Associate
Conductor
Anthony Quartuccio has served as assistant conductor of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra since 2004. In the current season, he served as principal conductor for Opera San Jose’s company premiere of The Crucible, and remains as a member of the conducting staff there. Additional appearances this season and next include La Boheme and Don Giovanni with Opera San Jose, and Madamma Butterfly with the Rimrock Opera in Montana, and orchestral concerts with the South Valley Symphony (CA) and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra.
Quartuccio’s opera repertoire includes Falstaff, La Cenerentola,
Cvalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Il Trovatore, and Don Pasquale with
Opera San Jose, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Traviata,
Die Fledermaus and Rigoletto with the Bay Shore Lyric Opera (CA)
where is served as founding music director from 1996 to 2002. During the
inaugural season of the California Theater in San Jose in 2004, Quartuccio
shared conducting duties for all inaugural productions Le nozze di Figaro,
Tosca, Carmen and The Flying Dutchman.
Quartuccio is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller. While at Curtis, he served as an assistant to Max Rudolf and while completing studies in conducting, piano and music theory. As a student conductor he participated in master classes and seminars with some of the world’s leading conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Andre Previn, Kurt Masur and David Zinman. He made his professional conducting debut at age twenty-two leading the Spokane Symphony Orchestra in a highly praised performance of Copland’s El Salon Mexico under the tutelage of Gunther Schuller. Soon after he was appointed as assistant conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, an apprentice position created for him. Subsequent studies include work training at the International Workshop for Conductors in the Czech Republic, coaching with Gustav Meier and the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, and classes at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Quartuccio is a diverse instrumentalist, which include early studies in trumpet, piano, accordion and violin. He has made numerous appearances around the country, including some with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, the Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra, the Curtis Institute Symphony Orchestra, The Santa Cruz Symphony, The Brevard Music Festival Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony.
