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The American conductor, choral conductor, organist and harpsichordist, Avi Stein, obtained his Bachelor of Music degreee degree from the Eastman School of Music (1997), and his Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California (2000) and was a Fulbright scholar in Toulouse, France. He finished his doctoral studies in organ and harpsichord at Indiana University.
Avi Stein taught harpsichord, vocal repertoire and chamber music at Yale University and was the music director at St. Matthew & St. Timothy Episcopal Church in New York. Currently he is the organist and chorus master of Choir of Trinity Wall Street (since May 2014) and on faculty at the Juilliard School where he teaches continuo accompaniment, vocal repertoire and chamber music. The New York Times described him as “a brilliant organ soloist” in his Carnegie Hall debut.
Avi Stein Avi has performed throughout the USA, in Europe, Canada, and Central America. He is an active continuo accompanist who has played with many ensembles such as the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Baroque Orchestras of Los Angeles, Seattle and Indianapolis and the Warsaw, Toulouse and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras as well as his own chamber group X579. Currently he is the artistic director of the Helicon Foundation and has directed the International Baroque Academy of Musiktheater Bavaria, and the young artists’ program at the Carmel Bach Festival. He has conducted a variety of ensembles including Tafelmusik, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Opera Français de New York, OperaOmnia company in a production of Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea and series called the 4x4 Festival: four programs in four days of 17th century music from four countries, using many of New York’s finest Baroque musicians. He conducted Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Juilliard in a production that toured in London’s Holland Park and at the Royal Opera House at the Palace of Versailles. His most recent production at Juilliard, Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, was named one of the best performances of 2021 by The New York Times.
Avi Stein performed on the 2015 Grammy Award-winning recording for best opera by the Boston Early Music Festival. |
