Peter Tiboris
American concert producer, conductor, music director and teacher Peter Ernest Tiboris was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on 31 October 1947. He developed an interest in Greek culture through his mother, Stella Menas, who was Orthodox Greek-American. He studied piano from the age of five and organ from nine, becoming organist at St Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church in Sheboygan when he was only ten.
He studied music education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and taught at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette. Whilst in this job, he was asked to organise a New York City concert to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Archbishop Iakovos as head of the Greek Orthodox in North and South America. The concert became Tiboris' conducting debut.
Peter Tiboris went on, through his companies MidAmerica Productions and MidAm International, to conduct many choral, orchestral, operatic and ballet works, including rarely performed repertoire, conducting in more than twenty countries, including China. MidAmerica Productions has produced over fifteen-hundred concerts, including more than a hundred appearances of English composer and conductor John Rutter. The company also spawned Elysium Recordings in 1995, a CD label known for releasing performances by Lukas Foss and works by Mascagni.
Peter Tiboris died on 17 September 2024, aged seventy-six.