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Biography
Joseph Illick is the Artistic Director of Fort Worth Opera. For ten years he was the Executive and Artistic Director of Performance Santa Fe (formerly the Santa Fe Concert Association). He has also served as Artistic Director of the Lake George Opera Festival, as Interim Artistic Director of Greater Miami Opera (now Florida Grand Opera) and as Music Director of the Pittsburgh Opera Theater. He has served as Artistic Director of Shreveport Opera and Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Lirico D’Europa. He has also conducted for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Opera Carolina, San Francisco Opera (Merola), Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Augusta Opera, Skylight Opera Theater, Eugene Opera, Nevada Opera Theater, Minnesota Opera National Tour, Pittsburgh Opera Theater, Greater Miami Opera, Teatro Lirico d’Europa, Lake George Opera Festival, Atlantic Opera USA, Stadttheater Aachen, Vienna Chamber Opera and the Covent Garden Ensemble. Upcoming engagements, in addition to Fort Worth Opera, include Opera Omaha and the Bard Music Festival. He is the conductor of the Albany label recording of the world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri’s opera FRAU MARGOT and the world premiere of Jorge Martin’s opera BEFORE NIGHT FALLS.
His symphonic engagements include the Augusta Symphony, the Austrian Radio Orchestra, Miami Symphony Orchestra, Vizcaya Mozart Festival, Mid-Columbia Symphony (Washington), the Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Santa Fe Symphony, and the Santa Fe Concert Association Orchestra.
As a concert pianist he won first prize in the Mid-Somerset Festival in Bath, England and he is active both as a piano soloist and in chamber music both in Europe and in the United States.
He served as the Artistic Director of Voices of Change, the new music ensemble of Dallas, for three years. The company received great critical acclaim during his tenure. He was also the Artistic and Musical Director of the Dallas-based art song recital group, Voces Intimae.
As a composer, he is the recipient of the Van Someren Award for composition of a song cycle. His monodrama EMMA was performed on public television and excerpts from his one-act comedy GUNPOINT have been performed with orchestra in New Mexico, New York and Washington. His symphonic works have been performed in New York, Washington and Santa Fe. His ULYSSES was premiered in Italy, and his TRIO IN B MINOR for piano, violin and ‘cello was premiered in Dallas. Last season his premieres GENETIC LOVE and TRANSCENDENCE were well-received, as was his FANTASY FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO. He is currently at work on a full-length opera with a libretto by Andrea Fellows Walters entitled OF LOVE AND ALCHEMY, and has been commissioned to write an opera for the Santa Fe Opera to be performed in Spring of 2016.
He is a strong advocate of outreach, and his lectures and informal talks on classical music, composing and opera have proven to be extremely popular. He has given hundreds of live presentations to audiences around the United States and in Europe as well as numerous radio programs and television broadcasts on classical and symphonic music.
Productions
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Artist Information
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