John Kendall Bailey - Oakland East Bay Symphony

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="5" WIDTH="650" STYLE="border-collapse: collapse" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <TR ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP"> <TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="20"></TD> <TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP"><FONT FACE="Arial"><BR><B>J O H N   K E N D A L L   B A I L E Y</B></FONT></TD> <TD ALIGN="RIGHT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="125" ROWSPAN="2"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/johnbailey.JPG" ALT="John Kendall Bailey" ALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="154" BORDER="0"><BR><BR><BR><BR> </TD> </TR> <TR ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP"> <TD ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="20"><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF">.</FONT></TD> <TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="+2" COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT COLOR="#000000"></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">John Kendall Bailey is Principal Conductor and Chorus Master of the Trinity Lyric Opera, Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Music Director and Conductor of Voices of Musica Sacra, and Artistic Director of the San Francisco Song Festival. In 1994, Mr. Bailey founded the Berkeley Lyric Opera and served as its Music Director and Conductor until 2001. Since then he has been a guest conductor with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Oakland Youth Orchestra, and Oakland Ballet, and music director and conductor for productions with North Bay Opera, Mission City Opera, Goat Hall Productions, Solo Opera, the Crowden School and Dominican University. From 2002-2006 he was the Chorus Master of the Festival Opera of Walnut Creek. Mr. Bailey is also a composer, and his works have been performed and commissioned in the Bay Area and abroad. <BR><BR>Mr. Bailey also maintains a busy performance schedule as a bass-baritone, oboist, and pianist, and has performed with the San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Oakland East Bay, Berkeley, Redding, Napa, Sacramento, and Prometheus symphonies, American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Midsummer Mozart and West Marin music festivals, as well as with San Francisco Bach Choir, Coro Hispano de San Francisco, Pacific Mozart Ensemble, California Vocal Academy, San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, Masterworks Chorale of San Mateo, Baroque Arts Ensemble, San Francisco Korean Master Chorale, the Master Sinfonia, the Mark Morris and Merce Cunningham dance companies, Goat Hall Productions, Opera Piccola, the Berkeley, Golden Gate, and Oakland Lyric Opera companies, and many other groups. He has recorded for the Harmonia Mundi, Koch International, Pro Musica, Wildboar, Centaur, and Angelus Music labels. <BR><BR>Mr. Bailey has been a pre-performance lecturer for Oakland East Bay Symphony and San Francisco Opera, a critic for San Francisco Classical Voice, a writer of real-time commentary for the Concert Companion, and has taught conducting at the University of California at Davis . </FONT></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY>