Joseph Marcheso returns during the 2009 - 2010 season to conduct performances of Manon and to share conducting duties in La Cenerentola. Mr. Marcheso has previously served as assistant conductor for OSJ productions of The Elixir of Love and Lucia di Lammermoor.

He has conducted more than 30 operas  with Amato Opera in his native NYC where he was appointed Music Director, and served as conductor and coach at both the Shaker Festival/Albany Symphony and at the Dartington Festival in Dartington, England.  Mr. Marcheso graduated from Dartmouth College and San Francisco Conservatory where he studied conducting with Michael Morgan.