About this Artist

At the Hollywood Bowl, Kevin Stites recently conducted an all-star tribute to Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, as well as Everybody Rise! A Sondheim Celebration, featuring Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster, Sierra Boggess, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Norm Lewis, and Skylar Astin. He made his Chicago Symphony and Ravinia Festival debut with Yours, Stephen Sondheim, followed by a tribute to Henry Mancini. Other Hollywood Bowl appearances include Into the Woods (2019), The Producers (2012), Guys and Dolls (2009), Les Misérables (2008), and Kristin Chenoweth’s solo concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Stites also conducted the LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall with Brian Stokes Mitchell. He spent six seasons as Principal Conductor/Musical Director for the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, was Music Director for Manhattan Concert Productions of Titanic and Crazy for You at David Geffen Hall as well as Broadway Classics in Concert at Carnegie Hall, and conducted the monodrama Falling Man by Kenneth Fuchs at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. He has served as guest conductor with the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago (Sondheim, Bernstein, Gershwin, Loesser, Porter, and Lerner and Loewe tributes). He currently serves as Principal Pops Conductor for the Rockford (IL) Symphony Orchestra.