Concerts

About Daniel Canosa, Artistic Director

On Saturday, June 20th, 2009, join the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony for Summer Love: Celebrating the Perfect Union, an Official SF Pride Event, at First Unitarian Universalist Church in SF under the baton of Daniel Canosa, Artistic Director, and Jessica Bejarano, Guest Conductor. Music selections include:

1. Candide Overture — Bernstein
   

2. Adagio for Strings – Barber
   An American in Paris – Gershwin
   

3. Introduction & Love Music from
   The Tenderland Suite – Copland
   

4. West Side Story Symphonic Dances – Bernstein

1. Directions are available to First Unitarian Universalist Church.

With a repertoire of symphonic and choral masterworks of all periods, Argentina-born conductor Daniel Canosa, considered one of the best of his generation, has lead orchestras and choruses in Argentina, the United States, and Europe. In Buenos Aires, he founded and directed the highly-praised Conjunto Egmont. In California since 1990, Mr. Canosa has conducted the Apollo Orchestra, Auburn Symphony Orchestra, and Camilla Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2001, his all-Beethoven program with the Auburn Symphony received recognition: “Pluck is what it takes to tackle Beethoven… Canosa’s careful conducting shepherded the orchestra in the right directions… [and] proved commanding [in] Symphony No. 7, landing its attacks, severe cutoffs, and varied dynamics like a gymnast in fine form.” (Patricia Beach Smith, Sacramento Bee.)

In 1996 Canosa deepened his involvement with period-instrument ensembles as music director of the Nieuw Amsterdam Barokorkest en Koor, touring extensively in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. On his return to California, he founded the well-received Apollo Baroque Orchestra, a first for the Sierra Foothills, and in Sacramento, the Camerata California. Canosa’s research into ancient music of classical Greece informed his original musical scores for the Greek dramas Alcestis, Philoctetes, and Iphigeia in Tauris, performed by Apollo Theater.

Canosa studied composition and orchestral conducting at the Argentine Catholic University and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He studied Baroque repertoire under Argentine maestro Sergio Siminovich in Buenos Aires and conductor Nicholas McGegan in Berkeley, California. His formation includes courses at the Mozarteum Conservatory in Salzburg, and in Munich and Paris with the legendary Sergiu Celibidache, music director of the Munich Philharmonic. An extended biographical reference to him appears in the book Careers in the Music Industry, Career Role Models for Young Adults (Mitchell Lane, publishers).

About Jessica Bejarano, Guest Conductor

Jessica Bejarano has just entered her first season as Assistant Conductor of the Peninsula Symphony, Artistic Director of the Sacramento Gay Mens Chorus, Music Director of GLAM Youth Choir in San Francisco and Assistant Conductor of the Community Women's Orchestra in Oakland.  Ms. Bejarano received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Wyoming and her Master of Arts in Conducting from the University of California Davis.  As an active member of the Conductors' Guild, Ms. Bejarano has attended the 2005-2008 annual conferences and various Conductors' Guild training workshops.  Just this April, Ms. Bejarano was an active participant in a master class given by Leon Fleisher and the University of California Davis Symphony Orchestra.

During the summer of 2007, Ms. Bejarano attended the International Academy of Advanced Conducting in Saint Petersburg, Russia where she received “Honorable Mention” for her performance with the Classical Symphony Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Ms. Bejarano was invited back by the Academy to continue her studies and conduct a performance in Urbino, Italy during the summer of 2008.  During the same summer Ms. Bejarano also attended the International Institute for Conductors in Bacau, Romania and conducted The Philharmonic Orchestra “Mihail Jora” of Bacau in two performances. 

Ms. Bejarano has served as Music Director of the Davis Summer Symphony, Assistant Conductor to the University of California Davis Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the University Chorus and Chamber Singers at the University of California Davis.  She has also conducted the Beloit Community Orchestra, the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, the Classical Symphony Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the Philharmonic Orchestra “Mihail Jora” of Bacau, Romania.