A native of Rochester, NY, Mr. Kittelberger joined Rochester City Ballet after receiving his training at the Timothy M. Draper Center for Dance Education and other local dance institutions. Solo roles with RCB include the Mouse King, Lead Chinese, Italian Ice, the Nutcracker Prince, and the Snow King in The Nutcracker, the Suitor in Don Quixote, and Prince Ivan in Firebird. In addition, Mr. Kittelberger was the male lead in Gershwin in the Park, a soloist in Robert LaFosse’s Correspondence, a featured soloist in MECA: Color Sound Music and in Jamey Leverett’s Push & Pull, A Common Thread, How to Break a Heart, LumaVoce, and was Fitzk in her world premiere of The Blood Countess. He was a guest performer in Ballet Manchester’s “Classical Dance on the Hill”, with dancers from American Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Ballet, and was a featured performer in Hoedown, Tangazo and Bravo! Colorado, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Kittelberger was chosen by guest choreographer Patrick Corbin to be in the world premiere of Shady III, and danced as the Waltz Boy in Balanchine’s Serenade. Mr. Kittelberger is regularly a guest performer in Central Illinois Ballet’s The Nutcracker. In September 2011 he toured Japan as a guest performer with Les Ballets Grandiva.