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Bryan Nies shares conducting duties for Opera San José's production of
Werther during the 2007 - 2008 season. Mr. Nies previously
served as Assistant Conductor for OSJ's productions of The Barber of Seville,
The Crucible and A Masked Ball. He is currently the Bruno Walter Memorial
Foundation Assistant Conductor of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the
Resident Conductor of the Oakland Youth Orchestra, which he recently led
on a tour of Australia and New Zealand during the orchestra's 40th
season. In addition, he has conducted performances for Festival Opera in
Walnut Creek and Opera Idaho, and is the founding conductor of the Oakland Chamber
Ensemble.
Pursuing an avid interest in all musical
genres, Mr. Nies recently conducted performances for the grand
re-opening of the Castro Valley Arts Center, has been an associate musical director with the
American Musical Theater of San Jose and Theatreworks, in Palo Alto, and
teaches the musical theater workshop at the San Francisco Conservatory
of Music.
In 2002, Mr. Nies
received a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to participate as a conductor
at the Tanglewood Music Center. He received his Masters degree in
Orchestral Conducting from the Peabody Conservatory, and served as
assistant conductor of the Peabody Camerata. He also holds a B.M. in
piano performance and a B.A. in Psychology from Northwestern
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