CHRISTOPHER KOELZER
Upcoming Performances
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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:
Bass-baritone André Courville
Bass Erik Anstine
Soprano Laura Wilde
Tenor Joshua Blue
Soprano Joanna Latini
Bass-baritone John Cheek
Soprano Natalia Santaliz
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
CHRISTOPHER KOELZER
Previous Events
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