Christopher James Hisey, Music Director and Conductor
Music
Director/Conductor Christopher James Hisey has conducted throughout the
United States and Europe. He has appeared with the Ruse Philharmonic,
and the Plevin Philharmonic in Bulgaria as well as the St. Petersburg
"Klassika" Symphony, formerly the Leningrad State Philharmonic
Orchestra, in Russia.
In addition to his duties with the Civic Orchestra, Mr. Hisey is the Music
Director and co-founder of the American Chamber Orchestra, a group he
established with Carl Serbell. The Orchestra's mission is to bring high
quality music to the people of the community, as well as promote local
artists through featuring them as soloists or premiering their work. In
the summer of 2005, the Orchestra traveled to Europe and gave concerts
in Vienna, Salzburg and Prague. The group toured Italy in the summer of
2007, performing concerts in Padua, Florence and Milan and is currently
planning a tour of Scotland for this coming summer.
Mr. Hisey
also serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Connecticut Valley
Chamber Orchestra. The CVCO is an ensemble that draws serious amateur
musicians from all areas of Northern Connecticut and southern Massachusetts.
Highlights from the season include the Dvorak Cello concerto featuring
Kangho Lee, Professor of Cello at UCONN.
This his 6th season as Music Director of the Troupers Light Opera Company,
Mr. Hisey will be conducting 6 performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's
"Trial by Jury" and "HMS Pinafore". Mr. Hisey appeared
with the Company at Cami Hall in New York City and performed excerpts
from The Sorcerer for the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Society. It was
written of this performance "…you will likely not have seen
a better Sorcerer."
A respected and sought after music educator Mr. Hisey's most recent appointment
is as Music Director of Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras and conductor
of their Principal Orchestra. The Youth Orchestras program consists of
four orchestras and more than 250 young musicians ranging in ages from
4th grade to seniors in high school.
Mr. Hisey also serves of the String Faculties of Greens Farms Academy,
and the Westport School of Music.
