Victor T. Anstine has been studying and conducting symphonic music for nearly two decades, and operatic music and the production of drama for close to a decade, starting in 2017. He is also comfortable in the position of Maestro al cembalo. To read a biography or to learn more, visit the “About" page.

In 2022 he was appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Akron Pops Orchestra in Akron, Ohio, as well as the Assistant Conductor of the Euclid Symphony Orchestra under Matthew Salvaggio in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2024, Victor was appointed Pit Orchestra Conductor for the Akron Civic Theatre’s Akron All-City Musical 11th and 12th Season productions.

As a young conductor and musician, he is always seeking opportunities to expand his experiences, on and off the podium and to better the public's perception of The Arts.

Rehearsal footage available upon request, listed below.

Full Symphonic portfolio available upon request.

Past Performances

Also available upon request:

Archived performances and rehearsals from 2019-2024:

  • Danube Symphony Orchestra Full Rehearsal, Budapest Hungary

  • Joseph Bologne Chevalier St. Georges, “L’Amant Anonyme” Overture (1780), Full Rehearsal, Mr. Anstine at the Piano

  • Pietro Mascagni, Intermezzo from “Cavalieria rusticana”(1890), Rehearsal

  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4, Mov. 1 (1899), Performance & Full Rehearsal

  • Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll (1870), Performance & Full Rehearsal

  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 10 (1910-11) - II. Scherzo, V. Finale, Full Rehearsal

  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 8, II. Finale, Rehearsal

Danube Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal -

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1, “Blumine”

Recorded live in Budapest, Hungary 8 March, 2024, Nador Terem, Duna Szimfonikus Zenekar, Danube Symphony Orchestra - rehearsal with Victor T. Anstine

Danube Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal -

Pietro Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana, Preludio

Recorded live in Budapest, Hungary 8 March, 2024, Nador Terem, Duna Szimfonikus Zenekar, Danube Symphony Orchestra - rehearsal with Victor T. Anstine

The Akron Pops Orchestra

Recorded live in Weathervane Playhouse Theatre, The Akron Pops Orchestra (501c3 Non-Profit) is a volunteer American orchestra made up of musicians representing the many areas surrounding greater Akron, Ohio, and is one of Ohio’s most historic performing orchestras, being founded in 1926. Visit us at akronpops.org for more information and events! This is a concert highlight film of the orchestras 96th Season Finale Concert performance on July 31st, 2023

Further details and program in video description.

Conducting Abroad

Victor T. Anstine participated in the 2022 “Vienna School” Conducting Competition in Vienna, Austria in July 2022. Conducting a rehearsal with Viennese musicians of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 I. Adagio – Vivace assai, this work was drawn at random from a predetermined list.

Danube Symphony Orchestra, Rehearsal -

Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Vorspiel

Recorded live in Budapest, Hungary 8 March, 2024 , Nador Terem, Duna Szimfonikus Zenekar, Danube Symphony Orchestra - rehearsal with Victor T. Anstine

“Fanfare for the Common Man”

To kick off the 2019 Capital University Conservatory school year, members of the Capital University Orchestra joined Victor T. Anstine in performing Aaron Copland’s captivating 1942 fanfare. Further details in the video description

 

Operatic Study Portfolio

2017-2025

120 Operas,

43 Composers,

Range, 1597-1926

*with staging and cuts prepared

French

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges-

  • l'Amant Anonyme (1780)

Jean-Baptiste Lully - 

  • Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670)

  • Armide (1686)

  • Atys (1675)

Lilli Boulanger-

  • Faust et Helena (1913)

Camille Saint-Saëns-

  • Samson et Delilah (1877)

  • Phryne (1893)

Elisabeth Jacquet la Guerrera - 

  • Cephale et Procris (1694)

Giacomo Meyerbeer-

  • *Les Huguenots (1836)

  • *Robert le Diable (1831)

  • *l'Étoile du Nord (1854)

  • Le Prophete (1849) 

  • Vasco de Gama (1864)

François-Adrien Boieldieu-

  • La Dame Blanche (1825)

  • Le calife de Bagdad (1800)

Daniel Francois Auber-

  • Gustav III (1833)

  • La muette de Portici (1828)

  • Fra Diavolo  (1830)

Jules Massenet-

  • Werther (1892)

  • Manon (1884)

Ambroise Thomas -

  • Mignon (1866) 

Hector Berlioz-

  • *Les Troyens (1863)

Gaetano Donizetti- 

  • La fille du Régiment (1839)

  • Dom Sébastien (1838) 

Charles Gounod-

  • *Faust (1859)

Georges Bizet-

  • Carmen (1875)

  • Les pêcheurs de perles (1863)

Luigi Cherubini-

  • Les deux Journées (1800) 

  • Les Abencérages (1813)

German

Richard Wagner-

  • *Der Ring des Nibelungen (*Das Rheingold, *Die Walkure, *Siegfried, *Gotterdammerung, 1848-74)

  • Der Fliegende Holländer (1840)

  • Lohengrin (1850)

  • Tannhäuser (1845)

  • Die Meistersinger (1868)

  • Rienzi (1842) 

Reinhard Keiser- 

  • Croesus (1711)

Wolfgang A. Mozart-

  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782)

  • Thamos, King of Egypt (1780)

  • Die Zauberflöte (1791)

  • Bastien und Bastienne (1768) 

Richard Strauss-

  • Der Rosenkavalier (1911)

  • Feuersnot (1901)

  • Intermezzo (1924) 

Bedřich Smetana

  • The Bartered Bride (1866) 

Robert Schumann- 

  • Scenes from Goethe’s Faust (1853)

Johann Strauss II-

  • *Die Fledermaus (1874)

  • Ein Nacht Venedig (1883)

Ludwig V. Beethoven-

  • Fidelio (1805)

Franz Lehar -

  • Der Graf von Luxemburg (1909)

  • Der Lustige Witwe (1905) 

Otto Nicolai -

  • The Merry Wives Of Windsor (1849)

Albert Lortzing- 

  • Der Waffenschmied (1846)

  • Zar und Zimmerman (1837)

Carl Maria von Weber-

  • Oberon (1826)

  • Der Freischütz (1821)

Giacomo Meyerbeer-

  • Alimelek oder Wirt und Gast (1813)

  • *Ein Feldlager in Schlesien (1844)

Alexander Zemlinsky-

  • Eine florentinische Tragödie (1916)

  • Es war einmal (1900)

George Frederic Handel -

  • *Julius Caesar in Egypt (1724)

  • Almira (1705)

Italian

Jacopo Peri-

  • Euridice (1597)

Arrigo Boito- 

  • Mefistofele (1868) 

  • Nerone (1918/1924) 

Pietro Mascagni-

  • *Cavalleria rusticana (1890)

Wolfgang A. Mozart-

  • Cosi fan Tutte (1790)

  • *Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)

  • La Clamenza di Tito (1791) 

  • Don Giovanni (1787)

Antonio Salieri- 

  • Axur, re d'Ormus (1788) 

Giacomo Meyerbeer-

  • Margarita d’Anjou (1820)

  • *Il crociato in Egitto (1824)

  • Emma di Resburgo (1819)

Giacomo Puccini-

  • *La Bohème (1895)

  • La fanciulla del West (1910)

  • Il Tabarro (1918)

  • Tosca (1900)

  • Manon lescaut (1892)

Vincenzo Bellini- 

  • *Il Pirata (1827)

  • Norma (1831)

  • Adelson e Salvini (1825) 

  • Il Puritani (1835)

Gaetano Donizetti- 

  • Anna Bolena (1830)

  • Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) 

  • Il Duca d’Alba (1882)

  • Gemma di Vergy (1834)

  • La Favorita (1840) 

  • Lucrezia Borgia (1833)

Giuseppe Verdi- 

  • Otello (1887)

  • Aida (1871)

  • La Traviata (1853)

  • Rigoletto (1851)

  • Ernani (1844)

  • Il Trovatore (1853)

  • Un ballo in maschera (1859)

George Frederic Handel -

  • *Julius Caesar in Egypt (1724)

  • Rinaldo (1711)

  • Rodelinda (1736)

Claudio Monteverdi -

  • l’Orfeo (1607)

  • Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640)

Gioachino Rossini- 

  • Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)

  • Signor Bruschino (1813)

Russian

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-

  • Eugene Onegin (1832)

  • Maid of Orleans (1879)

  • Queen of Spades (1890)

English 

Dame Ethyl Smyth-

  • The Wreckers (1906)

  • The Boatswains Mate (1914)

Scott Joplin- 

  • Treemonisha (1911)

Tan Dun- 

  • Tea: A Mirror of Soul (2002)

William Grant Still- 

  • Troubled Island (1939)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor-

  • The Song of Hiawatha (1900)

Henry Purcell -

  • King Arthur (1691)

  • Dido and Aeneas (1689)

  • The Fairy Queen (1692

Musical Theater Study:

2012-2025 - 16 Musicals

 10 * w/ staging and cuts prepared

-*Titanic: The Musical (1997)

-*A Christmas Carol (Alan Menken, 1994)

- *Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Alan Menken, 1983)

- Disney’s Newsies (Alan Menken, 1992)

-*Legally Blonde (Heather Hach, 2007)

-Shrek: The Musical (2008)

-*Candide (1956/74)

-The Fiddler on The Roof (1964)

-*Les Miserables (1980)

-The Sound of Music (1959)

-*Sweeney Todd (1979)

-*A Little Night Music (1973)

-The Producers (2001)

-*Phantom of the Opera (1986)

-*Love Never Dies (2010)

-Jekyll & Hyde (1990)

Ballet Score Study:

2020-2024 - 15 Ballets

Ludwig Minkus:

  • Don Quixote (1871)

  • La Bayadere (1877)

Adolphe Adam:

  • Giselle (1841)

Leo Delibes:

  • Sylvia (1876)

Alexander Glazunov:

  • Raymonda (1898)

  • The Seasons (1899)

Cesare Pugni:

  • La Esmeralda (1844)

Pytor Tchaikovsky:

  • Sleeping Beauty (1890)

  • Swan Lake (1876)

  • The Nutcracker (1892)

Igor Stravinsky:

  • The Rite of Spring (1913)

  • Petrouchka (1911)

Aaron Copland:

  • Rodeo (1942)

  • Appalachian Spring (1944)

Leonard Bernstein:

  • Fancy Free (1944)

Example Essays and Writings

Victor is among the many artists throughout history who have valued the power of the written word to carry on the tradition of music making. Many of his most important musical and dramatic thoughts, philosophies, and ideas are written into essays, peer-reviewed, edited, and polished into cohesive works that demonstrate his new ideas and philosophies for modern music in a digestible format for all to read, debate, elaborate and collaborate.

Writings to come: (2017-2023)

  • “Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 10”

  • "The New Generations' Wagner Guide"

  • “Meyerbeer’s Operas” Essay

  • "Gesamtkunstwerk: The Mahlerian Artistic Philosophy & The Importance of Historical Recording Study"

  • "A Case for Wilhelm Richard Geyer Wagner"

  • "A Guide for Historical Recording Analysis"

  • “Der Ring des Nibelungen” Essay

  • “Antonio Pappano Masterclasses” Essays

  • “Simon Williams Wagner Society Lectures” Essays