Tara Simoncic

Biography Highlights

the New York City Ballet, Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center - The Four Temperaments, Ballo della Regina, Midsummer Night’s Dream; New York City Ballet Kennedy Center - Jewels ; with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México Palacio de Bellas Artes Borodin Overture to Prince Igor, Copland Billy the Kid Suite and Dvorak Symphony no. 7; Orquestra Jovem do Estado, Copland Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo, Bizet Symphonie Fantastique; the project with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center ; the Nutcracker with the Rochester City Ballet.

First woman to conduct for the world-renowned American Ballet Theatre where she conducted the Don Quixote and Giselle; The Nutcracker with the New York City Ballet; the world premiere of Standard Deviation at Lincoln Center; Giselle, La Sylphide with the Atlanta Ballet; Camino Real, Sum Stravinsky, Catch set to Philip Glass’s iconic Violin Concerto No. 1, and 7 for Eight, a ballet by San Francisco Ballet’s Artistic Director, Helgi Tomasson; the Don Quixote and The Nutcracker with San Francisco Ballet; new production of Kentucky Volume 1 and Project Faust as Music Director of the Louisville Ballet in a joint production with the Louisville Opera; conductor of the Flexible Orchestra; Music Director of Ballet West, the Greenwich Symphony’s Young People’s Concerts and the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra; assistant Conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony and the Knoxville Symphony; Tara has conducted the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Rioult Dance Theatre, the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Cincinnati Ballet, the Portland Symphony, Bridge Musik Chamber Orchestra, and Camerata Nova at The Manhattan School of Music; Don Giovanni at the Piccolo Festival del Friuli Venezia Giulia; Swan Lake and The Barber of Seville with the Slovenian National Opera Ballet Theatre in Maribor; Le Corsaire, La Sylphide and Onegin with Teatro Colón’s Ballet Estable; Apollo, Peter Martin’s Barber Violin Concerto, Justin Peck’s Heatscape and La Sylphide with the Compañia Nacional de Danza in Madrid. 

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