Theodore Kuchar

Conductor Theodore Kuchar has been active in many countries beyond his native U.S., notably in Ukraine. Kuchar was appointed music director of the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra in Brisbane and the West Australian Ballet in Perth in 1987. When it was renamed the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in 1994, Kuchar became its principal conductor and artistic director. Soon after that, he and the orchestra released a recording of Boris Lyatoshinsky's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5. That was the first of more than 140 recordings Kuchar has made. In 2022, Kuchar returned to Ukraine, becoming principal conductor of the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra, and that year, he took up a new post as professor of orchestral conducting at Houghton University in upstate New York. In 2023, he conducted the Lublin Philharmonic on the album Rhapsodic: Gershwin, Rachmaninoff with pianist Fanya Lin.