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Chris McCracken

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Principal Guest Conductor at State Opera Stara Zagora, Chris has conducted: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Weimar, Hagen Philharmonic, Jena Philharmonic, Theatre Cottbus opera orchestra, Scottish Opera orchestra, London Sinfonietta, State Hermitage Orchestra St Petersburg, Rousse Philharmonic, Pazhardjik Philharmonic (Bulgaria), State Opera Burgas orchestra and Cuenca Symphony Orchestra (Ecuador).
He has conducted and coached some 40 operas and operettas and worked as a répétiteur at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
In July 2017 he won first prize in the 7th edition of the Blue Danube International Opera Conducting Competition in Rousse, Bulgaria.
He will conduct his debut concert with Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in July 2018, conduct Don Giovanni at the National Theatre Belgrade in March 2019 and conduct Un Ballo in Maschera at the National Silesian-Moravian Theatre, Ostrava, in December 2019.
Other engagements include: conductor on Don Carlos in the new opera house in San Juan, Argentina: a co-production with Teatro Colón under stage direction of Eugenio Zanetti (April 2018), and conductor of a new production of La Traviata at a lakeside festival in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (June 2018).
Chris studied piano and violin at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester, has an MA in Music from Trinity College Cambridge and an LRAM in piano performance from the Royal Academy of Music.
He studied repertoire, voice and language coaching at the National Opera Studio, is fluent in German and has a working knowledge of Italian and French. His first position was as Korrepetitor mit Dirigierverpflichtung at Theater Hagen, Germany, after which he has worked principally as guest conductor, pianist and coach.
Conducting mentors have been Rolf Reuter (Komische Oper Berlin) Emmanuel Siffert (Switzerland/Buenos Aires) and Mihaela Silvia Rosca (Timisoara).

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