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

Brian DeMaris has served as Associate Conductor at New York City Opera, Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master at Florida Grand Opera, Assistant Conductor at Glimmerglass Opera, and Resident Conductor of the Ash Lawn Opera Festival in Virginia.  He is presently Artistic Director of the New York based Alpha Omega Ensemble and Guest Conductor of Music Saint Croix in Minneapolis. He also currently serves as Resident Conductor for The American Lyric Theater, has worked for 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 has performed at Boston’s Jordan Hall and New York’s Studio 54, Symphony Space, Alice Tully Hall, Skirball Center, and La Maison francaise, as well as several recitals and competitions at churches, colleges and universities throughout the U.S.  Principal teachers include Veronica Jochum, Read Gainsford, Xun Pan, John Greer, and John Moriarty.  Other teachers from festivals and masterclasses include Theodore Letvin, John Perry, Angela Hewitt, Jean David Coen, Jacob Latteiner, Mark Sullivan, Martin Katz, Pierre Valet, Rita Sloan, Leonard Hokansen, David Finkel and Wu Han. He has played for private lessons and masterclasses of such solo artists as Ruth Falcon, Deborah Voigt, Carole Vanness, Marilyn Horne, Virginia Zeanni, Evelyn Lear, Thomas Stewart, Diana Soviero, Ruth Golden, Vincent Cole, Benita Valente, and Katherine Malfitano, and worked closely with such conductors such as Richard Bonynge, Stewart Robertson, Bernard Labadie, Craig Smith, Alberto Veronesi, Gary Thor Wedow, and Benjamin Zander.

A frequent performer and advocate of contemporary music, he has worked closely with composers Stefan Weismann, Lee Hoiby, John Heiss, John Harbison, Mark Adamo, and Richard Rodney Bennett. He conducted the Middle Eastern premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women, 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 premiere 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 in 2006. He also serves as Resident Conductor of American Lyric Theater in New York, through which he musically directed several workshops of new works including The Golden Ticket at Roundabout Theater studios and Adam and Eve at Symphony Space. Mr. DeMaris is also a composer himself. His musical The Portrait of Dorian Gray was premiered in a workshop at the Ephrata Playhouse in the Park in Ephrata, Pennsylvania and his artsongs have been performed at Central City Opera, Ash Lawn Opera Festival, and in recitals throughout the United States.