Ζoe Zeniodi
Born in Nea Smyrni with roots from Smyrna and Arcadia, Zoe Zeniodi began her brilliant career in music with piano studies in Greece. She continued in England and Austria with degrees and work as a pianist and piano accompanist at the Royal College of Music and the Mozarteum. She then lived in the USA where she completed her doctoral degree in orchestral conducting and worked for years in Miami. Internationally renowned conductor and pianist, she has worked with organizations like the Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Carnegie Hall and collaborated artists like Stephen Hough and Lise de la Salle. Zoe is a member of the Institute of Women Conductors, as well as the first woman to ever conduct in Opera Southwest, New Mexico.
Multifaceted and versatile, she sensitive about social issues related to the resilience and promotion of women in male-dominated areas and has served as the President of the Onassis Foundation Scholars Association, as well as mentor for the WOMENTORS program. She has been the Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the Alhambra Orchestra, the Broward Symphony Orchestra and her work has taken her all around the world. She is sought after in Europe, Asia and America and her next collaborations in 2021 are with the New Zealand Opera, where she will conduct Mozart’s opera Le Nozze di Figaro, with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay in Montevideo and the Asia-Europe New Music Festival in Vietnam.
A mother of twins, she enjoys motherhood fully and believes that the primary role of humans are to raise real and sensitive people.
Deep empathy, endless creativity, total love for humanity, subtle sensitivity, inner connection, unquestionable ethos, resilience, strong determination, passion and joy characterize her concerts, her days, her work, her relationships and her whole life.
Zoe Zeniodi inspires us because being a female conductor is an even more controversial than being a female astronaut, according to the conductor of the Vienna Radio and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, and Zoe Zeniodi steps on the podium and conquers it.
Ζoe Zeniodi, Music Director – Conductor
