Artistic Director
Doris Lang Kosloff, a native of Brooklyn, New York, has held many prominent positions in the field of opera. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Queens College (The Aaron Copland School of Music) of the City University of New York, and holds a Master of Music degree from the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, and was graduated first in her class.
In November, 2005, Doris Lang Kosloff was appointed ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of Connecticut Concert Opera. She has served as the Executive Director of the Hartford Camerata Conservatory (the nation's oldest community music school), the Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Connecticut Opera and the Waterbury Opera
Theatre.
Since 2004, she has been a music coach on the faculty of the Hartt School, University of Hartford, where she now also serves as the Music Director of the Hartt Opera Theater.
From 1982-2005 she was a Professor of Music and the Director of the Opera Studio at the Aaron Copland School of Music. Ms. Kosloff's active guest conducting career includes guest appearances with the Syracuse Opera, Orlando Opera, Hartford Ballet, Southern Ballet Theatre, and Opera Columbus. Within the past year she has had her conducting debut with Treasure Coast Opera in Fort Pierce, Florida and Miami Lyric Opera in Miami Beach, Florida.
A frequent speaker and workshop director, Ms. Kosloff wrote the libretto for the critically acclaimed children's opera GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS, which was created under a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her article, "The Woman Opera Conductor; Personal Perspective," was published in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, Volume I (Greenwood Press).
Ms. Kosloff is the conductor of two contemporary chamber orchestra works on a compact disk released in the winter of 1995 (Arabesque Recording). She was Music Director and Conductor for the world premiere of THE VILLAGE (an opera based on factual events of the Holocaust) which premiered in March of 1995 in New York. She was the 1994 recipient of the Choral Society Silver Jubilee Award, awarded to "a distinguished graduate" of the Queens College music program. She recorded a symphonic disk with the Czech Radio Philharmonic, released in 2000.