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Jindong Cai
Jindong Cai makes his West Bay Opera debut as the conductor for The Merry Widow. His opera conducting debut took place at Lincoln Center’s Mozart Bicentennial Festival in New York in 1992, when he appeared as a last minute substitute for the world premiere of a new production of Mozart’s Zaide. Since then, he has conducted near 20 opera productions.
Maestro Cai holds the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies Chair at Stanford University. He has held conducting positions with the Cincinnati Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and served on the faculties at UC Berkeley, College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, University of Arizona, and Louisiana State University. He maintains strong ties to China and has conducted most its top orchestras. He has also guest conducted many orchestras in the United States and abroad.
Mr. Cai received his early musical training in China and is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. He studied with Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Center’s Young Conductor’s Program, and won the Conducting Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival. He is co-author of Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese.
