Conductor Sara Jobin Leads the Edmonton and Toledo Symphonies

Conductor SARA JOBIN Conducts the EDMONTON SYMPHONY in November and the

TOLEDO SYMPHONY in December

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Edmonton Symphony, Edmonton, Canada

Sunday Showcase featuring

Johannes Brahms:  Symphony No. 3

Antonin Dvorák: Romance in F Minor for Violin

Alexandre Guilmont:  Symphonie No. 1 for Organ and Orchestra

John McPherson: Triune (Grief/Peace/Liberation)

Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 4pm

Toledo Symphony at the Rosary Cathedral, Toledo, Ohio

Handel’s Messiah

New York, NY (November 14, 2019) – Grammy-nominated conductor, Sara Jobin’s upcoming concerts include a performance with the Edmonton Symphony, Canada, on Sunday, November 24 (2pm) and a return performance with the Toledo Symphony on December 8 (4pm).

Her Edmonton program, part of the orchestra’s Sunday Showcase series at the Winspear Centre, features works by Brahms, Dvorák, Guilmont and McPherson, joined by guest artists organist Rashaan Alwood and violinist Robert Uchida.  Ms. Jobin previously led the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra with the Edmonton Opera, and makes her Winspear Centre debut on November 24^th. 

For tickets: https://www.winspearcentre.com/tickets/?eso=false

On Sunday, December 8^th at 4pm she returns to the podium in Toledo, where for three years she served as the orchestra’s Resident Conductor, to conduct Handel’s Messiah at the Rosary Cathedral.  The TSO joins forces with the Toledo Choral Society, Terra State Choral Society, and soloists who include Alaina Brown, soprano; Katherine Pracht, mezzo-soprano; Shawn Mathey, tenor; and Keith Phares, baritone.  Handel’s Messiah is made possible through the generous support of The LaValley Foundation.  For tickets contact the TSO Box Office at 419.246.8000.

About Sara Jobin

Grammy-nominated conductor Sara Jobin, has a passion for opera, new and American repertoire, and sacred music.  Jobin has extensive experience in opera, and has broken the glass podium at several companies including the San Francisco Opera with her debut in 2004.

From Anchorage to Avignon and Szeged to Shanghai, she has championed American composers and worked with singers at all levels, from community choruses to Wagnerian soprano Nina Stemme.  She has led from the podiums of San Francisco opera, LA Opera, Arizona Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Baltimore Lyric Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Carolina, Anchorage Opera, and the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and France.  Symphonic engagements have included Symphony Silicon Valley, Dayton Philharmonic, Bochumer Symphoniker, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and three years as Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony.

Currently Artistic Director of the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York, Jobin’s future and recent-past freelance schedule includes her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a world premiere by Bruce Dessner in conjunction with Roomful of Teeth and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; Scalia/Ginsberg, an opera about a bipartisan friendship, with OperaDelaware; Center for Contemporary Opera’s spring festival; and in April 2020, Britten’s Turn of the Screw at Carnegie Mellon University and Dead Man Walking at Opera Idaho.

Sara Jobin resides in Richmond, Virginia, where she serves as Music Director for the Inayati Order in North America.  Sara Jobin at www.kaylormanagement.com/sara-jobin.htm.

Contact: Debra Kinzler ¦drkinz@gmailcom ¦347.574.2155