David Agler is artistic director of Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland. To name a few, he has served as artistic director for Opera Festival of New Jersey, Music Director of Vancouver Opera, principal conductor of Opera Australia, resident conductor of San Francisco Opera and principal guest conductor of Oper Köln, in Germany.
Notable guest conducting engagements include productions with the operas of Minnesota, Colorado, Santa Fe, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Montréal and the Netherlands, as well as the New York City Opera and Boston Lyric Opera.
As a symphonic conductor, he has led concerts with the San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony, National Arts Centre (Ottawa) Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.
As music director in Vancouver, David Agler earned special acclaim for productions of repertoire from the twentieth century. As principal conductor of Opera Australia, he conducted new productions, in addition to numerous revivals. He also headed the establishment of the Young Artist Program at Opera Australia.
Notable accomplishments during his tenure in San Francisco were the formation of a new orchestra for the opera and the development of the San Francisco Opera Center and the American Opera Project.
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