It’s been a busy fall for the music director of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra and interim director of the Glee Club. In January he’ll lead a student collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company. In February he’ll conduct the world premiere of The Temp and Mr. Prosper, a new oratorio composed by Taylor Ho Bynum, leader of the College’s Coast Jazz Orchestra. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the piece marks the first collaboration between the orchestra and the Coast.

This spring Ciabatti will direct a two-chorus, full orchestra production of Benjamin Britten’s The War Requiem. And he’s still working with operatic hopefuls through his innovative Opera Lab. “We expose the students to a great variety of music and styles that span the centuries,” says the native Italian. “It’s fulfilling to see the students grow as individuals and as a group of musicians.”