New Zealand

Based in the UK, Tianyi is the Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Music Director designate of the Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra. She has been assistant conductor to Thomas Søndergård with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Sir Mark Elder with the Hallé, Alice Farnham with the Welsh National Youth Opera and Carlo Rizzi at the RWMCD. She is regularly engaged by orchestras throughout Wales and New Zealand and was Music Director of The Magic Flute with Opera Otago.

Tianyi has studied with David Jones, John Hopkins and Uwe Grodd and has attended master classes with Bernard Haitink, Neemi Järvi, Sian Edwards, Alexander Polynichko, Marin Alsop and Kenneth Kiesler. She was voted as a finalist at the twelfth ‘Interaktion’ conducting workshop by players of the Berlin Philharmonic and professional players in Germany.

2016 Hart Institute Concert Performance Selections

• Non Monsieur mon mari , Les mamelles de Tirésias – Poulenc
• Alerte! Alerte! , Faust – Gounod
• Overture , – Rossini

Greece

Zoe Zeniodi has conducted productions at the Florida Grand Opera, Greek National Opera, Onassis Cultural Center and guest conducted all the major Greek orchestras, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, Palm Beach Symphony, New Florida Philhamornic, JONDE, among others.

She is currently the Music Director of Broward Symphony Orchestra, Momentum Athens Chamber Orchestra and the Associate Music Director of the Festival of the Aegean.

Previous positions include: Chief Conductor of MOYSA, Assistant/Cover Conductor for Florida Grand Opera, Music Director of Alhambra Orchestra and Associate Conductor of Frost Symphony Orchestra. She has released 5 CD recordings of contemporary music.

Zoe holds a DMA in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Miami and also studied at the Royal College of Music and the Mozarteum, Salzburg.

2016 Hart Institute Concert Performance Selections

• Come dal ciel precipita , Macbeth – Verdi
• Prelude , Dead Man Walking – Heggie
• Anne! Here! / Could it then , The Rake’s Progress – Stravinsky

Romania

Mihaela Cesa-Goje has gained widespread attention in 2009 as the winner of the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship founded by Marin Alsop. Mihaela is also the winner of the Conducting Grant from the League of American Orchestras in 2010. In 2011 she was awarded the Dudamel Fellowship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Also in 2011, Mihaela was selected out of 160 candidates for a masterclass with Bernard Haitink and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. In 2003 Mihaela received the “Sandor Vegh Prize” from the Romanian Mozart Society for an outstanding performance of Mozart’s “Der Schauspiele Direktor” at the Cluj National Opera, Romania. In 2005, she completed her Conducting Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music in London and was awarded the Irene Burcher Prize. In 2013, Mihaela graduated in conducting from Dima Music Academy in Cluj, Romania with Florentin Mihaescu. She also studied with Harold Farberman, Gustav Meier, Patrick Russill and Roland Börger. From 2014, Mihaela has been regularly invited to Cluj National Opera. In her first season here she conducted 8 different titles.

2016 Hart Institute Concert Performance Selections

• Dead Man Walking – Heggie
• Prelude , Carmen – Bizet
• Mira o Norma , Norma – Bellini

USA/Taiwan

Winner of the 2009 International Conductors’ Workshop and Competition, Chaowen Ting currently serves as Conductor of the Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra. A protégé of Bernard Haitink, Ting studied with the maestro at Lucerne Festival and was later invited by Haitink to observe his work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Outside of the U.S., she has conducted the Lucerne Festival Strings (Switzerland), Mihail Jora Bacau Philharmonic (Romania), Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (Croatia), St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic (Russia), and Orquesta Filarmónica de Honduras (Honduras). She won the 2013 Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship and was a Conducting Fellow at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. In addition to her symphonic repertoire, opera productions she directed received honors from National Opera Association’s Opera Production Competitions for two consecutive years.

2016 Hart Institue Concert Performance Selections

• Komm, Frühling! , Silent Night – Puts
• Overture , Idomeneo – Mozart
• Era eguale la voce , Gianni Schicchi – Puccini

France

As a musician of many talents with a charismatic personality and artistic sensibility, Alexandra Cravero has quickly imposed herself as one of this generation’s new and upcoming conductors

With a National Diploma and Masters in viola and conducting from the National French Conservatory, Alexandra was also finalist at the Besancon, Pedrotti, and Cadaques competitions.

She has assisted Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Tito Ceccherini, Patrick Davin and directed the BBC, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, the Sofia Radio, the Theatre de La Monnaie and the Opera National du Rhin Orchestras.
On the operatic stage, she has directed, among others, Annick Massis, Michael Spyres, Magdalena Kožená, Etienne Dupuis.

Her vast operatic repertoire spans many centuries: Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, Norma, Faust, Porgy and Bess, the Cunning Little Vixen, Reigen, Doctor Atomic, to name a few. Upcoming events will see Alexandra Cravero direct the Tales of Hoffmann, Tosca, Traviata, and the Orchestre National de Lille at the Paris Philharmonic Hall.

2016 Hart Institute Concert Performance Selections

• Overture, Nabucco – Verdi
• Lonely House, Street Scene – Weill
• Sola sola in buio loco, Don Giovanni – Mozart