Joseph Walsh

Conductor

Joseph Walsh returns to the Amalfi Coast Music Festival to conduct Mozart's The Magic Flute in celebration of the 250 th anniversary of the composer's birth, after making his European conducting debut last summer leading Puccini's Gianni Schicchi with performances in Salerno, Amalfi and Minori, Italy. Mr. Walsh currently serves as Assistant Artistic Director at Virginia Opera, an established American regional opera company known and respected nationwide for the identification and presentation of the finest young artists, for the musical and dramatic integrity of its productions, and for the ingenuity and variety of its education and outreach programs. He has conducted the student and Richmond public performances of Virginia Opera's production of The Marriage of Figaro and the final performance of La Traviata this season and has also conducted The Merry Widow and The Magic Flute at Virginia Opera. Since joining the company in 1995, Mr. Walsh has been involved in the musical preparation for more than thirty Virginia Opera productions. He has been instrumental in the development of the company's Spectrum Resident Artist Program, an intensive training program for young artists and co-founded the company's STAR program (Student Training and Artistic Residency), an internship for gifted vocal students from The Governor's School for the Arts. He recently judged the Middle Eastern District of the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions in Washington D.C. and has served on the coaching faculties of Temple University in Philadelphia and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. He regularly offers master classes at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Vocal Program
Vocal Program, Faculty