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José Luis Moscovich
José Luis Moscovich, the conductor for Der fliegende Holländer, has been General Director of West Bay Opera since 2006. For the preceding nine years he was music director and conductor of the San Francisco Camerata, the only professional orchestra in the US devoted exclusively to the music of Latin American composers. Prior to that, he was principal guest conductor of the Bay Area Concerto Ensemble. He has also appeared with the Concerto Orchestra, the ARTEA orchestra, the Marin Chamber Orchestra, the UCSF Orchestra, the Nova Vista Orchestra, and a number of other ensembles. In 2005 he was invited to open West Bay Opera’s 50th season with Die Zauberfloete. Most recently he conducted West Bay Opera’s production of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci and Opera Idaho’s production of L’elisir d’amore to critical acclaim. He has also conducted at the Teatro El Círculo Opera House in Rosario, Argentina. During 2007 he taught a master class in opera performance at the Beijing Conservatory in China. Maestro Moscovich has considerable experience as a choral conductor. He was music director of the San Francisco Women’s Chorus, conductor of the San Francisco Jewish Folk Chorus, and assistant conductor of the San Francisco Choral Society. He wrote the libretto and conducted the fully-staged premiere of Corpus Evita, an opera by composer Carlos Franzetti. He also conducted the San Francisco Camerata in the recording of that work for Amapola Records. The work was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2005. His other recording with the Camerata is a CD of Latin American orchestral music, for Klavier Records, which has been featured in radio broadcasts on both coasts, including KKHI and KDFC in San Francisco, and WNYC in New York, as well as in Brazil, Argentina and Australia. Maestro Moscovich was trained as a clarinetist and conductor in his native Argentina, where he studied at the National Conservatory in Rosario. Selected by the American Symphony Orchestra League, also he trained under Lorin Maazel, Lawrence Leighton-Smith, and the late Maurice Abravanel. He has resided in the United States since 1981.
