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Donato Cabrera (February 4, 1970 - ) is an American conductor
. He made his professional debut with the Reno Chamber Orchestra at the age of 24. Since his 1998 critically acclaimed European debut with the Zwei-Groschen Kammer Oper München, he has pursued a multi-faceted career. He has gained expertise from working with some of the world's leading conductors while also conducting opera companies and symphonic orchestras of the highest caliber. His aptitude and potentiality have been recognized by critics and musicians alike for the rare combination of passion, talent, and experience to conduct in the concert hall and opera house. He is currently the Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony
, the Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO), and the Music Director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.
debut in April 2009 when he conducted the Orchestra with 24 hours notice, in a program of Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 and Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, and Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Donato Cabrera joined the San Francisco Symphony conducting staff in September 2009 and is Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO). In April 2010, Cabrera made his debut, again on short notice, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Cabrera made his South American debut in 2008, conducting Madama Butterfly with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción in Chile and returns yearly to conduct symphonic and operatic repertoire. In May 2011, Donato Cabrera was appointed as the Music Director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.
, Cabrera was first engaged to prepare the cast and conduct all of the initial rehearsals for the world premiere production of John Adams
's opera, Doctor Atomic
. This process has been preserved in the award-winning documentary, Wonders Are Many, which will be nationally broadcast in the United States on PBS in the fall of 2008. At San Francisco Opera
, he has conducted and assisted on productions of Don Giovanni
, Tannhäuser
, Die Zauberflöte, La Rondine
, The Rake's Progress
, La forza del destino
, Madama Butterfly
, Manon Lescaut
, Das Rheingold
, Der Rosenkavalier
and Tristan und Isolde
. He made his debut with the company in October 2006 conducting Die Fledermaus
. Moreover, in December 2005, he made his highly acclaimed debut with the Portland Opera
conducting Britten
's The Rape of Lucretia. Cabrera was an Assistant and Cover Conductor for the Metropolitan Opera
, where he worked with the New York Philharmonic
's incoming Music Director Alan Gilbert
on a new production of Doctor Atomic.
's artistic community. In December 2009, he made his debut with the San Francisco Ballet, conducting performances of The Nutcracker and is one of few conductors who have conducted performances at all three San Francisco institutions: the Symphony, Opera, and Ballet. In the spring of 2008, he conducted a workshop of Brahms's Symphony No. 1 with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra and was immediately reengaged in the 2008-09 season to lead further workshops of the core repertoire. In March 2008, he made his debut with Berkeley Opera, conducting a production of L’Elisir d’Amore, which received unanimous praise and glowing reviews.
, Jacob Druckman
, Donald Martino
, Frederic Rzewski
, and Elliott Carter
.
, annually performing to over fifteen thousand children throughout the state of New Jersey
. He frequently led the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra, an organization that is dedicated to providing a musically enriching and nurturing atmosphere to inner-city youth in and around the city of Newark
. In addition, he has conducted the youth orchestras of Juilliard, Cincinnati, Norwalk, Connecticut
, and Ridgefield, Connecticut
. Cabrera is also committed to working with young singers and has worked with members of the young artist programs of the Portland Opera
and San Francisco Opera
on numerous occasions.
, Ravinia Festival, Spoleto Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. For two summers, he served as Resident Conductor at the Music Academy of the West
. As an assistant conductor, he has worked with many of the world's leading conductors, including James Conlon
, Mariss Jansons
, Neeme Järvi
, Nicola Luisotti
, Zdeněk Mácal
, Kurt Masur
, Julius Rudel
, Donald Runnicles
, and Stanisław Skrowaczewski.
Donato Cabrera (February 4, 1970 - ) is an American conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
. He made his professional debut with the Reno Chamber Orchestra at the age of 24. Since his 1998 critically acclaimed European debut with the Zwei-Groschen Kammer Oper München, he has pursued a multi-faceted career. He has gained expertise from working with some of the world's leading conductors while also conducting opera companies and symphonic orchestras of the highest caliber. His aptitude and potentiality have been recognized by critics and musicians alike for the rare combination of passion, talent, and experience to conduct in the concert hall and opera house. He is currently the Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Symphony is an orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980, the orchestra has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus are part of the organization...
, the Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO), and the Music Director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.
Symphonic
Mr. Cabrera made his San Francisco SymphonySan Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Symphony is an orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980, the orchestra has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus are part of the organization...
debut in April 2009 when he conducted the Orchestra with 24 hours notice, in a program of Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 and Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, and Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Donato Cabrera joined the San Francisco Symphony conducting staff in September 2009 and is Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO). In April 2010, Cabrera made his debut, again on short notice, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Cabrera made his South American debut in 2008, conducting Madama Butterfly with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción in Chile and returns yearly to conduct symphonic and operatic repertoire. In May 2011, Donato Cabrera was appointed as the Music Director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.
Opera
As the Associate Conductor of the San Francisco OperaSan Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
, Cabrera was first engaged to prepare the cast and conduct all of the initial rehearsals for the world premiere production of John Adams
John Coolidge Adams
John Coolidge Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine , On the Transmigration of Souls , a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks , and Shaker...
's opera, Doctor Atomic
Doctor Atomic
Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on 1 October 2005. The work focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb was...
. This process has been preserved in the award-winning documentary, Wonders Are Many, which will be nationally broadcast in the United States on PBS in the fall of 2008. At San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
, he has conducted and assisted on productions of Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
, Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser (opera)
Tannhäuser is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two German legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest at Wartburg...
, Die Zauberflöte, La Rondine
La rondine
La rondine is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert...
, The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on May 2, 1947, in a Chicago...
, La forza del destino
La forza del destino
La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino , by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed...
, Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...
, Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost....
, Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold
is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four individual operas.Das Rheingold received its premiere at the National Theatre...
, Der Rosenkavalier
Der Rosenkavalier
Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac...
and Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting...
. He made his debut with the company in October 2006 conducting Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.- Literary sources :...
. Moreover, in December 2005, he made his highly acclaimed debut with the Portland Opera
Portland Opera
Portland Opera is an American opera company based at The Hampton Opera Center in Portland, Oregon. Its mainstage performances take place in the Keller Auditorium, while the Portland Opera Studio Theater at the Hampton center is used for performances of chamber operas...
conducting Britten
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
's The Rape of Lucretia. Cabrera was an Assistant and Cover Conductor for the Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
, where he worked with the New York Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five"...
's incoming Music Director Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert (conductor)
Alan Gilbert is an American violinist and conductor. He is currently the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, making his debut performance as the orchestra's music director on September 16, 2009.-Early years:...
on a new production of Doctor Atomic.
San Francisco Bay Area
Cabrera has quickly established himself as an integral member of the Bay AreaSan Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
's artistic community. In December 2009, he made his debut with the San Francisco Ballet, conducting performances of The Nutcracker and is one of few conductors who have conducted performances at all three San Francisco institutions: the Symphony, Opera, and Ballet. In the spring of 2008, he conducted a workshop of Brahms's Symphony No. 1 with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra and was immediately reengaged in the 2008-09 season to lead further workshops of the core repertoire. In March 2008, he made his debut with Berkeley Opera, conducting a production of L’Elisir d’Amore, which received unanimous praise and glowing reviews.
New Music
As Music Director and co-founder of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Cabrera's commitment to new music has been fully realized. With ACME, he was able to promote and perform works of promising young composers as well as to conduct modern-day masterpieces. To date, Cabrera has conducted ACME in works by John AdamsJohn Coolidge Adams
John Coolidge Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine , On the Transmigration of Souls , a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks , and Shaker...
, Jacob Druckman
Jacob Druckman
Jacob Druckman was an American composer born in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Druckman studied with Vincent Persichetti, Peter Mennin, and Bernard Wagenaar. In 1949 and 1950 he studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood and later continued his studies at the École Normale de...
, Donald Martino
Donald Martino
Donald Martino was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer.Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino studied composition with Ernst Bacon, Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, and Luigi Dallapiccola...
, Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...
, and Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...
.
Music Education & Community Outreach
Cabrera is also dedicated to music education and community outreach. During the 2010-2011 season he will also conduct the San Francisco Symphony in the Dia de los Muertos Family Concert as well as selected Concerts for Kids, Adventures in Music and Music for Families concerts, which annually draw more than 60,000 young people and their families from throughout the Bay Area to Davies Symphony Hall.For over four seasons, he programmed and conducted Young People's Concerts for the New Jersey Symphony OrchestraNew Jersey Symphony Orchestra
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra located in the state of New Jersey, United States. Philip James founded the orchestra in 1922. The orchestra is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. Neeme Järvi, the NJSO's music director from 2005 to 2009, is currently the orchestra's...
, annually performing to over fifteen thousand children throughout the state of New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. He frequently led the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra, an organization that is dedicated to providing a musically enriching and nurturing atmosphere to inner-city youth in and around the city of Newark
Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...
. In addition, he has conducted the youth orchestras of Juilliard, Cincinnati, Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County...
, and Ridgefield, Connecticut
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Ridgefield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Situated in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, the 300-year-old community had a population of 24,638 at the 2010 census. The town center, which was formerly a borough, is defined by the U.S...
. Cabrera is also committed to working with young singers and has worked with members of the young artist programs of the Portland Opera
Portland Opera
Portland Opera is an American opera company based at The Hampton Opera Center in Portland, Oregon. Its mainstage performances take place in the Keller Auditorium, while the Portland Opera Studio Theater at the Hampton center is used for performances of chamber operas...
and San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
on numerous occasions.
Summer Festival
Cabrera has been an Assistant Conductor at many prestigious summer festivals including the Salzburg FestivalSalzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
, Ravinia Festival, Spoleto Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. For two summers, he served as Resident Conductor at the Music Academy of the West
Music Academy of the West
The Music Academy of the West is a music conservatory located in Montecito, California near Santa Barbara, California. Every year, it hosts a summer music festival for the community highlighted by concerts and workshops directed by famous composers, conductors, and artists.A yearly maximum of 135...
. As an assistant conductor, he has worked with many of the world's leading conductors, including James Conlon
James Conlon
James Conlon is an American conductor and the current Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera.-Early years:Conlon grew up in a family of five children on Cherry Street in Douglaston, Queens, New York. His mother, Angeline L. Conlon, was a freelance writer. His father was an assistant to the New...
, Mariss Jansons
Mariss Jansons
Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons is a Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvīds Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga Ghetto...
, Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi is an Estonian-born conductor.-Early life:Järvi studied music first in Tallinn, and later in Leningrad at the Leningrad Conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Nikolai Rabinovich, among others...
, Nicola Luisotti
Nicola Luisotti
Nicola Luisotti is an Italian musician. He has been music director of San Francisco Opera since September 2009 and also serves as principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.-Early life:...
, Zdeněk Mácal
Zdenek Mácal
Zdeněk Mácal is a Czech conductor.Mácal began violin lessons with his father at age four. He later attended the Brno Conservatory and the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, where he graduated in 1960 with top honors. He became principal conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and...
, Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur is a German conductor, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music.- Biography :Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. Masur has been married three times...
, Julius Rudel
Julius Rudel
Julius Rudel is an American opera and orchestra conductor who emigrated to the United States from Austria at the age of 17 and studied conducting at the Mannes College of Music in New York City. He then forged a 35-year career with the New York City Opera, from 1944 to 1979, and was the Music...
, Donald Runnicles
Donald Runnicles
Donald Runnicles is a Scottish conductor who has worked extensively in other countries, particularly Germany and the USA....
, and Stanisław Skrowaczewski.
Opera
- 2008 (Fall) Metropolitan OperaMetropolitan OperaThe Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
, Assistant and Cover Conductor for a production of John AdamsJohn Coolidge AdamsJohn Coolidge Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine , On the Transmigration of Souls , a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks , and Shaker...
's Doctor AtomicDoctor AtomicDoctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on 1 October 2005. The work focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb was... - 2008 Berkeley Opera, Music Director and Conductor for a production of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore
- 2006-7 San Francisco OperaSan Francisco OperaSan Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
, Guest Conductor- October 2007, Die Zauberflöte
- October 2007, TannhäuserTannhäuser (opera)Tannhäuser is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two German legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest at Wartburg...
- June 2007, Don GiovanniDon GiovanniDon Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
- October 2006, Die FledermausDie FledermausDie Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.- Literary sources :...
- May 2006, Opera in the Gardens
- 2006–present San Francisco OperaSan Francisco OperaSan Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
, Associate Conductor- Preparing casts and conducting rehearsals for Doctor AtomicDoctor AtomicDoctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on 1 October 2005. The work focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb was...
, La forza del destinoLa forza del destinoLa forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino , by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed...
, Madama ButterflyMadama ButterflyMadama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...
, Die FledermausDie FledermausDie Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.- Literary sources :...
, Tristan und IsoldeTristan und IsoldeTristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting...
, Manon LescautManon Lescaut (Puccini)Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost....
, The Rake's ProgressThe Rake's ProgressThe Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on May 2, 1947, in a Chicago...
, Das RheingoldDas Rheingoldis the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four individual operas.Das Rheingold received its premiere at the National Theatre...
, and La RondineLa rondineLa rondine is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert...
- Preparing casts and conducting rehearsals for Doctor Atomic
- 2001 (Fall) Manhattan School of MusicManhattan School of MusicThe Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...
Opera Theater, Music Director for Opera Scenes Program - 1998 Portland OperaPortland OperaPortland Opera is an American opera company based at The Hampton Opera Center in Portland, Oregon. Its mainstage performances take place in the Keller Auditorium, while the Portland Opera Studio Theater at the Hampton center is used for performances of chamber operas...
, Guest Conductor for a production of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia
Orchestra
- 2009–Present San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Wattis Foundation Music Director
- 2009–Present San Francisco SymphonySan Francisco SymphonyThe San Francisco Symphony is an orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980, the orchestra has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus are part of the organization...
, Assistant Conductor - 2003-6 New Jersey Symphony OrchestraNew Jersey Symphony OrchestraThe New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra located in the state of New Jersey, United States. Philip James founded the orchestra in 1922. The orchestra is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. Neeme Järvi, the NJSO's music director from 2005 to 2009, is currently the orchestra's...
, Cover Conductor, including 18 series of subscription concerts per season - 2002-6 New Jersey Symphony OrchestraNew Jersey Symphony OrchestraThe New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra located in the state of New Jersey, United States. Philip James founded the orchestra in 1922. The orchestra is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. Neeme Järvi, the NJSO's music director from 2005 to 2009, is currently the orchestra's...
, Guest Conductor for Education and Outreach Concerts - 2004 Norwalk Youth Symphony Orchestra, Guest Conductor
- 2004 (Fall) Fort Worth Symphony OrchestraFort Worth Symphony OrchestraThe Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Fort Worth, Texas. The orchestra performs at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in downtown Fort Worth...
, Guest Conductor - 2004 (Spring) Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, Guest Conductor to lead rehearsals
- 2002 (Summer) Attergau Institut Orchester, Assistant Conductor to Mariss JansonsMariss JansonsMariss Ivars Georgs Jansons is a Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvīds Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga Ghetto...
and Marcello ViottiMarcello ViottiMarcello Viotti was a Swiss classical music conductor, best known for opera.Viotti was born in Vallorbe, in the French-speaking region of Switzerland, to Italian parents. He studied cello, piano and singing at the Conservatory of Lausanne. Wolfgang Sawallisch was a mentor to Viotti and encouraged...
Music festival
- 2005 Ravinia Festival, Assistant Conductor to James ConlonJames ConlonJames Conlon is an American conductor and the current Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera.-Early years:Conlon grew up in a family of five children on Cherry Street in Douglaston, Queens, New York. His mother, Angeline L. Conlon, was a freelance writer. His father was an assistant to the New...
- 2004 Spoleto Festival, Assistant Conductor to James ConlonJames ConlonJames Conlon is an American conductor and the current Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera.-Early years:Conlon grew up in a family of five children on Cherry Street in Douglaston, Queens, New York. His mother, Angeline L. Conlon, was a freelance writer. His father was an assistant to the New...
- 2003 Music Academy of the WestMusic Academy of the WestThe Music Academy of the West is a music conservatory located in Montecito, California near Santa Barbara, California. Every year, it hosts a summer music festival for the community highlighted by concerts and workshops directed by famous composers, conductors, and artists.A yearly maximum of 135...
, Guest Conductor for the Fourth of July Canadian Brass concert - 2003&2004 Music Academy of the WestMusic Academy of the WestThe Music Academy of the West is a music conservatory located in Montecito, California near Santa Barbara, California. Every year, it hosts a summer music festival for the community highlighted by concerts and workshops directed by famous composers, conductors, and artists.A yearly maximum of 135...
, Assistant Conductor - 2001 Aspen Music Festival Opera Theater, Assistant Conductor
- 1998 Zwei Groschen Opera Summer Festival, Music Director
Education
- Manhattan School of MusicManhattan School of MusicThe Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...
- Artist Diploma
- University of Illinois, Champaign – Urbana
- Master of Music – Orchestral Conducting, 1998
- University of NevadaUniversity of Nevada, RenoThe University of Nevada, Reno , is a teaching and research university established in 1874 and located in Reno, Nevada, USA...
, Reno- Bachelor of Music Performance – Conducting, 1996
Video gallery
Audio gallery
- John Adams's Shaker Loops with American Contemporary Music Ensemble
- Overture to Strauss's Die Fledermaus at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, October 2006
- Overture from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, October 2007
- Overture and Notte e giorno faticar from Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007
- Overture from Wagner's Tanhäuser at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, October 2007