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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
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