JENNIFER PETERSON, conductor, vocal coach curriculum vitae

+1 917 520 3163, operajen@yahoo.com operamission.org

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Currently director of operamission, founded in New York City in 2008. Produced and conducted operas, concerts, and annual cabaret evenings. Presentations to date:

2018 Handel Warehouse – twelve hours of workshops, classes, open rehearsals, and mini-performance 2017 'Behind the Mind' – The Cabaret Songs of William Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein, Duplex Cabaret Theatre OPERA America's New Works Forum – Clint Borzoni's When Adonis Calls 2016 53rd Street Handel – five monthly original Handel mini-pastiches at the 53rd Street New York Public Library G. F. Handel's Rinaldo, Merkin Concert Hall 2015 'To Lie With Him' – music of Clint Borzoni: workshop reading of When Adonis Calls (chamber opera) and world

premiere performance of the song cycle Earth, My Likeness Artist Recital Series – series of three art song recitals: music of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann,

Brahms, Grieg, Strauss, Wolf, Berlioz, and Debussy A Countertenor Cabaret (14 countertenors) at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre 2014 Workshop and recording of Bruce Wolosoff's The Great Good Thing (full-length opera) G. F. Handel's Agrippina, Fabbri Mansion 'FURIOSO: an Evening of Handel Opera' in Bloomington, Indiana 'Handeljam' – ornamentation workshops, at the Gershwin Hotel 2013 G. F. Handel's Rodrigo (North American Premiere), Gershwin Hotel 'New Cabaret' and Cabaret Song Composition Contest held on Twitter Workshop with orchestra of Clint Borzoni's Antinous and Hadrian (full-length opera) 2012 'Pierrot 100' at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium G. F. Handel's Almira, Königin von Castilien (North American Premiere), Gershwin Hotel 'a Poulenc Cabaret' at the Gershwin Hotel 2011 Figaro al fresco, a comic cliffhanger – Acts I & II of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Bryant Park Fall Festival Puccini's La Bohème: Assembly Required, Gershwin Hotel Defining classics – Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, Gershwin Hotel 'kurt weill uncovered: in cabaret' at the Gershwin Hotel 2010 Franz Schubert's Winterreise, Gershwin Hotel Così fan tutte: Some Assembly Required, Gershwin Hotel OPERA IN FLIGHT: new scenes & one-acts – music by Clint Borzoni, Edward Ficklin, George Flynn, and Stephen

Andrew Taylor, at the Gershwin Hotel HANDEL at the Gershwin 2009 'Keith Jameson / Cabaret Songs' at the Gershwin Hotel HANDEL at the Gershwin it is my song that's flown... all new music

Previous engagements as conductor, chorus master, vocal coach, pianist, harpsichordist, guest clinician: American Lyric Theater, American Opera Projects, Anchorage Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute, Berkshire Opera Festival, Boheme Opera New Jersey, Bronx Opera, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Bucknell Opera Theatre, Center for Contemporary Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Connecticut Opera, Delaware Valley Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Dicapo Opera Theatre, Eastman Opera Theatre, Eastman School of Music, Eugene Opera, Galileo's Daughters, Gotham Chamber Opera, Greater Miami Opera, Hunter College, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Opera Theater, Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, International Vocal Arts Institute, Kentucky Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Luther College, Memphis Symphony Orchestra (violinist and keyboardist), Metro Lyric Opera of New Jersey, Metropolitan Opera Council (judge, Arkansas District), Mississippi Opera, New Opera Theatre Ensemble of Scotland, New York City Opera, New York Repertory Ensemble, Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, On Site Opera, Opera Idaho, Opera Manhattan, Opera Memphis, Opera Noire of New York, Opera Northeast, Opera on Tap, Opera Orchestra of New York, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Opera Theatre of Rochester, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, operamission, Rochester Chamber Opera, Seagle Music Colony, Skidmore College, St. John's College (Annapolis, MD), Téâtro Grattacielo, Toledo Opera, University of Arkansas, University of Connecticut, University of Memphis, University of Mississippi, Virginia Opera, Vertical Player Repertory, Virginia Symphony (violinist and keyboardist), Vital Theatre Company.

Education:

Bachelor of Music, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, 1988 Double Major: Piano and Violin Performance Master of Music, Indiana University School of Music, 1990 Major: Piano Performance; Cognate Field: Music Theory Doctor of Musical Arts, Eastman School of Music, 1990-'92 (in progress) Major: Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music; Minor: Opera Coaching

Languages:

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish – Language and Diction familiarity with Czech and Russian

Biography:

Conductor, pianist, and harpsichordist JENNIFER PETERSON is the director of operamission, an arts organization bringing opera, chamber music, art song, and cabaret to audiences. Future operamission presentations and plans can be followed at operamission.org. Currently underway are productions of the complete output of G. F. Handel's 39 Italian operas, along with workshops and development of new operas, annual cabaret evenings, and all varieties of repertoire.

Ms. Peterson has appeared at over seventy-five opera companies in the United States and internationally, including the New York City Opera, Opera Memphis, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Des Moines Metro Opera, and the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel. She received her musical training at the Oberlin College-Conservatory of Music, the Indiana University School of Music, and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she co-founded the Rochester Chamber Opera.

Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Jennifer grew up on the west coast and has been residing in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, since 1997 while maintaining an active vocal coaching studio in midtown Manhattan.

Repertoire and References available upon request.

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