Jennifer Tung

Nominated for a Dora Award for Gould’s Wall, Jennifer Tung is the artistic director of Toronto City Opera and assistant conductor of the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra. She leads a uniquely versatile career as music director, collaborative pianist, and soprano. In 2020–21, she joined Tapestry Opera as a conducting fellow in the inaugural year of the Women in Musical Leadership program, in partnership with Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Opera Victoria.

Jennifer debuted with the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival conducting The Mikado in 2017 and has returned to conduct Sweeney Todd and The Tragedy of Carmen. In 2019, she debuted with Opera York in La traviata and assisted Tapestry Opera and Opera on the Avalon’s joint production of the Dora Award–winning opera Shanawdithit by Dean Burry and Yvette Nolan. Recently, she conducted the world premiere of Gould’s Wall by Brian Current and Liza Balken, a joint production with the Royal Conservatory of Music and Tapestry Opera.

For the 2022–23 season, she has debuted as guest conductor with Opera McGill’s production of Anna Pigorna and Maria Reva’s Plaything (Canadian premiere), and with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and Kamloops Symphony Orchestra. In March 2023 Jennifer conducted the world premieres of Continuum’s production of Rodney Sharman and Atom Egoyan’s opera Show Room, as well as Tapestry Opera/Obsidian Theatre's co-production of Ian Cusson and Kanika Ambrose’s Of the Sea.

Jennifer is on faculty at Toronto’s Glenn Gould School, and is a sought-after faculty member for summer programs internationally. She holds degrees in vocal performance and collaborative piano from the Eastman School of Music and has studied conducting with Denis Mastromonaco.