Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced 240 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com.

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MIDAMERICA PRODUCTIONS, NEW YORK CITY
PETER TIBORIS GENERAL DIRECTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
IN ASSOCIATION WITH I.U.M.A. MANAGEMENT OF ROME,
CHRISTIAN CATENA FRANCESCONI, GENERAL MANAGER
AND RENATO FRANCESCONI, INTENDANT
WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF SYROS
HONORABLE YANNIS DEKAVALLAS, MAYOR

PRESENTS

FESTIVAL OF THE AEGEAN 2006
CELEBRATING THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOZART'S BIRTH
PETER TIBORIS CONDUCTS THE BOSULAV MARTINU PHILHARMONY
AND AN INTERNATIONAL CAST OF SOLOISTS AT THE
APOLLO MUNICIPAL THEATER "LA PICCOLA SCALA,"
ISLAND OF SYROS, CYCLADES, GREECE
JULY 6, 7, 8, AND 10, 2006

Festival of the Aegean 2006

Apollo Municipal Theater “La Piccola Scala”

Island of Syros, Cyclades, Greece

July 6 and 8, 2006

OPERA AEGEAN
Mozart's Don Giovanni K.527
Gianmaria Romagnoli, Stage Director
The Bohuslav Martinu* Philharmony
Don Giovanni - Armando Mora
Donna Anna - Eilana Lappalainen
Leporello - Stefano Anselmi
Donna Elvira - Simona Bertini

Il Commendatore - Antonio Stragapede
Don Ottavio - Sergej Kiselev
Masetto - Stefano Viti
Zerlina - Giada Amparan
Yannis Xylas, cembalo
Syros Opera Chorus
Members from the Athens Singers and Nakas Conservatory

July 7, 2006
All-Mozart Program
The Bohuslav Martinu* Philharmony
Mozart: Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro K.492
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K.467
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K.550
Jenia Manoussaki, piano

July 10, 2006

Broadway Coda: Broadway Comes to Syros

Selections from West Side Story, Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, Carousel,

The King and I, Porgy and Bess, and more
Melody Kielisch, Soprano, Eilana Lappalainen, Soprano, Giorgio Aristo, Tenor, Antonio Stragapede, Bass
Alexander Frey, Accompanist

Opera Aegean, formed in 2000 as a training program and opera company, has presented nearly 50 young artists, many of whom have gone on to performances with major ensembles and in the premiere venues around the world. Working with legendary performers and trainers such as Sherrill Milnes, Martina Arroyo and Carol Castel, artists are given the unique opportunity to combine intensive training with professional performances.

In 2005 Opera Aegean offered the first complete opera in the company’s history (past performances have been extended scenes). Opera Aegean 2006 pays tribute to the 250^th anniversary of Mozart’s death with a fully staged performance of his opera Don Giovanni, one of the best-loved operas of all time. The Festival also features a night of song featuring the most beloved classics of the opera and Broadway worlds. Both presentations feature an international cast of artists and will take place in the historic Apollo Municipal Theater. Known as “La Piccola Scala,” the Apollo Theater was modeled after Milan’s famed La Scala and is well known as a tourist destination and to residents of Syros Island alike for its opera and theatrical presentations.

Says Peter Tiboris, MidAmerica Productions’ Artistic Director and General Director, “This season’s Mozart celebration is ideally suited for Syros and the Apollo Theater. I have long thought of Syros as the “Salzberg of the Aegean” and what better tribute than to present the work of Salzberg’s greatest son. Don Giovanni, featuring these outstanding singers and directed by the remarkably talented Mr. Romagnoli, will be a great achievement for Opera Aegean; pianist Jenia Manoussaki highlights an exciting program of Mozart classics; and we end this year with a special coda. Carrying on Mozart’s tradition of entertaining music, we present a concert of favorites from the opera and musical theaters worlds. Opera Aegean 2006 promises to be a wonderful weekend of beautiful music in a spectacular setting.”

Peter Tiboris founded MidAmerica Productions, Inc., in 1984 with its first concert on January 7, 1984, which also served as his New York debut, conducting the American Symphony Orchestra and the Louisiana Choir in Rossini's Stabat Mater and two contemporary works by Dinos Constantinides. As an independent producer of classical concerts, MidAmerica presents soloists and choral and instrumental ensembles from around the world in New York's Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. MidAmerica also presents concerts in Eastern Europe and Greece.

In 22 seasons MidAmerica has expanded its presentations to more than 60 concerts annually, and now includes concert opportunities for groups, including the Ensemble Spotlight Series, Madrigal Festival concerts, North American Vocal Jazz Festival, North American Children's Chorale, and Youth Music Debut Series; and programs for individuals, including the Northeast Honors Choir, National Wind Ensemble, and National Festival Orchestra.

MidAmerica has commissioned new compositions and has presented numerous premieres in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. World premieres have included include Dinos Constantinides' Byron's Greece, Hymn to the Human Spirit, and Midnight Fantasy II for Wind Ensemble; John Rutter's Cantate Domino, Distant Land, and Magnificat; and John Leavitt's A Christmas Garland. U.S. premieres have included Mozart's Die Schüldigkeit des Ersten Gebots, Reimann's Concerto for Violin and Cello, Taneyev's Upon Reading a Psalm, Tchaikovsky's Ode to Joy; Mikis Theodorakis' Electra and Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra; and Clausen's Hellas: In the Name of Freedom.

In May 1995 Peter Tiboris founded Elysium Recordings, Inc., which has released 22 recordings to date. In 1998, MidAmerica created the Mykonos International Music Festival in Greece, presenting five concerts by the Elysium String Quartet, with guest artists, Stanley and Naomi Drucker and guitarist Elena Papandreou. The 1999 festival included concurrent classical and jazz festivals. During 2000, the newly renamed Festival of the Aegean featured the reorganized ensemble, Elysium, with pianist Lukas Foss, in a dozen performances throughout Greece and the Greek islands.

Also during 2000, MidAmerica formed Opera Aegean. In its first season, 21 promising artists studied and performed under the guidance of famed baritone Sherrill Milnes, and co-directors Carol Castel and Nicolas DiVirgilio. In the summer of 2001, legendary soprano Martina Arroyo gave a master class and spent 10 days participating with the artistic staff of Opera Aegean.

To date, MidAmerica has produced over 800 concerts worldwide, featuring 2500 American ensembles and nearly 100 international ensembles - more than 100,000 performers in all.

For more information about Opera Aegean or MidAmerica Productions, contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or Kdrohan@midamerica-music.coms

Tickets, at $89, 54, 35, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com

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According to Paul-Elliott Cobbs, the same diligence, determination, self-confidence and love needed to succeed in music is also necessary in everyday situations. This is the philosophy he brings to the Tacoma Youth Symphony Association. As music director, Mr. Cobbs conducts the Tacoma Youth Symphony, Tacoma Junior Youth Symphony, annual Chamber Orchestra and Discover Music Children's Concerts. In addition to his conducting duties, Mr. Cobbs is the head of the chamber music program and leads the musical direction of the entire organization. He is also the music director of the Evergreen Music Festival, music director and conductor of the Everett Symphony and frequent guest conductor and adjudicator throughout the world. He recently completed 7 years as director of orchestras at Central Washington University.

Mr. Cobbs is also an international conductor, with conducting credits from Japan and Europe. In February 1995, he was the first American to conduct the Erzgebirge Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany. Due to the sold-out performance, three encores and seven curtain calls, Mr. Cobbs was named "Star Conductor from the U.S.A." by the Die Freie Presse. In 1996, Mr. Cobbs was invited to conduct two performances of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Leipzig with members of the Dresden and Leipzig operas. The next two seasons he returned to Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Japan for conducting invitations. This past spring, he completed an unprecedented five consecutive seasons as a guest conductor for several Polish National Orchestras.

Mr. Cobbs began his conducting career in Detroit, Michigan where he was the associate conductor of the Detroit Metropolitan Symphony, principal conductor of its chamber orchestra and frequent guest conductor of the Michigan Opera. While in Europe studying conducting at the Akademie für Musik, he was principal conductor of the festival chamber orchestra in Vienna. In the Northwest, he has been a high school instrumental music director, guest lecturer at the Seattle University and University of Washington, conductor at the Marrowstone Music Festival, assistant conductor with the Seattle Opera, conductor of the Seattle Junior Youth Symphony, music director and conductor of the Everett Youth Symphony, conductor of the Discover Music! community concert series with the Seattle Symphony, and music department chairman, orchestra conductor and theory instructor at the Northwest School of the Arts in Seattle.

Winner of various competitions Piero Romano is an international conductor who tours extensively throughout the world. He has collaborated with various orchestras such as the Greensboro Philharmonic; Orquesta del estado de Mexico; Orchestra Sinfonica di Alicante; Baden-Baden Philharmonic; Orquestra Classica de Madeira; Orchestra Sinfonica del Nuevo Leňn; Pforzeim Kammerorkester, United European Chamber Orchestra; Athens State Orchestra. On November 2005 he conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica della Magna Grecia at the Madrid Nacional Auditorium in Spain. Mr. Romano has worked with soloists such as Pavel Vernikov; Ilya Grubert; Pierre Amoyal; Rosanna Miccolupo; Franco Maggio Ormezowsky; Rino Marrone; Robert Gutter; Vincenzo Mariozzi; Werner Stiefel; Katia Ricciarelli; and Antonella Ruggiero.

Soprano Veronica Murua has performed with many orchestras in her native Mexico. Last year, she made her debut at the Teatro de Bellas Artes singing for Mexican president Vicente Fox together with Ramon Vargas, Olivia Gorra, and Rosendo Flores. Ms Murua collaborated with Festival del Centro Historico in their production of Die Walkure singing the role of Gerhilde. She has sung the roles of Violetta; Donna Anna; Fiordiligi; Elle in La Voix Humaine; Micaela; Geraldine in A Hand of Bridge; Nella in Gianni Schicchi; Nedda in I Pagliacci; and The Fox in The Little Prince by Federico Ibarra. Her oratorio and chamber music performances include Hanne in The Seasons by Haydn; Ein Deutsches Requiem by Brahms; Der Hirt aus dem Felsen by Schubert; Sheherezade by Ravel; Les Illuminations by Britten; and Mozart's Pequiem. She has also sung musical theater with OCESA, the biggest musical theater company in Mexico. Ms. Murua won a scholarship from UNAM to study music. She holds a bachelor's degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music and a master’s degree from the University of Illinois, the former under the tutelage of mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn and the latter with Sarah Arneson. At the end of her studies, she was hired by the National School of Music in her native Mexico to teach voice, phonetics and chamber ensembles. Currently, she holds a tenured position at this institution.

Recognized for the richness and agility of her voice, mezzosoprano Carla López Speziale is equally in demand for opera and concert performances. She debuted with the Bellas Artes Opera in her native Mexico in the 2001 season as Duchessa Federica in Luisa Miller, and was invited to open the following season as Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri. For them she has also sung Carmen (Carmen), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), The Old Lady (Candide) and Electra (Orestes parte), as well as Siegrune (Die Walküre).

She has also performed with the Grand Théâtre de Genčve, the Festival Internacional de Música y Escena and the Domingo-Embil Zarzuela in Mexico City; the New York City Opera National Company, Amigos de la Zarzuela and Caramoor Opera in New York, Golden Gate Opera in California, Da Corneto Opera in Chicago, Opera Providence and Utah Festival Opera. Other operas in which she has sung are: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina), La sonnambula (Teresa), Die Zauberflöte (Third Lady), L'enfant et les sortileges (La bergčre/Un pâtre), La favorita (Leonora) , La púrpura de la rosa (Cintia), Madama Butterfly (Kate), Luisa Fernanda (Luisa) and Viva la Zarzuela. She has also performed in the world premiere of Dazzi’s En susurros los muertos (Cuacuauhtzin and Nezahualcoyotl) as well as the Mexican premiere of Adamo’s Little Women (Jo) and Weir’s The Consolations of Scholarship.

Equally comfortable in oratorio and chamber music, Carla López Speziale’s appearances on the concert stage include performances with La serenissima (Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus and Cur sagittas, cur tela, cur faces), the Shanghai Philharmonic (Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony), the Guanajuato University Orchestra (Bach’s Cantata 170), the Jalisco Philharmonic (Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah), the Camerata de las Américas (Respighi’s Lauda per la nativitá del Signore and Saint-Saëns’s Christmas Oratorio), the Mexico National University Philharmonic (Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Berlioz’s Romeo et Juliette, Rossini’s Stabat mater and Mahler’s Second Symphony and Des Knaben Wunderhorn), the Mexico National Symphony (Messiah), the Xalapa Symphony (Mahler’s Second Symphony, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion), the Mexico City Philharmonic (Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony), the State of Mexico Symphony (Bach’s Mass in B minor), the Sinaloa Symphony (Bach’s Magnificat), the Mozart/Haydn Festival Orchestra (Mozart’s Coronation Mass) and the Minería Symphony (Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem). Ms. López Speziale appears frequently in solo recitals in Mexico and the United States.

A prize winner of competitions such as the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the “Vincenzo Bellini” Competition in Italy, the New York District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Queens Opera Competition, the Millennium New York Vocal Artists Competition, the Dicapo Opera Competition and the “Carlo Morelli” Competition in her native Mexico, Ms. López Speziale received her Bachelor of Music from the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico. As a Fulbright scholar, she received her Master and Doctor of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music.

For URTEXT DIGITAL CLASSICS she has recorded Soirée musicale: songs by Gioachino Rossini. Future engagements include Flosshilde and the Second Norn in Götterdämmerung with the Festival de México en el Centro Histórico and the Bellas Artes Opera in Mexico. She will also be performing Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress in California next Spring.

More than 2500 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have 95 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 620 solo artists, and over 100,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall.

In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or kdrohan@midamerica-music.com

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Tickets, at $89, 54, 35, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com

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Arnold Epley is professor of music and director of choral studies at William Jewell College. He conducts the William Jewell Concert Choir, the chapel choir, and the chamber singers. He has taken the William Jewell Choir to England and Scotland for seven concert tours, including performances in the cathedrals of St. Giles, Ely, Lincoln, Durham, Conventry, Southwell, and York. Additional concerts were presented in Grantham and Oxford, at Westminster Abbey, and, in 2003 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Mr. Epley became artistic director and conductor of the Kansas City Symphony Chorus in 1992. Since that time he has prepared the chorus for more than 44 works and 130 performances with the symphony in addition to the chorus' independently presented concerts, guest appearances with other orchestras, and concert tours. William Jewell College honored Dr. Epley with the Carl F. Willard Distinguished Teaching Award and as Professor of the Year in 1999. In 1997 he received the Luther T. Spayde Award, the Missouri Choral Directors Association's highest honor. Arnold Epley has appeared several times with the Kansas City Symphony as Baritone Soloist. His private vocal studio is made up of some of Kansas City's leading singers.

Janet Galván, conductor, is a professor of music at Ithaca College, conducts the Ithaca College Women's Chorale, the Itaca College Chorus, and is artistic director for the Ithaca Children's Choir. In 1995, she received the New York Outstanding Choral Director Award. She has conducted the first college/university Women's Honors Choir at the Easter Division ACDA Conference in 1994, the first Western Division Children's Honors Choir in 1996, and the third ACDA National Children's Honors Choir in 1995. Her own choral groups, including the Ithaca College Women's Chorale, have performed at Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center. Dr. Galván on the artistic staff of Chorale Music Experience, and is a clinician for Boosey & Hawkes. In 1995, the Roger Dean Publishing Company asked her to develop the Janet Galván Women's Choir Series, a choral series for advanced treble choruses. As a soloist she was a member of the Grammy Award-winning Robert Shaw Festival Chorus.

Randy Pagel, a native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has conducted at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, several honor choirs throughout the country, and at national conventions for the American Choral Directors Association, and Music Educators' National Conference. He has conducted concerts for former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, and is scheduled to appear at the White House and Washington's National Cathedral. He has released several recordings, a music video, received various state and national teaching awards, was named the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh "Outstanding Young Alumni", was inducted into the Hall of Fame for both Oshkosh North High School and Clark County School District, and had "Randy Pagel Day" proclaimed in Henderson, Nevada, and Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A frequent guest clinician, he is the author of the book The Choral Director's Guide to Sanity...and Success!

Mary Petro, soprano, has sung for New York audiences as Arminda in La Finta Giardiniera, Susanna in Marriage of Figaro, Fiametta in Boccaccio, and Mimi in La Boheme. Internationally, Ms. Petro has sung Pamina in Magic Flute in Rome, Mimi in Toulouse and La Boheme, and Margarita in Mephistofele in Tel Aviv. Ms. Petro is a winner of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions.

Over the past 22 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performances at some of the world's greatest venues, especially at New York's Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Under the guidance of MidAmerica's founder, Peter Tiboris, the company has presented over 800 concerts worldwide and more than 670 in New York at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

More than 2500 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have 95 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 620 solo artists, and over 100,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall.

In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or kdrohan@midamerica-music.com

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Tickets, at $89, 54, 35, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com

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John Rutter, conductor, a native of London, is well known on both sides of the Atlantic as a composer, conductor, and recording artist. His compositions span choral and orchestral works, carols, school operas, popular music, and music for television. He was director of music at England's Clare College from 1975-79, later forming the Cambridge Singers, a mixed-voice choir that has recorded over two dozen albums, many for his own label, Collegium. In the last few years, several of his recordings have reached Billboard magazine's Classical Top 25 chart. Recently, he initiated the Collegium Choral Series, a music publishing project aimed at making available to choral groups works performed by the Cambridge Singers.

With twenty years experience conducting adult choirs, Linda Bolding brings professional excellence to the choirs she conducts.
Her credentials include a bachelor of music degree from Eastern New Mexico University; a certificate of performance in piano from Nurnberg Conservatory of Music, Germany; a master’s degree in music from the University of Texas; a master’s degree in educational administration from Texas State University; and a doctorate in choral conducting from Columbia Pacific University. She has also worked in Philadelphia under Elaine Brown who supplied choirs for the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. Since founding the Round Rock Community Choir is 1985, Ms. Bolding has been directly responsible for its artistic development and success. She is director of choral ministries at First United Methodist Church, Round Rock, and is well-known for the excellence she brings to both choral organizations.

Jeannette Ebelhar is director of arts and choral Instructor at Pope John Paul II High School in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
As director of arts, Ms. Ebelhar heads the department that offers extensive curricular offerings in drama, instrumental music, private music instruction, choral music, and the visual arts. She has, developed Pope John Paul II High School as a center for the arts for the school and the wider community. Ms. Ebelhar holds a bachelor's degree in music education from Lawrence University Conservatory in Wisconsin, and a master's degree in music education from the University of Illinois in Urbana. She also holds a certificate for piano master class from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Ms. Ebelhar has been an assistant professor of music education at Michigan State University, where she was also the director of the university women's chorus. She has taught in public schools in Westport, Connecticut, and Sumner County. In 1993 she joined the faculties of Overbrook and St. Cecilia Academy, where she has directed the choirs, taught voice, piano, and general music classes.

Charles Hausmann has been director of choral studies and professor of conducting at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston since 1985, where he conducts the Moores School Choral Artists, teaches choral conducting and literature, and supervises the master's and doctoral programs in conducting. As conductor of the Houston Symphony Chorus since 1986, Mr. Hausmann has prepared the chorus for over 300 performances with the Symphony and has lead them on numerous tours to Mexico and Europe. Also active as a church musician, he has been director of music at churches in Colorado, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Texas. He currently serves as director of the St. Philip Presbyterian Church Choir in Houston. Mr. Hausmann holds degrees from Westminster Choir College, The College of New Jersey and the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri. This season he will prepare and conduct choirs in performances of Bach's Mass in B minor, Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard, Vaughan Williams's Dona Nobis Pacem, Bruckner's Te Deum, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rachmaninoff's The Bells, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Schubert's Die Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern, Handel's Messiah, and Pops performances which include "An American Salute," and the annual "A Very Merry Pops Christmas" Concerts with the Houston Symphony.
Other current guest conducting engagements will include performances of Handel's Messiah in Mexico City, and a Carnegie Hall appearance conducting Mozart's Requiem with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.

Over the past 22 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performances at some of the world's greatest venues, especially at New York's Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Under the guidance of MidAmerica's founder, Peter Tiboris, the company has presented over 800 concerts worldwide and more than 670 in New York at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

More than 2500 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have 95 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 620 solo artists, and over 100,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall.

In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or kdrohan@midamerica-music.com
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Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced over 250 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com.

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For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or kdrohan@midamerica-music.com
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