Conductor DAVID FALLIS is one of Canada's leading interpreters of operatic and choral/orchestral
repertoire, especially that of the Baroque and Classical periods. As Music Director for Opera Atelier he has helped bring that company onto stages around the world, and for them Mr. Fallis has conducted Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI, DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE and LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Purcell’s DIDO AND AENEAS and THE FAIRY QUEEN, Handel’s ACIS AND GALATEA, LA RESURREZIONE and IL PASTOR FIDO, Charpentier’s LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME and ACTÉON, Monteverdi's ORFEO and L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA, Gluck's ORFEO ED EURIDICE and Rameau's PYGMALION. Twice, he has led the Opera Atelier forces on tour to Seoul, South Korea conducting the Korean Symphony Orchestra and Camerata Antiqua Seoul, and in Japan, conducting DON GIOVANNI and LE NOZZE DI FIGARO.
He has also led critically-acclaimed productions for Houston Grand Opera (Monteverdi’s L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA and ORFEO), Cleveland Opera (Handel’s GIULIO CESARE and POPPEA), Wolftrap Theater (POPPEA), and in the spring of 2004 he made his debut at Utah Opera in James Robinson’s new production of Handel's GIULIO CESARE. He has led the Toronto Consort in opera-in-concert performances of Cavalli’s LA CALISTO, Luigi Rossi's ORFEO and all three Monteverdi operas.
On the symphonic stage, Mr. Fallis has conducted Orchestra London in a program of Haydn and Mozart, and the Windsor Symphony in programs of C.P.E. Bach, Handel arias, and Handel’s MESSIAH. He has been a guest with Symphony Nova Scotia conducting the Mozart REQUIEM, and he led Symphony New Brunswick in Handel’s WATER MUSIC. Artistic Director of the Toronto Consort and conductor of the Toronto Chamber Choir, Fallis has conducted Canada's leading orchestras specializing in Baroque and Classical repertoire, including Tafelmusik and the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal. With the Toronto Chamber Choir he led the world premiere of Christos Hatzis' DE ANGELIS, and conducted DIDO AND AENEAS with Opera Atelier at the Singapore Festival. With the Toronto Consort, a renowned chamber group specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Mr. Fallis has toured extensively in Europe and Canada and recorded for Marquis Classics, Dorian and SRI.
In another direction, Mr. Fallis guest conducted the Elmer Iseler Singers on tour in the U.S.A. in a programme of the Bach motets and led the famous choral ensemble in a performance of the MISSA FLAMENCA by the flamenco guitar master Paco Peña.
Mr. Fallis has also worked in film and television. He led the Toronto Consort in music for Atom Egoyan’s THE SWEET HEREAFTER, and he is currently the Historical Music Producer for the acclaimed TV series THE TUDORS, featuring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sam Neill and Peter O’Toole, produced for Showtime.
He has served as conductor for the new music collective Continuum and his program of works by Arvo Pärt has been heard on CBC's Two New Hours. In the 2004/2005 season he was co-artistic director of Toronto's Metamorphosis Festival, an innovative and multi-cultural three-month-long festival of music, opera, dance, film, theatre and design. Mr. Fallis teaches in the Graduate Department of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.
