B.M. Ithaca College
M.M. New England Conservatory

Brian DeMaris has served as Associate Conductor for New York City Opera, Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master for Florida Grand Opera, Assistant Conductor for Glimmerglass Opera, and Resident Conductor of the Ash Lawn Opera Festival in Virginia.  He has appeared with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and is presently Artistic Director of the New York based Alpha Omega Ensemble and Conductor of Music Saint Croix in Minneapolis. He also currently serves as Resident Conductor for The American Lyric Theater, has worked for Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Lancaster Opera Company, Emmanuel Music, Actor’s Company of Pennsylvania, and The American Music Theater, and has taught at Lawrence University, New England Conservatory School of Continuing Education, George Mason University's International Opera Alliance, and the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv.  He is the Director of Opera and Musical Theater at Ithaca College and serves on the music staff at Opera Theater of St. Louis and the Gerdine Young Artist Program.

DeMaris has performed at Boston’s Jordan Hall and New York’s Studio 54, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Alice Tully Hall, Skirball Center, and La Maison francaise, and in recitals, competitions, and master classes throughout the United States and abroad.

A frequent performer and advocate of contemporary music, he has worked closely with composers Stefan Weismann, Lee Hoiby, John Harbison, Mark Adamo, John Corigliano, Peter Ash, and Richard Rodney Bennett. He conducted the Middle Eastern premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the world premiere of Weisman's Darkling with American Opera Projects at the Classical Stage Company with additional performances in Gniezno, Poland, at Frei Universität in Berlin, Germany and at the New York City Opera VOX Festival.  He was also involved with the professional American premieres of Richard Rodney Bennett’ s Mines of Sulphur at Glimmerglass Opera, which was broadcast on NPR and BBC, released on the Chandos label, and nominated for a Grammy Award, and John Corigliano's revised version of "Ghosts of Versailles" at Opera Theater of Saint Louis. He also serves as Resident Conductor of American Lyric Theater in New York, through which he has done several workshops of new works including The Golden Ticket at Jazz at Lincoln Center and Adam and Eve at Symphony Space. Mr. DeMaris is also a composer himself: his artsongs have been performed at Glimmerglass Opera, Central City Opera, Ash Lawn Opera Festival, and in recitals throughout the United States.