Peter Jacoby
Music Director, Edythe Bates Old Moores Opera Center

e-mail: pfjacoby@uh.edu
office: MSM 188
office phone: (713)743-3159
address: 120 School of Music Bldg, Houston, TX 77204-4017
visit also: www.peterjacoby.com

Education: B.M. magna cum laude, University of Wyoming, 1969; Diploma in Orchestral Conducting, Akademie fur Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 1975; studies with Victor Babin, Arthur Loesser, Fernando Valenti, and Eleanor Steber, Cleveland Institute of Music, 1966-67.

Positions: Coach, Vienna Statsoper Studio (Swarovsky), 1974-75; Opera coach/conductor, AIMS, Graz, Austria, 1975; Coach/conductor, Zurich Opera Studio, Zurich, Switzerland, 1976-77; General Manager, Pocket Opera Company, San Francisco, 1977-81; Music Director, Open Stage Opera, Ft. Collins, CO, 1981-88; Music Director, Moores Opera Center, Moores School of Music, Univesity of Houston, Houston, TX, 1991-present.

Performances: AIMS, Graz, Austria: Don Giovanni Tenorio (Gazzaniga); Zuerich Opera Studio: Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Seville; Open Stage Opera: Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute, Barber of Seville, Carmen, Faust, La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Die Fledermaus; Moores Opera Center: Alcina, Il Matimonio Secreto, Marriage of Figaro, Magic Flute, Clemenza di Tito, Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, Falstaff, La Boheme, Gianni Schicchi, La Rondine, Secret of Susanna, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Fledermaus, Tales of Hoffman, Dialogues of the Carmelites, L'Enfant et les Sortileges, Ballad of Baby Doe, La vida breve, The Consul, The Medium, Turn of the Screw, Albert Herring, Peter Grimes, Aufstief und Falll der Stadt Mahagonny, Ghosts of Versailles, Bilby's Doll, a Room with a View, Gondoliers, Showboat, Into the Woods; Ebony Opera (Houston): Trouble in Tahiti, The Medium.