Karina Canellakis

Karina Canellakis (born 1981[1]) is an American conductor and violinist.

Born in New York City, of Greek and Russian background,[2] Canellakis grew up in a family of musicians. Her parents met as music students at the Juilliard School. Her father Martin became a conductor,[2] and her mother Sheryl became a pianist.[3] She studied violin as a youth, and her younger brother Nicholas studied cello.[4] She continued formal music studies at the Curtis Institute, where her teachers included Ida Kavafian, and graduated from Curtis in 2004.[5][6] As a violinist, she played as a section member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and was a guest leader with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.[7]

From 2005 to 2007, Canellakis was a violinist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchester-Akademie. Whilst in Berlin, Simon Rattle encouraged her growing interest in conducting. She formally studied conducting at the Juilliard School from 2011 to 2013, where her mentors included Alan Gilbert and Fabio Luisi.[5] In 2013, she was the winner of the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship.[8] From 2014 to 2016, she was the assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Early in her career in the Dallas post, in October 2014, she stood in as an emergency substitute for Jaap van Zweden with the Symphony No 8 of Shostakovich, without rehearsal.[1] Her work in contemporary music has included both performing with and conducting the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE),[9] and conducting the premiere of David Lang's chamber opera The Loser in September 2016.[10]

Canellakis made her European conducting debut in 2015 with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, as an emergency substitute for Nikolaus Harnoncourt.[11] In 2016, she was the winner of the Georg Solti Conducting Award.[6] Her conducting debut at The Proms was in September 2017, which was also her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.[12]

In March 2018, Canellakis first guest-conducted the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (RFO).[13] On the basis of this appearance, in May 2018, the RFO announced the appointment of Canellakis as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2019-2020 season, with an initial contract of 4 years.[14] This appointment marks Canellakis' first orchestral post. She is the first female conductor to be named chief conductor of the RFO, and the first female conductor to be named chief conductor of any Dutch orchestra.[14]

References

  1. 1 2 Michael Cooper (2018-05-09). "After a Last-Minute Conducting Triumph, Her Own Orchestra". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  2. 1 2 Robert Sherman (1982-03-28). "Music: Look At New Baton Of The Symphony". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  3. ↑ Bill Glauber (2017-11-09). "Rising star Karina Canellakis to conduct a Milwaukee Symphony searching for music director". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  4. ↑ Tod Westlake (2017-01-26). "Symphonic Siblings Play with the Albany Symphony". Hudson Valley Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  5. 1 2 Diana Burgwyn (Fall 2016). "Conducting Energy" (PDF). Overtones. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  6. 1 2 Toby Deller (2017-02-15). "Meet the Maestro: Karina Canellakis". Classical Music Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  7. ↑ Geraldine Freeman (2017-02-15). "Canellakis will be ASO guest conductor". The Daily Gazette. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  8. ↑ Zachary Woolfe (2013-12-20). "Missing from Podiums: Women". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  9. ↑ Mark Swed (2015-01-26). "Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  10. ↑ Anthony Tommasini (2016-09-09). "Review: In This One-Man Opera, It's All in His Head". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  11. ↑ Gabriela Kägi (2015-08-23). "Are you kidding? – Eine junge Dirigentin vertritt Harnoncourt". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  12. ↑ Andrew Clements (2017-09-06). "BBCSO/Canellakis review – Mazzoli and Denk find their messages blurred". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  13. ↑ Frits van der Waa (2018-03-18). "De Amerikaanse Karina Canellakis laat zien en horen dat ze haar mannetje staat als dirigent". De Volksrant. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  14. 1 2 "Karina Canellakis new Chief Conductor Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra" (Press release). Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
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