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. Refusing to limit their musical thought to the traditional canon has allowed them to understand how a “classical” artistic practice can transcend mere aesthetic nicety and participate in holistic social healing. 

Previously, Ezra has served as Associate Conductor to the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, where they lead the Sistema Ravinia youth ensembles. They were also named the 2024 AAF/Faber Conducting Fellow with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival. Most recently, Ezra served as Assistant Conductor to the Peninsula Music Festival in Door County, Wisconsin. They currently reside in New Haven, Connecticut where they study conducting at the Yale School of Music. They are the current Music Director of the New Haven Chamber Orchestra , serve as Guest Conductor to the San Gabriel Valley Symphony in Los Angeles, as well as Assistant Conductor to the Yale Philharmonia.

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. They currently study with Peter Oundjian, and have previously studied with Emily Freeman Brown, Marin Alsop, Larry Rachleff, Gerard Schwarz, James Ross, and Donald Schleicher.