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Meet Our Conductor
Timothy SemanikTimothy Semanik currently serves as music director for the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra. He was previously music director for the Northern Illinois University Philharmonic and has served as guest conductor for the Chicago Youth Symphony, the Windsor Symphony, the Elmhurst Symphony, the Pacific Chorale, the Pacific Symphony Institute and Youth Orchestra, Ann Arbor Civic Theater, the Livonia Youth Philharmonic and the orchestras at both Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. Tim's operatic credits include: Rigoletto and Un Ballo in Maschera with Festival Opera; The Mikado with Light Opera Works; The Bartered Bride, Eugene Onegin, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Cosi fan tutte and La Buona Figliuola with the Northwestern University Opera Theater; The Pirates of Penzance, The Gondoliers and Utopia, Limited with the Savoyaires; Die Fledermaus and A Bayou Legend with Great Lakes Lyric Opera; Le Nozze di Figaro and Gianni Schicchi with Ann Arbor Opera; Carmen with Comic Opera Guild; Carmen, Albert Herring and The Magic Flute with Opera in the Ozarks; The Turn of the Screw and The Magic Flute with the University Of Michigan Opera Theater; Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi at California State University, Fullerton. Tim's choral experience includes two years as assistant to John Alexander at CSU Fullerton, where he conducted both the University Singers and Men's Chorus. He is currently director of choirs at Kingswood United Methodist Church in Buffalo Grove. Tim holds a masters degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan and a doctoral degree from Northwestern University in orchestral conducting. In the summer of 2003 he was accepted into the conducting class for the Tanglewood Music Center.
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