Gregory Buchalter holds the titles of Music Director of Opera Fairbanks and Opera Camerata of Washington and principal conductor of Varna International. Internationally, he has conducted Salome at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Die Fledermaus at the Vienna Volksoper, Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail at the Spoleto Festival, Cosi fan Tutte with the Mediterranean Opera Festival in Italy and Eugene Onegin with the New Opera World Festival in Moscow and many operas at Varna International including the Bulgarian premieres of Candide and Kurt Weil's Street Scene. He was Music Director of Opera Las Vegas for 5 years and conducted the American Premieres of Mercadante’s I due Figaro, Von Winter’s Das Labyrinth and Donizetti’s Olivo e Pasquale in New York. 

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He was the first American to conduct with the Kazakhstan State Opera including a televised Gala concert for the President of Kazakhstan. Mr. Buchalter was Chorus Master of Santa Fe Opera, Bregenz Festival in Austria, Theater des Westens in Berlin, and for the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. 

He's been a cover conductor at the Metropolitan Opera (where the position of “Maestro di Banda” was created for him)and has worked extensively with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. At the Met he prepared several world premieres including John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, Philip Glass’ The Voyage and John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby.

Maestro Buchalter conducted Idomeneo with New England Conservatory right before the pandemic and recently made his debuts with Florida Grand Opera conducting Jake Heggie's Three Decembers, La Boheme with Teatro Lirica D'europe and Hänsel und Gretel with the Vienna Summer Music Festival. Upcoming will be a return to Florida Grand Opera, Rigoletto with Orlando Opera and Idomeneo with the Cyprus Symphony and Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Teatro Lirica D'europe.