Faculty

Cris Frisco is a collaborative musician equally at home in the worlds of classical and popular music. In recent seasons, he has been conductor or pianist for productions and workshops on Broadway, at the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Town Hall, Santa Fe Opera, McCarter Theatre Center, Walnut Street Theater, Opera Birmingham, Opera Memphis, Kentucky Opera, Opera Fayetteville, The Princeton Festival, The Theatre Outlet, Passage Theater, and the Bucks County Playhouse.  From 2021-2023 he was the Director of Music and Director of the Handorf Company Artist Program at Opera Memphis.  Currently in development, he is the music director for Anatomiae Occultii’s contemporary dance production of Sweeney Todd.  A committed educator for the next generation of artists, he has served on the faculty of Mannes School of Music, Westminster Choir College, Rutgers University, City University of New York, the New School for Drama, the Castleton Festival, the Mostly Modern Festival, Finger Lakes Opera, Queens Summer Vocal Institute, and Westminster’s CoOPERAtive.