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Jennifer Huang - Santa Rosa Symphony Aspirante Youth Orchestra, conductor

Jennifer Huang is a Taiwanese-American conductor and instrumentalist based in the Bay Area. Her most recent engagements include serving as the Assistant Conductor and Chorus Director of West Edge Opera’s Summer 2019 season, Music Director of the UC Berkeley Chamber Orchestra and Summer Symphony, and Assistant Conductor of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus. As an accomplished violinist, pianist, and vocalist, Huang has also performed under the baton of world-class artists such as Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, and David Robertson. In 2016, she graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a dual degree in Molecular Cell Biology and Music. There she studied violin performance with Dan Flanagan and Antoine van Dongen and conducting with Professor David Milnes.
 
While the majority of her work focuses on standard orchestral repertoire, Huang is also an active opera conductor and a strong advocate for new music performance, working closely with composers from around the world. In her musical studies at UC Berkeley, she conducted and music-directed a student opera, A Note Before I Go, for which she was awarded the Eisner Prize and the Mary Nunes Souza Award from the University. In fall of 2019, Jennifer will conduct a workshop of a new opera, Both Eyes Open, by Max Duykers and librettist Philip Gotunda, working alongside tenor John Duykers and members of the Paul Dresher Ensemble. 
 
“Young people have an amazing potential to connect with music.  As an artist and conductor, I'm inspired by how naturally they react to what they hear and how, with just a little guidance, they can develop a deep capacity for artistic expression. With the Aspirante Youth Orchestra, I am very much looking forward to teaching our young students to love music through our repertoire and encouraging them to continue playing throughout their lives.”




Banner photo by Susan and Neil Silverman Photography
Photo of Jennifer Huang by Byron Lihan Zhao

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