American conductor, pianist, and recitalist, Kamal Khan is Resident Conductor and Chorus Master of the Palm Beach Opera where he has conducted La Traviata, Manon Lescaut, La Bohéme, I Puritani, and Die Zauberflöte as well as the Vocal Competition Winners Concerts and gala concerts including the Bryn Terfel and Friends Benefit Gala in 2004. Other performances this season include Tosca in La Coruña Festival in Spain, Nabucco and Die Zauberflöte in Cape Town and concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oviedo. Upcoming engagements include La Sonnambula at the La Coruña Festival, Le Nozze di Figaro in Cape Town, and Carmen at the Teatro de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

A regular guest conductor around the world, Kamal Khan has performed at Dallas Opera, Baltimore Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janiero, Teatro Municipal in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Teatro de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Oper der Stadt Bonn and Mecklenburgischen Staatstheaters Schwerin in Germany, the Opera de Santander, Mérida, La Coruña and Málaga in Spain, and the Macau International Music Festival, among others. He has also conducted the Jerusalem Symphony, the Sao Paulo Philharmonic, the Bejing Symphony, the Shanghai Symphony, the Cape Town Philharmonic, the Belearic Islands Philharmonic, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oviedo, the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

As a recitalist, Kamal Khan has collaborated with many singers and appeared on many stages in the US, Europe and Japan including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Weill Recital Hall in New York, Suntory Hall and Cassals Hall in Tokyo, the Gran Teatro Liceu and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona and the Palau de Congressos in Andorra.

Kamal Khan was assistant to James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera from 1988-1997 as well as Assistant Conductor and Cover Conductor where he worked with many of the important singers and conductors of our time. He has been Resident Conductor of the Opera Festival in Tenerife and is Main Guest Conductor of the Cape Town Opera in South Africa.

A native of Washington DC, Kamal Khan has received prizes and grants from the National Foundation for the Advancements of the Arts, the National Association of Music Teachers, and the National Symphony Orchestra.

Kamal Khan has taught at the European Center for Opera and Vocal Arts, IVAI in Tel-Aviv, and the Manhattan School of Music. He joins the faculty of Mannes College of Music for the 2006/2007 school year.

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