Maestra Barbara Day Turner is the founder and music director of the San José Chamber Orchestra. An ardent advocate for new music, she has premiered more than 110 new works just with San José Chamber Orchestra. Maestra Day Turner is also Music Administrator and Conductor of the Utah Festival Opera where she has been resident conductor for the past 11 seasons. Most recently she led the Festival’s orchestra in an all Gershwin concert as well as productions of
Don Giovanni and
Faust. Her resumé includes most of the standard repertoire of operas ranging from the early works of the baroque to Verdi and Puccini, and several world premieres, as well as dozens of musical theater pieces. Abroad, Maestra Day Turner has conducted opera in Berlin and conducted the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra in Germany as well as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes, Mexico. Elsewhere and in the recent past, she has conducted
La bohème for Rimrock Opera in Montana, and the Symphony Silicon Valley’s setting of
The Music Man. Maestra Turner’s discography includes five recordings with SJCO, the PBS award-winning DVD of George Roumanis’ opera
Phaedra, the Naxos release of Alva Henderson’s opera
Nosferatu, and an upcoming Naxos recording of varied works by Howard Hersh. In her many years with Opera San José she premiered Henry Mollicone’s
Hotel Eden, Alva Henderson’s
West of Washington Square, Craig Bohmler and Daniel Helfgot’s
The Tale of the Nutcracker and George Roumanis’
Phaedra besides conducting a vast repertoire of works by Handel, Cavalli, Mozart, Rossini, Puccini, Bizet, Verdi, Britten, Stravinsky, Barber and many others. She has conducted Portland Opera’s
Nixon In China, El Paso’s
Elixir of Love and concerts with the Redwood, South Valley and Billings symphonies and the North Fayetteville orchestra. Also, as guest conductor, she led the San José State University’s double bill of the operas
The Clever Mistress by Sirota and
Suor Isabella by Xavier Rodriguez. Other recent appearances include the productions of
The Crucible,
South Pacific,
Kiss Me Kate and
Girl Crazy. The Maestra’s upcoming projects include productions of
Aida with Rimrock Opera and 4 more premieres with SJCO.
UFOMT PAST SEASONS |
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2012 |
Conductor, Kiss Me Kate |
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Conductor, Faust |
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2011 |
Conductor, South Pacific |
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Conductor, Don Giovanni |
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2010 |
Conductor, The Sound of Music |
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Conductor, The Barber of Seville |
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2009 |
Conductor, Camelot |
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Conductor, Carmen |
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2008 |
Conductor, Gypsy |
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Conductor, Manon Lescaut |
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2007 |
Conductor, Show Boat |
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Conductor, Porgy & Bess |
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2006 |
Conductor, The Music Man |
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Conductor, The Marriage of Figaro |
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2005 |
Conductor, Annie Get Your Gun |
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Conductor, Turandot |
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2004 |
Conductor, The Secret Garden |
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2003 |
Conductor, The Wizard of Oz |
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Conductor, Madama Butterfly |
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2002 |
Conductor, Die Fledermaus |
