Myron Michailidis

Myron Michailidis (Greek: Μύρων Μιχαηλίδης;) is a Greek conductor, since 2011 Artistic Director of the Greek National Opera. During 2004/11 he was as General Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (TSSO) while from 1999 to 2004 he was Permanent Conductor at the Opera of Eastern Saxony in Germany.

Michailidis was born in Crete. He studied piano with Dimitris Toufexis in Athens. He continued his musical studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he studied conducting with Hans-Martin Rabenstein.

Michailidis has conducted the Berlin, Rome, Mexico and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestras, George Enescu (Bucharest) and Slovak Philharmonic (Bratislava) Orchestras, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, as well as all Greek symphony orchestras and the orchestra of the Greek National Opera. He has collaborated with leading artists, including Aldo Ciccolini, Paul Badura-Skoda, Salvatore Accardo, Cyprien Katsaris, Ιvo Pogorelich, Lars Vogt, Shlomo Mintz, Misha Maisky, Vadim Repin, Martinos Tirimos, June Anderson, Cheryl Studer, Paata Burchuladze and Fazil Say.

His repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music and includes symphonic as well as choral works alongside operas. He is a great proponent of the music of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff as well as the operas of Verdi, Puccini and Gounod. While with the TSSO, Michailidis led concerts at various festivals in Greece and abroad. In December 2007, during the celebration events of the Cultural Year of Greece in China, he took the Orchestra on tour in Beijing, China, host of the 2008 Olympic Games.

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