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About

Ezra Calvino has been recognized for their insight, clarity, and sensitivity as a conductor, violist, and chamber musician. Throughout their studies, they have sought to draw on diverse musical disciplines from baroque performance practice to modern popular music to develop a unique artistic perspective that is firmly grounded in the complexity of our present historical moment.

Ezra holds degrees in both Orchestral Conducting and Viola Performance and is an alumnus of notable training programs including the National Orchestral Institute + Festival, the Eastern Music Festival, the International Conducting Workshop and Festival, and the Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival.

Last season, Ezra served as Associate Conductor to the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and was a 2024 AAF/Faber Conducting Fellow with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival. They currently reside in New Haven, Connecticut where they study at the Yale School of Music under the instruction of Peter Oundjian. They have studied with Emily Freeman Brown, Marin Alsop, Larry Rachleff, Gerard Schwarz, James Ross, and Donald Schleicher.