Ms. Canellakis is a conductor and a violinist. She played in orchestras for several years and was encouraged to explore conducting. Earlier today I watched a video of her leading a performance of the Beethoven Piano Concerto #3 by Beethoven, and I was very impressed.
Since winning the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award in 2016, Karina Canellakis has gone on to work with leading orchestras around the world, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Toronto Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Radio France, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Oslo Philharmonic, as well as the symphony orchestras of Melbourne and Sydney.
On the operatic stage, she has conducted critically acclaimed performances of Don Giovanni with the Curtis Opera Theater at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. She has also conducted Die Zauberflöte and a fully staged production of the Verdi Requiem with Opernhaus Zurich, Le nozze di Figaro with Curtis Opera Theatre, and gave the world premiere of David Lang’s opera The Loser at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2017 Karina led Peter Maxwell Davies’ final opera The Hogboon with the Luxembourg Philharmonic.
Here she is conducting the wonderful Beethoven piano concerto #3:
