Conductor Steven Jarvi has been appointed Interim Artistic Director of the Charlottesville Opera for the 2018 Season.  Conductor Steven Jarvi is well known to Charlottesville Opera audiences having conducted their summer opera for the past eight years. 

Maestro Jarvi recently completed his tenure as the Resident Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony and Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra.  He won the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award while the Associate Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony, and previously served as the Conducting Fellow with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, an Associate Conductor for New York City Opera at Lincoln Center, and the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Conductor with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center.