Brian DeMaris
Conductor, Pianist, Composer
Brian DeMaris
Conductor, Pianist, Composer
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Conductor, Pianist, Composer
Conductor, Pianist, Composer
Equally at home in opera, musical theatre, symphony, ballet and pops, and involved with the development of over two dozen new works, Brian DeMaris has worked with Anchorage Opera, Arizona Opera, Opera Columbus, El Paso Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, Syracuse Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, Charlottesville Opera, American Lyric Theatre and American Opera Projects. He has served as Principal Conductor of Anchorage Opera, Music Director of Mill City Summer Opera, and was assistant conductor of the New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera and Glimmerglass Opera, and on the music staff at Opera Theater of Saint Louis. He has led concerts with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra, the Syracuse Orchestra, St. Cloud Symphony, Music St. Croix, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared at the United Nations, the Aspen Music Festival, Boston’s Jordan Hall, New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Alice Tully Hall, and in recitals, competitions, and master classes throughout the United States and abroad. He is a three-time winner of the American Prize in Opera and Musical Theater Conducting. He was previously Director of Opera and Musical Theatre at Ithaca College, and currently serves as Artistic Director of Music Theatre and Opera at Arizona State University. (Read more...)
April 2024
Summer 2024
September 13 and 14, 2024
September 26, 2024
March, 2024
June and July, 2025
“…Brian DeMaris' baton extracted the best and most beautiful parts of Puccini's music. I've always compared Puccini to a rich pastry, full of beauty and yet light and simple in execution. Maestro DeMaris handles the orchestra with great grace, allowing those moments where Puccini is the most luscious to hesitate, almost for a moment, so that the audience is suspended in this great beauty. - Today y mañana
“… conductor Brian DeMaris drew some warmly expressive playing at relaxed tempos, which gave welcome scope for the subtle nuancing of Mozart’s scoring to register.” – Star-Tribune
“Under conductor Brian DeMaris, who marks his fifth production with Anchorage Opera, the ensemble brings energy and precision to the score.” – Anchorage Daily News
“Under the direction of Brian DeMaris, the band roars with richness and depth, capturing the ebb and flow of the ship’s journey and, in the final poignant moments of the show, becoming an exaltation of those lost at sea and the survivors who shared their memories.” – Broadway World
“The orchestra impressed throughout under Brian DeMaris’ direction…” – Pioneer Press
“The band… played punchily under the excellently paced direction of Brian DeMaris. They turned the screw effectively on Sondheim’s sizzling music…” – Star Tribune
“DeMaris polished the singing and the orchestral accompaniment until it sparkled. I’ve never heard the orchestra sound better, as under DeMaris’ baton.” – Broom Arts Mirror