Peter Tiboris created and conducted his first concert in New York on January 7, 1984, at Lincoln Center, featuring the American Symphony Orchestra, soloists, and three choruses, the Louisiana Chorale of Acadiana, Camerata Singers of Baton Rouge, and Collegiate Chorale of New York. Although he didn't realize it at the time, Mr. Tiboris had just created his own successful production company, MidAmerica Productions, which was to become the foremost independent producer of choral concerts in Carnegie Hall. During its 37 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, soloists, and choral and instrumental ensembles from the U.S. and abroad to appear at New York's top venues, including Stern Auditorium, Weill Recital Hall, and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; and Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall) at Lincoln Center.

 

MidAmerica Productions' concerts have showcased choral groups singing oratorios with talented conductors, full orchestra, and professional soloists; individual instrumental and choral groups performing as part of the Ensemble Spotlight Series; and solo recitals. Diverse programs have included Madrigal Festivals, Vocal Jazz Festivals, National Wind Ensemble, National Festival Youth Orchestra, and Sweet Adelines. Among the renowned guest conductors who have led MidAmerica's concerts are John Rutter (who has conducted more than 125 concerts in Carnegie Hall), Sherrill Milnes, Lukas Foss, Helmuth Rilling, H. Robert Reynolds, JoAnne Falletta, Michael Morgan, and Jonathan Willcocks. More than 800 conductors have conducted on MidAmerica's series in New York, sharing the stage with 1200 solo artists from the world's greatest opera companies and concert stages, and more than 3700 choral ensembles from the U.S. and abroad. There have been 174 youth and collegiate orchestras and well as 146 youth and collegiate bands, jazz bands, and wind ensembles.

 

Over the years, MidAmerica has commissioned new works and presented numerous premieres in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Its 93 world premieres have included Dinos Constantinides' Byron's Greece , Hymn to the Human Spirit , and Midnight Fantasy II for wind ensemble; John Rutter's Cantate Domino, Distant Land, Magnificat, and Mass of the Children ; and John Leavitt's A Christmas Garland . Its 21 U.S. premieres and 105 New York premieres have featured new and older works such as Mozart's Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots , Reimann's Concerto for Violin and Cello , Tchaikovsky's Ode to Joy , Mikis Theodorakis' Electra and Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra , and Rene Clausen's Hellas: In the Name of Freedom . In 2015, John Rutter conducted the New York premiere of his work, C anticles of Creation . Additional to its Stern Auditorium series, MidAmerica Productions has presented 400 chamber music concerts in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall since 1989. World-class soloists, chamber ensembles, and members of orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic have appeared on MidAmerica's chamber music series.

 

In 2004 Peter Tiboris founded MidAm International, which produces concerts in major international cultural centers including Vienna, Salzburg, Florence, Verona, Venice, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Lisbon, Porto, London, Oxford, Athens, Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 2005, he created the International Festival of the Aegean on the Greek island of Syros where, each July, he presents international-caliber performances of opera, oratorios, concerti, symphonic works, Greek folk music, jazz, theater and ballet. In 2011, the Festival was named "Best cultural organization operating in the wider region of Greece" by the Awards Committee of Music Critics of the Union of Greek Theatre and Music Critics in Athens.