Constantinos Carydis

Conductor

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In Summer 2018 Constantinos Carydis led a new production of Mozart‘s Zauberflöte with Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburger Festspiele, in January 2019 he returns for another collaboration to Oper Frankfurt for Handel’s Serse.

Other engagements in the 2018/19 season sees Constantinos Carydis work with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in concerts at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg as well as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He will lead the Bayerisches Staatsorchester’s Academy Concerts series and conduct the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Bamberger Symphoniker, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and National Orchestra of Belgium before rounding off the season by making his debut with Berliner Philharmoniker.

Previously he worked with orchestras such as Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

As an opera conductor, Constantinos Carydis has a close working relationship with Bayerische Staatsoper and Oper Frankfurt, he also led productions at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Berlin, de Nederlandse Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Opéra de Lyon and at festivals such as Edinburgh International Festival, Hellenic Festival in Athens, Enescu Festival in Bucharest and Settimane Musicali di Ascona.

Constantinos Carydis was born in Athens. He studied piano and music theory at the Athens Conservatory and completed his studies in conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. In 2011 he was awarded the Carlos Kleiber Prize by the Bayerische Staatsoper.