Matilda Hofman has a varied and busy conducting schedule in the US and Europe, with reviews describing her performances as “taut and finely controlled”, “unerring” and as having “a striking sense of purpose”.

 

Matilda is Music Director of the Diablo Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and conductor for the Empyrean Ensemble. She has guest conducted the Rochester Philharmonic, Fremont Symphony, Composers Conference, San Francisco Ballet, Festival Opera, and Earplay, among others. She has also guest-conducted orchestras at the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, UC Davis and University of the Pacific. Matilda serves as a cover conductor for the San Francisco Symphony.

 

Matilda loves conducting opera and working with singers. Operas conducted include La Traviata, Another Sunrise, Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Festival Opera), Acis and Galatea (Oberlin Conservatory), Turn of the Screw (Britten Festival 2001), Albert Herring (CCM), Marriage of Figaro (Southbank Sinfonia), Cosi fan Tutte (New Cambridge Opera Group), Bluebeard’s Castle (UC Davis), Artemisia, Death with Interruptions (Left Coast Chamber Ensemble). Matilda also assisted Michael Morgan at Sacramento Opera for several seasons.

 

Matilda is passionate about new music, and has been commissioning and performing new works from her student days on.

In Europe Matilda has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Berliner Festspiele and Holland Festival among others, working with ensembles including Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, SWR Sinfonie-orchester and Bochumer Symponiker. She has conducted Luigi Nono’s Prometeo, Stockhausen’s Carre, and prepared with Chorwerk Ruhr for the debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by George Benjamin.