ARTISTIC STAFF

Susan Davenny Wyner
Music Director and Conductor

Susan Davenny Wyner has received national acclaim for her conducting. The Library of Congress featured her in its 2003 “Women Who Dare” Engagement Calendar, and the MacNeil-Lehrer News hour and WGBH Television have presented special documentary features on her life and work. Her conducting credits include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, the Danish Odense Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra members in special benefit concerts. André Previn, Lynn Harrell, Claude Frank, Peter Serkin, and Emanuel Ax, have been among her guest soloists. She has also conducted concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, in Italy and the Czech Republic, at the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals, and has recorded for CBS Radio and Bridge and Albany Records.

Initially trained as a violinist and violist, Susan Davenny Wyner then went on to an international career as a soprano—singing with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, The London Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, and the Israel, Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics among many others.  She recorded for Columbia Masterworks, Angel/EMI, Naxos, New World, Naxos, CRI and Musical Heritage, and won both a Grammy and a Grand Prix du Disc. When a hit and run accident destroyed her singing voice, she began her career as a conductor.

Since 1999, she has been Music Director and Conductor of The Warren Philharmonic Orchestra (a professional orchestra near Cleveland, Ohio), and she has also been Music Director and Conductor of the professional Opera Western Reserve (Ohio) since its creation in 2004. From 1999-2005 she was Music Director and Conductor of The New England String Ensemble, which she brought to national prominence. She has held conducting positions at New England Conservatory, The Cleveland Institute of Music, Wellesley College, and Brandeis and Cornell Universities, and has conducted numerous lecture demonstrations and master-classes for the Conductors Guild National Convention, and at Harvard and Yale Universities, among many others.

She has served as Conductor and Music Director of Boston Midsummer Opera since 2007.

Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
Stage Director

Antonio Ocampo-Guzman is pleased to return to Boston Midsummer Opera, after directing Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Donizetti’s Il Campanello and Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz, and last year’s production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.

Antonio is an actor, director and an Associate Professor of Theatre at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He trained with Teatro Libre in his native Bogotá, Colombia, and with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. Antonio received an MFA in Directing as well as a Graduate Diploma in Voice from York University, Toronto. He has directed over 50 productions in several countries. In the Boston area, he has worked with New Repertory Theatre, Actors Shakespeare Project, The Nora Theatre, among others.

Antonio is a Designated Linklater Master Voice Teacher and is the author of La Liberación de la Voz Natural: El Método Linklater(UNAM, 2010). He serves as a consultant for CEUVOZ, a center for voice studies in Mexico City, where he runs a Linklater Voice Teacher training program.

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