Evan-Alexis Christ

About Evan-Alexis Christ

Evan-Alexis Christ was born in Los Angeles into a family of musicians with Greek roots and spent his childhood in Las Vegas. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2011, conducting Salvatore Sciarrino’s opera Macbeth with the Klangforum Vienna. He has conducted more than 60 premiere performances, as well as many of the standard repertoire works for orchestra, and has supervised more than 60 music theater productions. Evan-Alexis Christ was Music Director of the Brandenburg State Opera in Cottbus from 2008 to 2018, making him at the time one of the youngest music directors in Germany. In 2011 the orchestra won the publishers prize (Boosey and Hawkes, Peters, Breitkopf, etc.) for the best concert program of all German orchestras. In 2010 the citizens of the city of Cottbus voted Christ “Cottbuser of the Year.”

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