Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra

CYNTHIA KATSARELIS is Music Director and Conductor of PMC, and is also Music Director and Conductor of the Youth Orchestra of the Rockies in Fort Collins, Colorado. She has conducted excellent professional, conservatory, youth and training orchestras. As Conducting Assistant with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops, Ms Katsarelis worked with top conductors and guest artists, assisted with recordings for Telarc Records, and worked with James Conlon and the Cincinnati May Festival. Her professional activities include conducting the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the symphonies of Knoxville, Kansas City, Spokane, Flint, Georgetown and the Columbus Women’s Orchestra.  She made her international debut leading the Bourgas Philharmonic in Bourgas, Bulgaria. Ms. Katsarelis has served as music director of the Seven Hills Sinfonietta, Antioch Chamber Orchestra, Northern Kentucky Chamber Players, Dearborn Summer Music Festival and Hillman Opera. Critical reviews have praised her work as “a model of precision and spirit.”

A pioneer for professional women conductors, Ms. Katsarelis served as Associate Conductor with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (North Carolina) and Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra. There, she was a dynamic force for education, creating and conducting dynamic Young Peoples' Concerts, as well as implementing innovative musical programs for economically challenged children, public school students, and gifted young musicians. Ms. Katsarelis charmed audiences in her appearances leading the Greensboro Symphony Pops and the Greensboro Ballet’s production of the Nutcracker and their parody “the Cracked Nut.”

In Colorado , Ms. Katsarelis was recently invited to assist the Colorado Music Festival by conducting the offstage brass in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection.” For the past two summers, she has conducted the Young Artist Seminar at Rocky Ridge Music Center. She has also conducted clinics and sectionals at numerous Colorado high schools, including Fairview in Boulder , Thompson Valley in Loveland and Rocky Mountain high school in Fort Collins . In February of 2006, Ms. Katsarelis guest conducted the University of Nebraska (Omaha) Honors Orchestra.

Ms. Katsarelis’ commitment to working with young musicians took her to Haiti in the Spring of 2004 to guest conduct the Haiti Philharmonic and youth orchestras at the Holy Trinity School of Music in Port-au-Prince, as part of the Colorado Haiti Project.