Peter Tiboris, CEO, General Director and Artistic Director of MidAmerica Productions, has pursued a career of remarkable diversity, both as an orchestra conductor and as the creator of innovative musical organizations.

Mr. Tiboris made his New York conducting debut in January of 1984 with the American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center and his European debut in June of 1985 in Dubrovnik. He has led some 250 concert performances, not only in New York (in Carnegie Hall, with the American Symphony Orchestra or with his own Manhattan Philharmonic), but in such cities as Washington, Montréal (Société Philharmonique), Mexico City (Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico), London (Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia), Rome (Rome Philharmonic and Rome Opera House Orchestra), Palermo (Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana di Palermo), Hannover (Niedersächsische Orchester), Prague (Virtuosi di Praga), Warsaw (Warsaw Philharmonic), Sofia (Sofia Opera Orchestra), Istanbul (Millî Reasürans Chamber Orchestra), St. Petersburg (Glinka Capelle Philharmonic), and Moscow (Radio and Television Orchestra of Moscow) as well as throughout the Czech Republic, Poland (Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice, Poznan Philharmonic), Portugal (Orquesta Classica da Madeira, Orquestra Cåmara de Cascais e Oeiras), Italy (Vincenzo Bellini Symphony Orchestra of Catania, Orchestra Sinfonica della Magna Grecia in Taranto, Orchestra Sinfonica Citta di Grossetto, Firenze Opera Orchestra) and in Vienna. Critics all along the way have hailed his performances. Those in The New York Times have described them as "sizzling and precise," and "Vigorous...alert and energetic."

Mr. Tiboris's repertoire consists to date of well over 150 orchestral, choral and operatic works. Among these are ones for which he gave their world premieres (by Constantinides and Magarshak), their USA premieres (by Taneyev, Tchaikovsky, and Theodorakis), and their New York premieres (by Beethoven, Bruckner, Dello Joio, Dohnányi, Effinger, Glass, Mascagni, Rossini, Schnittke, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Verdi). He has been one of the few conductors to explore Mahler's "retouchings" of Beethoven Symphonies. He has striking success in presenting concert performances in Carnegie Hall of such rare operas as Mascagni's Silvano, Rossini's Ermione, and Theodorakis's Elektra. For such treatments of Cherubini's Medée and Taneyev's Agamemnon, the drama was enhanced by interspersing the musical score with segments spoken by distinguished acting casts (including Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich). And in all such ventures, exciting young singers from here and abroad were introduced to New York audiences.

Extending his concert work, Mr. Tiboris has preserved many of his interpretations in recordings--some twelve of them, on the Bridge, Albany, and Elysium labels (including four Symphonies and two Overtures by Beethoven, two Mozart Symphonies, and one by Schubert, all incorporating the Mahler Retuschen).

In addition to his wide podium activities, however, Mr. Tiboris has become one of today's important musical entrepreneurs. In 1984 he founded MidAmerica Productions. This has developed into New York's largest independent company for concert production. Through its work, thousands of musicians--professional and amateur; singers, choirs, ensembles, and directors--have been enabled to perform on the finest of New York's stages, including Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the latter's Weill Hall.

Under the MidAmerica umbrella, Mr. Tiboris has developed further undertakings, such as the Elysium recording label (issuing performances both his own and by others), the Manhattan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Elysium Chamber Ensemble, and Just Tenors, Inc., a management company for singers.

As a second-generation Greek-American, Mr. Tiboris particularly cherishes his work with Greek musicians, whom he has brought here to perform and with whom he works abroad. In 1998 he launched a music festival, first on the island of Mykonos, then renamed the Festival of the Aegean. In 2000 he created Opera Aegean, initially based in Athens as a training and touring company. Since then, Opera Aegean has offered a summer festival on the island of Syros, presenting operatic, theatrical, and concert events. In 2005, the festival presented Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and in the summer of 2006, Mozart’s Don Giovanni. There were four concerts in 2006 and eleven in 2007, including Mascagni’s opera Zanetto and appearances by Taximi, Stratos Vougas Jazz Quartet, and Human Touch featuring David Lynch.

Maestro Tiboris was recently honored by the Italian dance magazine Danza e Danza. Teatro dell'Opera di Roma's production of Peer Gynt, conducted by Mr. Tiboris, received the 2007 Gli Award for Production of the Year.

Mr. Tiboris received a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.