ABOUT
Gregory DiLuzio is an active operatic and orchestral conductor. A strong advocate of interdisciplinary collaboration and bringing music outside of the modern concert hall and into the community, he conducted Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with /kor/ productions, staged in the Berger Park Historical Mansion and the Growling Rabbit Café, both in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. Also with /kor/ productions he conducted Verdi's Falstaff, staged in the Act One Pub in Rogers Park. He worked with Lingerie Lyrique, an opera company that combines traditional opera with elements of burlesque and Vaudeville, conducting Forest Fantasies, a collection of opera scenes in French, Italian, Russian, and English from operas by Massenet, Rossini, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Janáček. In addition, he assisted with musical preparation for Stranger Here Myself, a staged revue of Kurt Weill songs. Other more traditional conducting engagements include Thompson Street Opera (Johanny Navarro's Redención, Pedro Finisterra's The Boy Who Wanted to be a Robot, Tony Manfredonia's Ghost Variations, and John Young's Death of Ivan Ilych), Third Eye Theatre Ensemble (Stefan Weisman's Darkling), No Little Plans Opera (Die Walküre), Main Street Opera (Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Lucia di Lammermoor, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Falstaff), American Chamber Opera (Die Fledermaus, for which he was also the stage director), Northwestern University (Die Fledermaus, Gianni Schicchi), Roosevelt University (Candide), Texas Tech University (L'elisir d'amore, Gluck's Orfeo), and Moonlight Musicals (Once Upon A Mattress). Internationally, he has conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini as part of the Musica e Musica concert series in Mercatello sul Metauro, Italy, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa in Xalapa, Mexico, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
A multi-talented performing artist, in the past Mr. DiLuzio has sung operatic and musical theatre roles with several companies and played a variety of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments in wind ensembles and opera orchestras. He also performed for multiple summers as part of the Rebel Shakespeare Company, dedicated to staging Shakespeare's plays in the parks of Boston's North Shore.
Pursuing an interest in chamber music, Mr. DiLuzio founded the Nuvole Ensemble, a Chicago-based chamber group dedicated to bringing the intimacy of chamber music to the greater Chicago area while collaborating with arts institutions throughout Chicagoland. The ensemble collaborated with Main Street Opera for productions of Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, and Falstaff. He also performed American composer Mark Danciger's The King of Snow for voice, marimba, and flute, as well as 4-handed piano versions of selected Brahms Hungarian Dances and J. Strauss's polka, Unter Donner und Blitz. In an effort to develop and strengthen relationships within the broader community, he has performed in numerous non-traditional venues such as pubs, senior living facilities, libraries, art galleries, schools, cultural centers, and public parks.
Mr. DiLuzio holds a Master of Music from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was named a Theodore Presser Scholar, received the Dorothy Ornest Voice Scholarship, and the Frank Prentice Rand Scholarship. He is currently finishing his doctoral degree in Orchestral Conducting at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, where he is the recipient of a teaching assistantship and the AT&T Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship, and is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.