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| . | John Kendall Bailey is Music Director, Principal Conductor and Chorus
Master of Trinity Lyric Opera, Music Director and Conductor of Voices of Musica
Sacra, Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,
and Artistic Director of the San Francisco Song Festival. In 1994, Mr. Bailey founded the Berkeley Lyric Opera and served as its Music Director and Conductor until 2001. Since then he has been a guest conductor with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, American Philharmonic-Sonoma County, Diablo Symphony Orchestra, Mesopotamia Symphony Orchestra, Oakland Ballet, Oakland Youth Orchestra, Gottschalk Music Center Orchestra, and has conducted productions for Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, West Bay Opera, North Bay Opera, Pocket Opera, Mission City Opera, the Crowden School, Dominican University, Thick Description, Goat Hall Productions, Opera Frontier, Solo Opera, Shoebox Opera, and Golden State Theater Productions. Mr. Bailey has taught conducting at the University of California at Davis and Notre Dame de Namur University. Highlights of the 2010-2011 season include conducting several works by Bernard Herrmann, in celebration of his centenary, including performances of his cantata Moby Dick with the American Philharmonic-Sonoma County. As a choral director, Mr. Bailey served as Chorus Master of the Festival Opera of Walnut Creek from 2002-2006, Chorus Master for Opera San Jose in 2009, and has been guest conductor for the University of California-Berkeley Chamber Chorus, the University of California-Davis Chorus, Chamber Singers, and Alumni Chorus, and the Berkeley Broadway Singers. Mr. Bailey is also a composer, 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, and numerous other ensembles throughout the Bay Area. He has been a pre-performance lecturer for the Oakland East Bay Symphony, San Francisco Opera, American Bach Soloists and Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, a critic for the San Francisco Classical Voice, and a writer of real-time commentary for the Concert Companion. |