Maestra Rakefet Hak is a conductor, music director, coach, and pianist whose career on the podium is gaining momentum, with recent and upcoming engagements in both standard and contemporary opera repertoire. This season, she conducts The Turn of the Screw at UCLA and Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters at the Manhattan School of Music, a piece...
British vocal coach Paul Plummer is the Studienleiter at the Staatstheater in Oldenburg, where he also is the head vocal coach of the newly formed Opera Studio.
Arthur Fagen has been the Music Director of the Atlanta Opera since 2010 and is Professor of Orchestral Conducting at Indiana University.
Robert Meffe, Head of the SDSU MFA Musical Theatre Program, spent twenty-two years in New York City as a professional conductor, music director, keyboardist, orchestrator, arranger and music copyist.
J. David Jackson gained critical acclaim leading the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in performances of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice staring Anthony Roth Costanzo. He returns to the Met this season for Die Zauberflöte.
Conductor Neal Goren is the Founder and Artistic Director of Catapult Opera and a faculty member of the prestigious Mannes School of Music.
Jane Robinson is Head of Vocal Coaching and Development for the Harewood Artists at English National Opera, London.
