Violin Concert
Stravinsky Rite of Spring (Excerpts)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74
* in preparation
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN
conductor / pianist
Operatic Repertoire
Adams A Flowering Tree
Bizet Carmen
Britten The Rape of Lucretia
Turn of the Screw
Holdridge Dolce Rosa
Menotti The Telephone
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Mozart Idomeneo
Le nozze di Figaro
Die Zauberflöte
Don Giovanni
Piazolla Maria de Buenos Aries
Poulenc Les mamelles de Tirésias
Puccini La bohème
Madama Butterfly
Tosca
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia
J. Strauss Die Fledermaus
Verdi La traviata
Aida
Falstaff
References
Joseph Colaneri—Artistic Director, West Australian Opera
Bernard Labadie—Music Director, Les Violon du Roy
Evans Mirageas—Artistic Director, Cincinnati Opera
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