CHRISTOPHER KOELZER
Selected Performances
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LEHAR - THE MERRY WIDOW
16-18 March 2023
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe)
Music by Franz Lehar, Libretto by Viktor Léon and Victor Stein
Assistant Musical Director & Choral Preparation - Christopher Koelzer
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts Operetta Workshop
New York City, NY
WE ARE HERE - SONGS FROM THE HOLOCAUST
26 January 2023, 7PM
“We Are Here” is a concert of songs written in the ghettos and concentration camps of occupied-Europe. Conceived by Ira Antelis and hosted by Rabbi Charles Savenor, the concert will honor the memory of all those who were murdered, and highlight the artists and writers who, in the worst of times, continued to create. With music direction by Lee Musiker plus performances and readings from pop artists, broadway stars, and cantors, this powerful commemorative concert will include a candle-lighting ceremony and memorial prayers. Performers include Harvey Fierstein, Chita Rivera, and Shoshana Bean.
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts Senior Chorus
Christopher Koelzer, pianist
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York City
THE DORIS DEAR 2022 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
16-17 December 2022, 7PM
Doris Dear's 2022 Christmas Special, filmed for Broadway On Demand, chronicles "Christmas Through the Decades", joined by a variety of Broadway talent, including Aaron Lee Battle, Eve Eaton, Meg Flather, Emily Kate Gentile, Crystal Kellogg, Karen Mack, Jana Robbins, and Wendy Russell, directed by Lina Koutrakos, with the Blake Allen Orchestra.
Christopher Koelzer, Piano / Conductor
Triad Theater, New York City, NY
THE HOLIDAY MUSIC OF ERIC WHITACRE
29 November 2022, 7PM
DCINY and singers from around the world for an evening with one of today’s most celebrated choral composers. Eric Whitacre leads the choir through a program of his most popular holiday works, including “The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus” and the World Premiere of “The Gift of the Magi”.
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts Senior Chorus
Christopher Koelzer, Senior Chorus Pianist
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
HOMETOWN TO THE WORLD
5 November 2022, 8PM
Hometown to the World, New York Premiere
Music by Laura Kaminsky, Libretto by Kimberly Reed
Kaminsky/Hall's chamber opera Hometown to the World tells of the largest workplace ICE raid in US history that took place in Postville, IA in 2008.
Musical Preparation & Choral Director - Christopher Koelzer
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts, with Repertory Company High School for Theater Arts
Premiered at The Town Hall, New York City, NY
DAVID GEFFEN HALL OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND
30 October 2022
David Geffen Hall Open House Weekend Performances
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts Show Choir
Christopher Koelzer, pianist
Lincoln Center, New York City, NY
CONVERSION EAST COAST PREMIERE
17 November 2022
CONVERSION - the documentary film by filmmaker Zach Meiners. “Conversion“takes us on the cinematic and personal journeys of 4 survivors from the US and Canada, as they move through the mental and physical harms of conversion therapy, and find the hope and strength to fight against it.
Filmscore Pianist Christopher Koelzer
Original Score by Blake Allen
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation Robin William's Center
New York City, NY
MDLO LEON FLEISHER MEMORIAL CONCERT
Memorial Concert for Pianist Leon Fleisher
Fauré's Réquiem, Organist, MDLO Orchestra
Strathmore Music Hall
Dekelboum Concert Hall, University of Maryland, College Park
2 August 2022, 7:30PM
MANHATTAN CONCERT PRODUCTIONS
26 June 2022
Dan Forrest - Requiem for the Living
Organist
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
Gilbert & Sullivan -THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
Pianist and Vocal Coach
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts Operetta Workshop
New York City, NY
1-3 April 2022
MARYLAND LYRIC OPERA
25-27 February 2022
Celesta/Organist, MDLO Orchestra
Strathmore Music Hall
Bethesda, MD
FALSTAFF
21-27 August 2021
Music by Giuseppe Verdi / Libretto by Arrigo Boito, adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Associate Coach & Rehearsal pianist, Berkshire Opera Festival
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL VIRTUAL CONCERT
28 August 2020, 7:30PM
A virtual concert hosted by BOF Co-founders Brian Garman and Jonathon Loy, featuring:
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Bass-baritone André Courville
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Bass Erik Anstine
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Soprano Laura Wilde
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Tenor Joshua Blue
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Soprano Joanna Latini
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Bass-baritone John Cheek
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Soprano Natalia Santaliz
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Baritone Brian James Myer
with Christopher Koelzer, piano.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SINGING 56TH CONFERENCE (VIRTUAL)
Accompanying NATSAA Competition Winner Matthew Hill, tenor in recital. Including songs by Maude Valerie White, Richard Strauss, Charles Ives, Francis Poulenc, and Benjamin Britten.
25 June 2020, 6PM
THAÏS
30 January-1 February, 2020
Music by Jules Massenet / Libretto by Louis Gallet, based on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France
Assistant Conductor, Maryland Lyric Opera
Kay Theater, The Clarice at University of Maryland, College Park, MD
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RECITAL
8 December 2019, 5PM
CAPTURING SOUND: THE METHODS OF ARRANGING AND TRANSCRIBING INSTRUMENTAL SOUNDS FROM ORCHESTRA TO PIANO
In the second of three Doctoral Dissertation Recitals presented by Christopher Koelzer in partial fulfillment of the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano degree, collaborative pianists Christopher Koelzer and Alexei Ulitin perform Johannes Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn (1873), and Sergei Rachmaninoff's two-piano arrangement of his Symphonic Dances (1942).
Gildenhorn Recital Hall, The Clarice at University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Free admission
UMD CHAMBER SINGERS AND ALUMNI CHOIR
7 November 2019, 7:30PM
Hosted by the School of Music, this 8th biennial conference features the very best college and university choirs chosen by audition from around the country.
Performing Stravinsky's Les noces
Dekelboum Concert Hall, University of Maryland, College Park
MDLO INSTITUTE
IN CONCERT
1 November 2019, 7:30PM
Selections from Beethoven's Fidelio, Gounod's Faust, Verdi's Falstaff, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Bizet's Carmen, and Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier
Assistant Conductor, Maryland Lyric Opera
The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD
IL TABARRO & CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
IN CONCERT
14-15 September 2019
Il tabarro from Puccini's Il trittico - Music by Giacomo Puccini / Libretto by Giuseppe Adami
Cavalleria rusticana - Music by Pietro Mascagni / Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga
Assistant Conductor, Maryland Lyric Opera
The Music Center at Strathmore, Bethesda, MD
MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM
May-August 2019
Apprentice Coach and Pianist
Merola Opera Program 2019
Schwabacher Summer Scenes
World Premiere of Jake Heggie's If I Were You
RECITAL AT THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
11 April 2019, 6:30PM
Washington National Opera Young Artists respond to works in Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island). Including works by Ravel, Musto, Schubert, Montsalvatge, Chabrier, and Traditional Spirituals.
Pianist with fellow DCYAP Artists Eliza Bonet, Joshua Blue, Joshua Conyers, and Arnold Livingston Geis.
SMITHSONIAN RENWICK GALLERY
10 February 2019, 2PM
Princesses, Puccini and Pappataci - Scenes from the Great Italian Operas
Pianist, Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists
Free admission
RECORDING PROJECT WITH BLAKE ALLEN
Recording works of composer Blake Allen, including violin sonata "L'abîme" with violinist Emily Uematsu, and cello sonata "Music for Kelly" with cellist Susan D. Mandel.
New York City.
February 2019
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ITALIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
31 January 2019, 6PM
Il Bel Canto: Scenes and Arias from the Great Italian Operas
Gaston Hall, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Pianist, Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists
IN HER WORDS
VOCAL RECITAL WITH SOPRANO MADISON LEONARD
26 January 2019, 8PM
Spanning the last six centuries through song and spoken word, Madison Leonard shares the words of Maya Angelou, Rupi Kaur and Mary, Queen of Scots alongside pianist Christopher Koelzer. The duo offers an expansive program ranging from Robert Schumann to Lori Laitman, featuring exclusively the poetry of female writers.
The Leroy and Lois Peters Music Center’s James T. Bingham Rehearsal Hall at Washington Adventist University, Takoma Park, MD
AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE
October 2018 - January 2019
Three world premiere short operas will be staged in a concert performance, accompanied by a small chamber orchestra and followed by a Q&A with the artists and creative team. This season's distinguished mentors include composer Jake Heggie, composer and librettist Gene Scheer, and conductor Steven Osgood.
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Music by Molly Joyce / Libretto by James Kennedy
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
Pianist, Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists
COSMOS CLUB WARNE BALLROOM CONCERT
19 December 2018, 8PM
Three Hundred and Sixty-Third Warne Ballroom Concert
Concert of Selected Art Songs and Opera Arias and Duets with
Raquel González, Soprano
Hunter Enoch, baritone
The Cosmos Club, Washington D.C.
THE LION, THE UNICORN, AND ME
14-16 December 2018
Music by Jeanine Tesori / Libretto by J.D. McClatchy, based on the book by Jeanette Winterson
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
Assistant Conductor, Washington National Opera
THE GRACE CHURCH CONCERT SERIES
11 November 2018, 5PM
Collection of Art Songs, Arias and Scenes Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Armistace of World War I
Grace Episcopal Church, The Plains, VA
Pianist, Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists
WNO SILENT NIGHT PREVIEW
8 November 2018, 6PM
In commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the armistice of World War I, this special program, designed and narrated by musicologist and historian Patrick Warfield, explores the subject matter of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Silent Night.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
Pianist, Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists
Free admission
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RECITAL
31 October 2018, 8PM
CAPTURING SOUND: THE METHODS OF ARRANGING AND TRANSCRIBING INSTRUMENTAL SOUNDS FROM ORCHESTRA TO PIANO
In the first of three Doctoral Dissertation Recitals presented by Christopher Koelzer in partial fulfillment of the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano degree, collaborative pianists Christopher Koelzer and Nadezda Mijatovic-Sekicki perform Igor Stravinsky's own four-hand piano arrangement Le sacre du printemps (1913), and Maurice Ravel's two-piano arrangement of Claude Debussy's Nuages (1903).
Gildenhorn Recital Hall, The Clarice at University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Free admission
LA TRAVIATA
6-20 October 2018
Music by Giuseppe Verdi / Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, from the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas
Opera House, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
Assistant Conductor, Washington National Opera
RIGOLETTO
3 August 2018, 8:15PM
Music by Giuseppe Verdi / Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse
Filene Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Vienna, VA
Musical Preparation, Coaching Fellow, Subtitle Coordinator, Wolf Trap Opera
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
23-24 June 2018
Music by Kurt Weill / Libretto by Bertold Brecht
Dock 5 at Union Market, 1309 5th St NE, Washington DC 20002
Pianist, Musical Preparation, Coaching Fellow, Wolf Trap Opera
In collaboration with Hong Kong Ballet and Terra Firma Dance Company