Kamensek, Karen

(Chicago, Illinois)

2024–25 Season: Conductor, Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah

Recent and Upcoming: Tosca (London's Royal Opera Covent Garden); Glass’ Akhnaten (English National Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Glass' Satyagraha (ENO); Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking (Welsh National Opera); Bernstein's Candide (WNO); Die Zauberflöte (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ Dracula (Royal Swedish Opera); Bernstein's Wonderful Town (Norwegian Opera & Ballet); David Bruce's The Peacock Pavane (London Philharmonic Orchestra); Adam Schoenberg's Cool Cat (Los Angeles Philharmonic); Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 (Seattle Symphony); John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Marsalis' Violin Concerto in D Major (Sydney Symphony); Philip Glass’ Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra, Camille Pepin’s Vajrayana and Schumann’s Second Symphony (Kuopio Symphony Orchestra); Glass’ Itaipu and William Waltons’ First Symphony (Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria); Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis and  Respighi’s The Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome (Orquesta Sinfónica RTVE); Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto (Colorado Symphony); Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour, Glière’s Concerto for harp and orchestra in E flat major Op. 74 and Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony (Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier); Weber’s Bassoon Concerto and Walton's First Symphony (Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra)