JORGE PARODI

Reviewed as having "the most expressive conducting hands since Stokowski" by the New York Daily News, Maestro Parodi has worked extensively in North America, Latin America and Asia. Some of Maestro Jorge Parodi credits include New York City Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Opera Tampa, Chautauqua Opera, Opera Orlando, the Castleton Festival, The Juilliard School, The Banff Centre, and Buenos Aires Lírica. He led the World Premiéres of Anton Coppola’s Lady Swanwhite for Opera Tampa, Michael Ching’s The Birthday Clown for Savannah OPERA; and John Musto’s Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt in a coproduction of On Site Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Pittsburgh Opera. In the last three seasons he made his debut at Amarillo Opera; Gulfshore Opera with Tosca; the Merola Program for their Schwabacher Summer Concert; New Orleans Opera with Charlie Parker’s Yardbird; El Paso Opera with La Traviata; Knoxville Opera with Fastaff; and Opera San José with Rigoletto.

Jorge Parodi has worked with a wide range of ensembles, as the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Michoacán (Mexico), the NHK Symphony (Japan), and the Orquesta del Conservatorio Nacional (Argentina) among others. He has worked with such companies as the Teatro Colón in Argentina, the Volgograd Opera in Russia, and the International Vocal Arts Institute in Israel. He has collaborated with such artists as Isabel Leonard, Nancy Herrera, Tito Capobianco, Sherrill Milnes, and Verónica Villarroel; and has assisted conductors Lorin Maazel and Julius Rudel, among others.

Mr. Parodi in the new Music Director of the Moores Opera Center and Assistant Director of Orchestras at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston.
Primary responsibilities include collaborating with the Artistic Director of the Opera Center and the Director of Orchestral Studies, to serve the myriad orchestras at the Moores School of Music and the Moores Opera Center, and to teach conducting to undergraduate and graduate students.

Maestro Parodi is the General and Artistic Director of Opera Hispánica, the premier company in the United Sates focused on the Hispanic vocal repertoire and on the Latin perspective; and the Music Director of Gulfshore Opera and Opera in Williamsburg.

Mr. Parodi has been a faculty member at The Juilliard School for over two decades and he is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Tokyo International Vocal Arts Academy. Maestro Parodi has been Artistic Director of the Savannah VOICE Festival, and he was the Music Director of the Senior Opera Theatre at the Manhattan School of Music. His work with Manhattan was showcased in a feature interview in Opera News.

He has offered master classes at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Manhattan School of Music, the Escuela Superior de Canto (Madrid), the Kunitachi Music College (Tokyo), and Senzoku Gakuen Music College (Tokyo).

Mr. Parodi completed studies in Conducting and Piano Performance at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música of Buenos Aires, and he holds a Master’s degree from the University of Michigan. He recorded with Denon Essentials, Albany Records and MSR Classics.