Avi Stein

Avi Stein teaches continuo accompaniment, vocal repertoire, and chamber music at Juilliard. He is the organist and chorusmaster at Trinity Church and the artistic director of the Helicon Foundation. Stein directed the young artists’ program at the Carmel Bach Festival and Musiktheater Bavaria’s International Baroque Academy, and he has conducted a variety of ensembles including Tafelmusik, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Opéra Français de New York, and Opera Omnia as well as the Amherst Early Music Festival opera and Trinity’s 4x4 Festival.

At Juilliard, Stein conducted Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in a production that toured to London’s Holland Park and the Royal Opera House at the Palace of Versailles as well as a production of Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, which was named one of the best performances of the year by the New York Times. He also performed on the Boston Early Music Festival’s recording of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, which won the 2015 Grammy for best opera recording. Stein studied at Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Southern California, and was a Fulbright scholar in Toulouse, France.