Theodore Kuchar[a] (born May 31, 1963) is an American and Ukrainian conductor of classical music and a violist.

[1][2][3] He started to learn to play the violin at ten years of age, later switching to viola.

[4] He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where his viola instructor was Robert Vernon, in 1982.

[5][6] In 1980, he was awarded a Paul Fromm Fellowship from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to study at Tanglewood Music Center.

[15] He was also professor and director of orchestral studies at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder between 1996 and 2001.