| Timm Rolek |
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| American Conductor Timm Rolek is Artistic Director of
Sacramento Opera and Artistic Director and Principle Conductor of Lake
Tahoe Music Festival. 2008 marks his collaboration in the summer
with the Lake Tahoe Music Festival and the Reno Philharmonic. He will
conduct performances throughout the summer for both organizations. He
is an adudicator and active member of many musical associations
throughout the US. From 1995 until 2005 Maestro Rolek was the Music Director of the Grand Forks Symphony (ND). All of these organizations have expanded their seasons and budgets under his leadership. Formerly he served as Music Director of the Heartland Symphony (1993-1998) and as a member of the conducting staff at the Metropolitan Opera. He is a busy guest conductor on both the concert and operatic stages, having led performances with Nevada Opera, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Skylight Opera Theatre, Chatauqua Opera, Opera Delaware, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Minneapolis Civic, Napa Valley Symphony, and Glacier Symphonies, as well as the Ravinia Festival. Maestro Rolek’s repertoire ranges from Johann Strauss to Puccini, Sondheim to Musgrave. He has recorded Jerre Tanner’s The Kona Coffee Cantata with the Prague Chamber Orchestra, and Joseph Fennimore’s Eventide (both on the Albany/Troy label). He conducted the American premiere of Ernst Krenek’s Das Geheime Koenigreich and has participated in the Pierre Boulez / IRCAM composers and conductors workshop at Carnegie Hall. Twin Cities Public Television KTCA-2 has featured Maestro Rolek on their two-time Emmy Award-winning program Arts on 2, and, in conjunction with Northern Lights Public Radio, he produced a nine-part radio-program called Music In Our Century. He also served on a Lila Wallace / Reader’s Digest grant panel and Singer Workshop panel for Opera America. He has been a frequent judge for competitions including the National Council Auditions for the Metropolitan Opera. Under his tenure, the Grand Forks Symphony secured awards from ‘Meet The Composer’ and ‘Chamber Music America’. Since taking over Sacramento Opera, audiences have risen sharply, and the company has increased its number of main stage and outreach productions. After studying composition at the University of Minnesota, Maestro Rolek studied conducting with Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Neville Marriner, Klaus Tennstedt, and James Levine. 7/1/08 |