Karen Kamensek

Karen Kamensek, born in Chicago, is equally at home on the opera and concert stages. Her broad range of interests and her varied work extend from classical to modern, including many world premieres, film music and crossover projects (jazz and world music). A specialist in contemporary music, she regularly works with the American composer Philip Glass, whose Orphée she conducted in New York and Germany, as well as Glass’s world premiere of Les Enfants Terribles at the Spoleto Festival USA. Most recently she conducted Glass’ Satyagraha and the successful new production of Glass’ Akhnaten at the ENO, as well as Glass’ Passages with Anoushka Shankar at the BBC Proms and at the Philharmonie de Paris. In the 2019/20 season she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Glass’ Akhnaten. In t