He conducted several performances including the opening concerts at the Musique Cordiale Festival in France as well as an opera production of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneus. He is part of the Pocket Opera Company Zurich were he has conducted Offenbach’s Barbe-Bleue, G&S’s Pirates of Penzance and will perform The Gondoliers.

Kevin Griffiths initially completed his training as a violinist with Adelina Oprean, Igor Ozim and Giuliano Carmignola. He received his first conducting lessons from his father Howard Griffiths MBE, whom he has assisted on various occasions. Kevin Griffiths has participated in master classes and has studied with conductor Sir Colin Davis, Jorma Panula, Lothar Zagrosek, George Hurst, and Yan Pascal Tortelier. He was a finalist at the first Orpheum Conducting Master Class held in Zurich.

Major influences in his development as a conductor include his studies with David Zinman, who awarded him a fellowship for the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2004 and 2005, and with Colin Metters, with whom he studied at the Royal Academy of Music on the Post-graduate Conducting Course, successfully completed in the summer of 2007.