Evans Mirageas, Artistic Director, Cincinnati Opera
2009 Boston District Judge

Appointed by Cincinnati Opera in January, 2005, Evans Mirageas also serves as director of artistic planning for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Evans Mirageas is an independent artistic advisor to symphony orchestras, opera companies, festivals and individual classical music artists throughout the United States and Europe. His current institutional clients include The Brooklyn Philharmonic, The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, The Milwaukee Symphony, The WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne, and The Pasadena Pops. Individual clients include conductors Semyon Bychkov, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Andreas Delfs, and Sir Roger Norrington.

In addition, he is an award-winning record producer, lecturer, interviewer, presenter, and awards panelist.

From 1994 to 2000 Evans Mirageas was Senior Vice President of Artists and Repertoire for the Decca Record Company Ltd. during which time he signed Renée Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Andreas Scholl and Matthias Goerne to exclusive contracts. He also supervised the recording activities of Luciano Pavarotti, Cecilia Bartoli, Sir Georg Solti, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Radu Lupu, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet among numerous others.

From 1989 to 1994 he was Artistic Administrator of The Boston Symphony, working with Seiji Ozawa to plan the winter subscription season in Symphony Hall, the summer festival concerts at Tanglewood, tours and recordings.

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