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  • Jimmy Biala
    Jimmy Biala
    Performing Artist: Conductor, Musician
    Jimmy Biala is a music educator and performer, with a strong passion for the style of Brazilian music known as escola de samba. Jimmy teaches Brazilian percussion music programs to youth and adult students in the South Bay Area, is a faculty member of the California Brazil Camp and San Jose Jazz Summer Education Camp, and performs regularly with the James Robinson Ensemble and Sound and Social Justice Collective. In 1997, Jimmy received an award from DownBeat Magazine for excellence in jazz recording and performance; he was the recipient of a 2002 Artist in Communities Grant from the California Arts Council, and a Meet the Composer commission grant in 2004.
  • Barbara Day Turner
    Barbara Day Turner
    Performing Artist: Conductor, Musician
    Conductor Barbara Day Turner is music director of the San José Chamber Orchestra, which she founded 20 years ago. She is an ardent advocate for new music and has commissioned and premiered more than 110 new works which have been performed by the San José Chamber Orchestra.  Maestra Day Turner is also the music administrator and conductor of the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater where she has been resident conductor for the past 10 seasons. Most recently, she led an all Gershwin concert, as well as productions of Don Giovanni and South Pacific. BDTís resumé includes most of the standard opera repertoire, ranging from the early works of the baroque to several world premieres, as well as dozens of musical theater pieces. Abroad, Maestra Day Turner has conducted at the Rheinsberg Festival in Berlin, the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra in Germany, as well as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes, Mexico. Elsewhere, in the recent past, she has conducted La Bohéme for Rimrock Opera in Montana and the Symphony Silicon Valley’s setting of The Music Man.  In her many years with Opera San José, she premiered Henry Mollicone’s Hotel Eden, Alva Henderson’s West of Washington Square, Craig Bohmler and Daniel Helfgot’s The Tale of the Nutcracker and George Roumanis’ Phaedra, besides conducting a vast repertoire of works by Handel, Cavalli, Mozart, Rossini, Puccini, Bizet, Verdi, Britten, Stravinsky, Barber and many others. Other opera venues include Portland Opera (Nixon In China) and El Paso Opera (Elixir of Love).  Her orchestral performances include concerts with the Redwood, South Valley and Billings symphonies; and the North Fayetteville orchestra. Recent appearances as guest conductor include the San José State University’s double bill of the operas The Clever Mistress by Sirota and Suor Isabella by Xavier Rodriguez; the musical leadership of Long Live Life, music from Theresienstadt; along with the release of Choose Life, with music by Mona Lyn Reese, the fifth CD released with the participation of the San José Chamber Orchestra. The Maestra’s upcoming projects include productions of Robert Ward’s The Crucible with Rimrock Opera and Gounod’s Faust, Kiss me Kate, and Girl Crazy with the Utah Festival Opera; plus numerous appearances as harpsichordist.
  • Daniel Hughes
    Daniel Hughes
    Performing Artist: Conductor
    Daniel Hughes founded The Choral Project in 1996. He is in constant demand as a conductor, accompanist, coach and choral clinician. Mr. Hughes also serves as the interim Artistic Director for the Stockton Chorale, where he conducts a symphonic chorus, a chamber choir, and oversees a youth and children’s choir program. In addition to his work with these two choirs, Hughes is the Chancel Choir Director for Los Altos United Methodist Church. Hughes has directed sessions in Vocal Pedagogy and Conducting Technique for the American Choral Directors Association, the California Music Educators’ Association, and GALA Choruses. He has been a regular adjudicator for the California Golden State Choral Competitions, and has conducted honor choirs throughout the West Coast. He regularly conducts the San José Chamber Orchestra and The Choral Project in an annual winter-themed program. Other collaborations include international performances with well-known ensembles such as Costa Rica’s Café Chorale, and creative work with award-winning Broadway composer & lyricist Stephen Schwartz. His concert appearances include performances at Lincoln Center (New York City), Gusman Concert Hall (Miami), and Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco). Hughes began studying piano and composition at the age of four. He has extensive training in piano and voice, and holds a Master of Arts degree in Conducting. In addition to his awards with The Choral Project, he is the recipient of the 2013 Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Award in the “On Stage” category for his ground-breaking contributions to the arts in Santa Clara County; a 2010 Silicon Valley Arts & Business Award; the 4th place award ~ Small Ensemble Category (35th International Choral Competition, Gorizia, Italy); the 2nd place award (ACDA National Student Conducting Competition); the Christina Cadena Memorial Accompanying Scholarship; and the California Arts Scholar Awards for piano and composition. He is an accomplished composer & arranger, and has his own choral series through Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Mr. Hughes’s biography is featured in Who’s Who in America. He maintains a private music studio in the Bay Area.
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