John Kendall Bailey
John Kendall Bailey is the Associate Conductor of the San Francisco
Composers Chamber Orchestra, the Chorus Master of the Festival Opera of Walnut
Creek, and the Founder and Music Director of the Berkeley Lyric Opera. He has
been a guest conductor with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Oakland Youth
Orchestra, and Oakland Ballet, and music director and conductor for productions
with North Bay Opera, Goat Hall Productions, Solo Opera, the Crowden School and
Dominican University. He is also a composer, and his works have been performed
and commissioned in the Bay Area and abroad.
Mr. Bailey also maintains
a busy performance schedule as a bass-baritone, oboist, and pianist, and has
performed with the San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Oakland East Bay, Berkeley,
Redding, Napa, Sacramento, and Prometheus symphonies, American Bach Soloists,
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Midsummer Mozart and West Marin music
festivals, San Francisco Bach Choir, Coro Hispano de San Francisco, Pacific
Mozart Ensemble, California Vocal Academy, San Francisco Concerto Orchestra,
Masterworks Chorale of San Mateo, Baroque Arts Ensemble, San Francisco Korean
Master Chorale, the Master Sinfonia, the Mark Morris and Merce Cunningham dance
companies, Goat Hall Productions, Opera Piccola, the Berkeley, Golden Gate, and
Oakland Lyric Opera companies, and many other groups. He has recorded for the
Harmonia Mundi, Koch International, Pro Musica, Wildboar, Centaur, and Angelus
Music labels.
Mr. Bailey has been a pre-performance lecturer for the
Oakland East Bay Symphony and the San Francisco Opera, a critic for the San
Francisco Classical Voice, a writer of real-time commentary for the Concert
Companion, and has taught conducting at the University of California at Davis.
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