Sara Jobin
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photo credit: Joey Wharton and Rachel Boxley
Bio
GRAMMY-nominated conductor Sara Jobin has extensive experience in opera, including breaking 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 has consistently championed contemporary American works from Anchorage to Avignon, Szeged to Shanghai. After a decade as principal conductor of the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York she has taken the title Music Director Emerita, while continuing to freelance.
She has led from the podiums of San Francisco Opera (seventeen performances of six productions), LA Opera (Broad Stage), Arizona Opera, Pittsburgh Opera (Young Artists), Baltimore Lyric Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Carolina, Anchorage Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Idaho (Made in America series), OperaDelaware, Toledo Opera, and the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and France. Symphonic engagements include three years as Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony with over 35 concerts a year; her Disney Hall premiere with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Edmonton Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Symphony Silicon Valley, and children's concerts with the Bochumer Symphoniker and Orchestra of St. Luke's.
During covid Jobin morphed into a digital producer. She produced Noor Inayat Khan's Aède of the Ocean and Land in September 2020, directed by Elli Papakonstantinou of the ODC Ensemble in Athens, with music by Shirish Korde and an international cast performing live, in five countries across ten time zones. In November 2020 she made her virtual Carnegie Hall debut during the Carnegie Hall Live tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broadcast conducting the duet “We are different, we are one” from Derrick Wang’s comedy Scalia/Ginsburg. Since covid, after leading an outdoor concert for Salt Marsh Opera, she returned to Opera Idaho for Dead Man Walking, conducted a subscription concert with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra in Iowa, and led Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s “We the Innumerable” for CCO at National Sawdust in New York. Jobin also returned to Carnegie Mellon University, whose Turn of the Screw production had been interrupted by covid, and led a production of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis. She is currently working on a workshop of The Little Rock Nine, with librettist Thulani Davis and composer Bernadette Speach.
Jobin woke up to the climate crisis in 2006 and seeks to explore environmental responsibility in classical music. Through an Innovation Grant awarded to CCO from Opera America, she hosted a panel discussion with opera companies leading on sustainability, now featured on the Opera America website. She comes from a multiracial, multifaith family and her talent is in service to projects that increase the peace, respect the planet, open people’s minds, and bring us together.
July 2023
She has led from the podiums of San Francisco Opera (seventeen performances of six productions), LA Opera (Broad Stage), Arizona Opera, Pittsburgh Opera (Young Artists), Baltimore Lyric Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Carolina, Anchorage Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Idaho (Made in America series), OperaDelaware, Toledo Opera, and the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and France. Symphonic engagements include three years as Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony with over 35 concerts a year; her Disney Hall premiere with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Edmonton Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Symphony Silicon Valley, and children's concerts with the Bochumer Symphoniker and Orchestra of St. Luke's.
During covid Jobin morphed into a digital producer. She produced Noor Inayat Khan's Aède of the Ocean and Land in September 2020, directed by Elli Papakonstantinou of the ODC Ensemble in Athens, with music by Shirish Korde and an international cast performing live, in five countries across ten time zones. In November 2020 she made her virtual Carnegie Hall debut during the Carnegie Hall Live tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broadcast conducting the duet “We are different, we are one” from Derrick Wang’s comedy Scalia/Ginsburg. Since covid, after leading an outdoor concert for Salt Marsh Opera, she returned to Opera Idaho for Dead Man Walking, conducted a subscription concert with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra in Iowa, and led Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s “We the Innumerable” for CCO at National Sawdust in New York. Jobin also returned to Carnegie Mellon University, whose Turn of the Screw production had been interrupted by covid, and led a production of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis. She is currently working on a workshop of The Little Rock Nine, with librettist Thulani Davis and composer Bernadette Speach.
Jobin woke up to the climate crisis in 2006 and seeks to explore environmental responsibility in classical music. Through an Innovation Grant awarded to CCO from Opera America, she hosted a panel discussion with opera companies leading on sustainability, now featured on the Opera America website. She comes from a multiracial, multifaith family and her talent is in service to projects that increase the peace, respect the planet, open people’s minds, and bring us together.
July 2023