Anthony Quartuccio, a
conductor equally comfortable in the concert hall and the opera house,
conducts at Opera San Jose, is assistant conductor of the San Jose Chamber
Orchestra, and is music director of the Gavilan College / South Valley
Symphony in Silicon Valley. Quartuccio is also founding music director of
the Bay Shore Lyric Opera in Capitola, where he conducted critically
acclaimed productions including La Boheme, Rigoletto, La Nozze di Figaro, La
Traviata, and Die Fledermaus. Recently, Mr. Quartuccio's talents as an opera
conductor have become recognized nationally.
He has also conducted the Santa Clara Chorale, the Nova Vista Symphony, the
Winchester Orchestra of San Jose, the Japanese Choral Federations of
Northern and Southern California, and has served as assistant/rehearsal
conductor for Vladimir Spivakov and the Monterey Symphony Orchestra.
Quartuccio is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia,
where he obtained a fellowship to study conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller,
director of orchestral studies at Curtis and the Julliard School, and was
awarded a personal career grant from David Packard, benefactor of the
Packard Foundation, for advanced conducting studies.
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