GREGOR KITZIS

GREGOR KITZIS has performed and recorded with orchestras including The Orchestra of St. Lukes, Blanche Moyse's New England Bach Festival, Concordia and Bang On A Can's Spit Orchestra, new music groups including Ensemble 21, North/South Consonance, Essential Music, Common Sense, The Group For Contemporary Music, and the Crosstown, Xenakis and S.E.M Ensembles, and bands including Songs From a Random House, Gawk, Church of Betty and Voltaire.

Gregor has played everything from solo and chamber music recitals and Broadway Shows to rock, ragtime, Klezmer, Indian and Tango in venues ranging from Carnegie, Merkin, Avery Fischer and Alice Tully Halls to CBGB's, The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, Saturday Night Live, Live From Lincoln Center, the David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Rosie O'Donnel and Jay Leno Shows, and new music and jazz festivals throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. He has worked with artists ranging from Anthony Braxton, Elliot Sharp and Don Byron to John Cage, Morton Feldman, Elliot Carter and George Crumb.

"The important violin solos were excellently projected by Gregor Kitzis, sometimes with whistling purity, always with vivid presence." - Paul Griffiths, New York Times, 11/22/00