Tim Janiszewski
Conductor
About Tim Janiszewski
Tim Janiszewski currently serves as Conductor of the Intermezzo Orchestra with Encore Music Academy. Previously, he served as Music Director and Conductor of the Illinois Valley Youth Symphony, Conductor of the Midwest String Orchestra, Music Director at Naperville Summer Place Theatre, and Assistant Conductor with the Midwest Philharmonic Orchestra and Northwest Symphony Orchestra.
Tim Janiszewski has appeared as a guest conductor with ensembles including the Gwinnett Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Smoky Mountain International Festival Orchestra, Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and Elmhurst Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2025, he was selected as one of eight conductors for Rising Stars: New York, a conducting workshop where he worked with Marin Alsop at the Music Conservatory of Westchester. From 2013 to 2016, he was a six-time winner of Elmhurst University’s Conducting Competition, resulting in a three-year engagement conducting the university’s Philharmonic Orchestra and Symphonic Band.
Deeply committed to music education, Tim Janiszewski is an active clinician working with young musicians and ensembles throughout the Chicagoland area. His work includes coaching chamber ensembles and serving as a cover conductor for the Hyde Park Youth Orchestras, as well as serving as a teaching artist and Assistant Conductor with the El Sistema Ravinia Youth Orchestras.
Tim Janiszewski holds a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from Messiah University, where he studied with Dr. Timothy Dixon and conducted the Messiah Symposium Orchestra. He earned his bachelor’s degree in music education and music theory/composition from Elmhurst University.
Repertoire
Adams
The Chairman Dances
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Arriaga
Los esclavos felices Overture
Beethoven
Coriolan Overture
Egmont Overture
Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9
Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Romanian Folk Dances
Berlioz
Hungarian March
Symphonie fantastique
Bernstein
Overture to Candide
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Borodin
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Tragic Overture
Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, and 3
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Appalachian Spring
Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 8, and 12
Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Dvorak
Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9
Elgar
Chanson de Matin
Chanson de Nuit
Franck
Symphony in D minor
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Grieg
Holberg Suite
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
In Autumn
Haydn
Symphony no. 94
Holst
St. Peters Suite
Khachaturian
Masquerade Suite
Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture
Symphony No. 4
Mozart
Ave Verum Corpus
Mass in C major, K 317 "Coronation Mass"
Overture to Apollo et Hyacinthus
Overture to Bastien und Bastienne
Overture to Don Giovanni
Overtures to The Magic Flute
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Overture to Mitridate
Overture to Il Rè Pastore
Overture to Idomeno
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Symphonies Nos. 1, 25, 29, 39, 40, and 41
Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Pictures at an Exhibition
Márquez
Danzón No. 2
Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Major
Rimsky-Korsakov
Dance of the Tumblers
Scheherazade
Rossini
La Gazza Ladra Overture
Saint-Saëns
Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah
Schubert
Symphony No. 5 and 8
Sibelius
Andante Festivo
Finlandia
Smetana
The Moldau
Stravinsky
Firebird Suite (1919)
Petrushka Suite
Strauss, R.
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Romanze for Cello and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
Serenade for Strings
Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Verdi
Nabucco Overture
Warlock
Capriol Suite
