Gordon Ostrowski

Gordon Ostrowski, Assistant Dean/Opera Producer Emeritus, served as administrator, artistic producer, stage director, and teacher at Manhattan School of Music from 1991 until his retirement in 2016.  He produced fifty operas and fifteen opera recordings during his tenure. At MSM, he remains on faculty and teaches the Opera Workshop in the fall semester and directs an Opera Scenes program in the spring semester.

He has directed Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro for the New Opera Festival of Rome and Die Zauberflote for the Tuscia Opera Festival in Viterbo, Italy. He made his directing debut with Madama Butterfly for Opera Pacific in 1990.

He has taught Career and Period Style classes for the Chautauqua Opera Young Artist’s program; Drake University in Des Moines, IA; International Lyric Academy in Rome and Viterbo; Musiktheater Bavaria; Northwestern University;  Roosevelt University, and Opera Viva! In Verona . He created and taught the Opera Workshop for high school students for the MSM Precollege.

He is the Advisor of the Young People’s Opera committee for the National Opera Association. He serves as Chair on the board of directors of the Douglas Moore Fund for American Opera.  He has served on the board of directors of the National Opera Association as Vice President for Conventions, the board of directors of Opera America, and is past president of Opera for Youth, Inc.

He has previously served at the University of Southern California as producer/stage manager; the Santa Fe Opera as production assistant and assistant director; the Cincinnati Opera as assistant director and stage director of ECCO (Ensemble Company of Cincinnati Opera); and Michigan Opera Theatre as assistant to the general director.  He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and Central Michigan University.