Jennifer Peterson

Born in Anchorage, Alaska, American conductor, pianist and harpsichordist Jennifer Peterson is respected for her informed and spirited interpretations in a wide range of musical styles, including opera, early music, new music, chamber music and art song repertoire. She has been Chorus Master with the Des Moines Metro Opera for the past two seasons and has also held positions in both the United States and internationally with numerous opera companies, including the New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Florida Grand Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Opera Memphis, Connecticut Opera, and the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv.

Ms. Peterson has collaborated extensively with living composers on new works and is currently the Music Director for the Composers & the Voice Workshop Series with American Opera Projects in Brooklyn, New York. She is also actively involved in the field of Historically Informed Performance.

While she is not working in opera, she is performing with the baroque trio Galileo’s Daughters with Mary Anne Ballard on viola da gamba and the versatile soprano Sarah Pillow. Galileo’s Daughters has performed highly-praised concerts in New York City, at the Boston Early Music Festival, at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and at the University of Notre Dame.

Jennifer grew up in Eugene, Oregon, where she studied piano from the age of five and violin from the age of eight. She received further musical training from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where in 1988 she completed her undergraduate degree in both violin and piano performance in the studios of violinist Marilyn McDonald and pianist Peter Takács. She then attended the Indiana University School of Music where she received a Masters Degree in Piano Performance in the studio of pianist and chamber musician Enrica Cavallo-Gulli, and simultaneously began her opera career as a vocal coach with the Indiana University Opera Theatre. She then spent three years in Rochester, New York, completing doctoral work at the Eastman School of Music and co-founding the Rochester Chamber Opera in 1992. Ms. Peterson’s conducting instructors have included Michel Singher and Paul Nadler. She currently resides in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York.

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