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Kamal Khan is an American conductor, pianist and professor based in Washington, D.C.. He is the former Director of the Opera School at the University of Cape Town. Khan has worked as the conductor and chorus master at several professional opera companies including Palm Beach Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Baltimore Opera Company and New York City Opera. Ndiphilela Ukucula: I Live to Sing, a PBS documentary directed by Julie Cohen and based on Khan's work in South Africa was awarded with the New York Emmy Awards in 2014. His repertoire includes Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Norma, I Puritani and many others.

Biography
After graduating from Manhattan School of Music in 1988, Khan joined Metropolitan Opera as an assistant conductor to James Levine. He worked at the Met for ten years and collaborated with prominent conductors and singers such as Nello Santi, James Conlon, Julius Rudel, Christian Thielemann, Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Sherrill Milnes and others. During his years at Metropolitan Opera, Khan conducted and assisted in the production and telecast of Otto Schenk and Günther Schneider-Siemssen’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, Giancarlo del Monaco’s La Fanciulla del West and Simon Boccanegra, Franco Zeffirelli’s Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci and the world premiers of Philip Glass’ The Voyage and John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles.

In 1998, Khan joined Palm Beach Opera as the resident conductor and chorus master where he commenced the Resident Artist Program in late 2000s. He also served as the resident conductor of the Tenerife Opera Festival and the artistic director of the Mediterranean Opera Studio and Festival in Pennsylvania, United States. In 2009, Khan was appointed as the Director of the Opera School at the University of Cape Town replacing the Italian bass-baritone Angelo Gobbato who retired earlier that year. Khan worked at the University of Cape Town till 2018.

Between 2009 and 2019, Khan has worked as well as served as the resident conductor at the several prominent musical institutions such as the Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Ravinia Festival and Glimmerglass Opera. He has also given masterclasses at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, University College of Opera, Royal Irish Academy of Music and several others.

During his career that expands over three decades, Khan has collaborated with various musicians and opera singers such as Nadine Sierra, Joshua Bell, Pretty Yende, Marcelo Alvarez, Bryn Terfel, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Lauren Flanigan and many others. He has conducted and performed as a recitalist all over the world at venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de la Música Catalana, Palais Garnier, Suntory Hall, Casals Hall, Baxter Theatre Centre and Montecasino.

In 2019, Khan co-founded Opera for Peace, a charitable initiative focused on the global development of the art form of opera. He is currently serving as the Director of the Taller para Cantantes in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is also an affiliate faculty at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Opera House in London. Khan has received recognition and grants from Music Teachers National Association as well as from National Symphony Orchestra.

Repertoire

 * Aida - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Andrea Chenier - Umberto Giordano
 * Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Gioachino Rossini
 * La Boheme - Giacomo Puccini
 * Boris Godunov - Modest Mussorgsky
 * Carmen - Georges Bizet
 * Cavalleria Rusticana - Pietro Mascagni
 * Cosi fan Tutte - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Les Contes d'Hoffman - Jacques Offenbach
 * Das Rheingold - Richard Wagner
 * Dead Man Walking - Jake Heggie
 * Death in Venice - Benjamin Britten
 * Dialogues of the Carmelites - Francis Poulenc
 * Don Carlo - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Die Gotterdammerung - Richard Wagner
 * Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Die Fliegende Hollander - Richard Wagner
 * L'elisir d'amore - Gaetano Donizetti
 * Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Eugene Onegin - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * La Favorita - Gaetano Donizetti
 * La Fanciulla del West - Giacomo Puccini
 * Fedora - Umberto Giordano
 * La Finta Giardiniera - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * La Forza del Destino - Giuseppe Verdi
 * The Ghosts of Versailles - John Corigliano
 * Jenufa - Leoš Janáček
 * I Lombardi - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Lucia di Lammermoor - Gaetano Donizetti
 * Luisa Miller - John Corigliano]
 * Madama Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini
 * Il Matrimonio Segreto - Domenico Cimarosa
 * Marina - Emilio Arrieta
 * Mefistofele - Arrigo Boito
 * Midsummer Night’s Dream - Benjamin Britten
 * Missa Solemnis - Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Norma - Vincenzo Bellini
 * Nabucco - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Le Nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Otello - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Porgy and Bess - George Gershwin
 * I Pagliacci - Ruggero Leoncavallo
 * Postcard from Morocco - Dominick Argento
 * The Rake's Progress - Igor Stravinsky
 * Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Salome - Richard Strauss
 * Savitri - Gustav Holst
 * Serse - George Frideric Handel
 * Simon Boccanegra - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Il Tabarro - Giacomo Puccini
 * La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Il Trovatore - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Tosca - Giacomo Puccini
 * Turandot - Giacomo Puccini
 * Un Ballo in Maschera - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Verdi Requiem - Giuseppe Verdi
 * Il viaggio a Reims - Gioachino Rossini
 * The Voyage - Philip Glass
 * Die Zauberfloete - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart