Zoe Zeniodi

Greek conductor and pianist Zoe Zeniodi, a conductor from Greece, is the first woman conductor to ever perform in Opera Southwest. She has been selected by the Dallas Opera for the residency of the Institute of Women Conductors, 2016. She is the Artistic & Music Director of the Broward Symphony Orchestra (Florida, USA) and the "Momentum" Athens Chamber Orchestra (Athens, Greece), the Associate Music Director & Conductor of the Festival of the Aegean (Syros, Greece) and the Artistic Advisor of the Alhambra Orchestra (Florida, USA). Zeniodi has conducted opera and ballet productions at the Florida Grand Opera, the Greek National Opera, the Onassis Cultural Center, the Festival of the Aegean and the University of Miami. As a guest conductor, she has worked with the Brno Philharmonic, the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida, the Pan-European Philharmonia, the Palm Beach Symphony, the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Greece, the Kamerata/Armonia Atenea, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, the City of Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Youth Orchestra, the Greater Miami Youth Symphony, the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE), the ARTéfacts Ensemble and the 21st Ensemble. Zoe was born in Greece and currently lives between the USA and Europe. As a pianist, Zoe has appeared in major concerts halls in USA, Russia, England, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Croatia, Venezuela, Mauritius and Greece. She holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts and an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting (University of Miami) and Master and Bachelor Degrees in Piano Performance and Accompaniment (Royal College of Music, London & Mozarteum, Salzburg). During her studies, she won all the piano accompaniment prizes at the Royal College of Music, where she was named a Junior Fellow in 2003. During her studies, she received scholarships and grants from the Alexandros Onassis Foundation, the Friends of Music Society, the Propondis Foundation, the Royal College of Music and the University of Miami, where she was also a Teaching Assistant for 5 years. She has released three commercial recordings on the Albany Records Label to critical acclaim: Thomas Sleeper’s “Translucence” with the Brno Philharmonic and “XENIA” with the Frost Symphony Orchestra, as well as Frank Ticheli’s “An American Dream” with the Frost Symphony Orchestra. She has also released “ThivaKm102” with the ARTéfacts Ensemble (Puzzlemusik) and Thomas Sleeper’s “Through a Glass darkly” (Uroboros Music).