Adrian Bryttan, was elected Artistic Director and Conductor of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in May of 2008. A resident of New York City, Maestro Bryttan enjoys an international career as a conductor as well as violin soloist. He performed the Alban Berg violin concerto as winner of the Concerto Competition at the Manhattan School of Music and was also the first recipient of the Pablo Casals Award “for musical accomplishment and human endeavor”.

At the podium, Mr. Bryttan’s extensive symphonic repertoire encompasses world premiere performances of symphonic compositions and operas. He has been engaged to lead new productions at the Chicago Opera Theater, New Haven and New Rochelle Operas, and the John Brownlee Opera Theater. He has appeared with Sinfonia Varsovia in Warsaw, Theater Bielefeld in Germany, the Seoul Philharmonic in Korea and in numerous televised performances with the Lviv Philharmonic, Lviv Opera and Kharkiv Opera in Ukraine. His latest CD recording is Händel's "Acis and Galatea" with the Warsaw Chamber Symphony. Recently Classical New Jersey praised his conducting of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” as “brilliant and masterful...could have emerged from any orchestra pit in the world with honor.”

In 2005 and 2006 Adrian Bryttan was appointed a Fulbright International Scholar and assigned to Ukraine where he introduced such contemporary symphonic compositions like Ginastera's ballet suite from "Estancia", the Britten "Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes", William Grant Still's "Panamanian Dances", compositions by Gunther Schuller, contemporary Chinese composers and "Big Band Sounds" and other jazz works for orchestra. During his tenure in Ukraine, he worked with professional symphonies, opera theaters, musical conservatories, and lectured at universities, museums, and film societies.

Mr. Bryttan has served as conductor and violinist on the music faculties at Memphis State, Kansas State and Notre Dame Universities and most recently, Vassar College. He has been invited to conduct operatic and symphonic performances at Rutgers University and the Manhattan School of Music.

January 14, 2010