Sara Jobin
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photo credit: Joey Wharton and Rachel Boxley
Bio
One of the most experienced female American opera conductors working today, Sara Jobin broke the glass podium at San Francisco Opera, Arizona Opera and Baltimore Lyric Opera. Admittedly fed up with opera plots where women so often die to sustain the patriarchy, Jobin found a niche in contemporary opera early on, championing contemporary American works from Anchorage to Avignon, Szeged to Shanghai. For a decade she served as principal conductor for the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York and is now conductor emeritus.
She has led from the podiums of San Francisco Opera (7 mainstage performances of four different productions, plus leading two complete productions out of house), LA Opera (Broad Stage), Arizona Opera, Wolf Trap Opera (GRAMMY nomination), Pittsburgh Opera (Young Artists), Baltimore Lyric Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Carolina, Anchorage Opera, Opera Idaho, OperaDelaware, Toledo Opera, and the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and France. Symphonic engagements include a world premiere in Disney Hall with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; three years as Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony with over 35 concerts a year; Edmonton Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Symphony Silicon Valley, and children's concerts with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Bochumer Symphoniker in Germany.
During the COVID pandemic, Jobin morphed into a digital producer, and inadvertently made her virtual Carnegie Hall debut. In September 2020 she produced the Zoom cinematic premiere of Noor Inayat Khan's Aède of the Ocean and Land, directed by Elli Papakonstantinou of the ODC Ensemble in Athens, and composer Shirish Korde, with an international cast performing live, in five countries across ten time zones. In November she was broadcast during the Carnegie Hall Live tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, conducting the duet “We are different, we are one” from Derrick Wang’s comedy Scalia/Ginsburg.
Concerned about our Earth’s climate, Jobin seeks to aid a cultural shift from jet set mentality to one that values carbon responsibility. Jobin’s fully vaccinated season includes Dead Man Walking with Opera Idaho, a concert with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, and several new opera workshops and outdoor concerts. She resides in Richmond, Virginia, home to the Inayatiyya, a Sufi organization founded on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Her talent is in service to projects that increase the peace, respect the planet, open people’s minds, and bring us together.
September 2022
She has led from the podiums of San Francisco Opera (7 mainstage performances of four different productions, plus leading two complete productions out of house), LA Opera (Broad Stage), Arizona Opera, Wolf Trap Opera (GRAMMY nomination), Pittsburgh Opera (Young Artists), Baltimore Lyric Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Carolina, Anchorage Opera, Opera Idaho, OperaDelaware, Toledo Opera, and the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and France. Symphonic engagements include a world premiere in Disney Hall with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; three years as Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony with over 35 concerts a year; Edmonton Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Symphony Silicon Valley, and children's concerts with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Bochumer Symphoniker in Germany.
During the COVID pandemic, Jobin morphed into a digital producer, and inadvertently made her virtual Carnegie Hall debut. In September 2020 she produced the Zoom cinematic premiere of Noor Inayat Khan's Aède of the Ocean and Land, directed by Elli Papakonstantinou of the ODC Ensemble in Athens, and composer Shirish Korde, with an international cast performing live, in five countries across ten time zones. In November she was broadcast during the Carnegie Hall Live tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, conducting the duet “We are different, we are one” from Derrick Wang’s comedy Scalia/Ginsburg.
Concerned about our Earth’s climate, Jobin seeks to aid a cultural shift from jet set mentality to one that values carbon responsibility. Jobin’s fully vaccinated season includes Dead Man Walking with Opera Idaho, a concert with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, and several new opera workshops and outdoor concerts. She resides in Richmond, Virginia, home to the Inayatiyya, a Sufi organization founded on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Her talent is in service to projects that increase the peace, respect the planet, open people’s minds, and bring us together.
September 2022