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JOHNS, KYNAN Kynan Johns
The Australian conductor Kynan Johns is currently Director
of Orchestral Activities at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is also
Associate Conductor of both the Chinese National Symphony and the Israel
Symphony, Haifa. A graduate of the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide, Kynan
Johns has studied with Kurt Masur, Eri Klas, Peter Eotvos, Ton Koopman, and
others. He made his professional début in 1997 with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra,
and has since conducted all of Australia's state symphony orchestras, and is a
regular guest conductor throughout Australia and New Zealand. He made his début
as an opera conductor in 1999, with Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia for
Opera Australia. This was followed in 2000 by The Tales of Hoffmann and Madama
Butterfly (Australia) and Peter Grimes for the New Israeli Opera. He
made his European début in 2000, conducting the Netherlands Radio Symphony at
the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He has conducted more than sixty orchestras and opera
companies throughout the world, and was recently awarded second prize in the
prestigious Dimitri Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition. He made
his Carnegie Hall début as one of eight finalists in the Maazel/Vilar
conducting competition, chosen by Lorin Maazel from more than 400 applicants worldwide.
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