https://www.susannesheston.org/home-shibori daily 1.0 2023-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1684089675633-733ZY0YW0G0BH9MYP9H6/Headshot3.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1684089675633-733ZY0YW0G0BH9MYP9H6/Headshot3.jpg Home https://www.susannesheston.org/about-diy-shibori daily 0.75 2026-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1662057105161-JJ1M6DW7RMRVTZUPBLK3/image-asset.jpeg Reviews -- Chorus Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1662057105161-JJ1M6DW7RMRVTZUPBLK3/image-asset.jpeg Reviews -- Chorus Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1487563002625-L9I6NAZTVNB99J76TARD/image-asset.png Reviews -- Chorus Director https://www.susannesheston.org/about-shibori-1 daily 0.75 2023-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1487563002625-L9I6NAZTVNB99J76TARD/image-asset.png About Me Conductor and chorus master Susanne Sheston is currently the Chorus Master of the acclaimed Santa Fe Opera, a position she has enjoyed since 2008. As a chorus master, Sheston has collaborated with many of the world’s leading operatic and symphonic conductors (see below). Her work at Santa Fe has included choral preparations for six world premieres and two North American premieres. Sheston was chorus master for the Grammy-award-winning recording (Best Opera Performance, 2019) of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, recorded live at Santa Fe Opera on the Pentatone label. Her work can also be heard on the 2016 Grammy-nominated recording of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain. As a conductor, Sheston recently led performances of the world premiere of Finding Wright, by Laura Kaminsky and Andrea Fellows Walters, for Dayton Opera, additionally serving as the project’s musical consultant during the development of the piece. As a longtime staff conductor with Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, Sheston regularly conducted the orchestra’s annual Messiah Sing-In, numerous gala concerts, and opera productions. She also recently led Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 and Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, and Stephen Paulus’ Shoes for the Santa Niño with Santa Fe Opera. Sheston’s acclaimed debut with the Deer Valley Music Festival, summer home of the Utah Symphony, was a concert of Mozart and Haydn symphonic and choral works. Previously, Sheston was the director of both the Utah Symphony Chorus and the Utah Opera Chorus in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as Chorus Master and Associate Conductor at Des Moines Metro Opera. Her tenure with the Utah Symphony brought the opportunity to prepare a wide range of major choral works with orchestra, including choral symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler, and Vaughan Williams; the Requiems of Mozart, Fauré, Brahms, and Verdi; dramatic pieces such as Berlioz's Damnation of Faust and L'Enfance du Christ, Orff's Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and the Bernstein Mass; as well as unusual repertoire such as Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden, Grieg's Peer Gynt, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (film), and Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time, among many others. Her work as the chorus master and assistant conductor of Utah Opera, where she also contributed to artist casting assignments, included preparation of over 50 productions, spanning eleven seasons. Sought after as both a vocal coach and piano teacher, Dr. Sheston taught piano, choral music and music history at Simpson College for three years. She makes her home in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. *Collaborations include projects with Maestros David Robertson, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Patrick Summers, Johannes Debus, Paul Daniel, Corrado Rovaris, Emmanuel Villaume, Sir Andrew Davis, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Stephen Lord, Kenneth Montgomery, John Nelson, Andrew Litton, Keith Lockhart, Thierry Fischer, Bernard Labadie, Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket, and many others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1487563002625-L9I6NAZTVNB99J76TARD/image-asset.png About Me Conductor and chorus master Susanne Sheston is currently the Chorus Master of the acclaimed Santa Fe Opera, a position she has enjoyed since 2008. As a chorus master, Sheston has collaborated with many of the world’s leading operatic and symphonic conductors (see below). Her work at Santa Fe has included choral preparations for six world premieres and two North American premieres. Sheston was chorus master for the Grammy-award-winning recording (Best Opera Performance, 2019) of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, recorded live at Santa Fe Opera on the Pentatone label. Her work can also be heard on the 2016 Grammy-nominated recording of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain. As a conductor, Sheston recently led performances of the world premiere of Finding Wright, by Laura Kaminsky and Andrea Fellows Walters, for Dayton Opera, additionally serving as the project’s musical consultant during the development of the piece. As a longtime staff conductor with Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, Sheston regularly conducted the orchestra’s annual Messiah Sing-In, numerous gala concerts, and opera productions. She also recently led Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 and Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, and Stephen Paulus’ Shoes for the Santa Niño with Santa Fe Opera. Sheston’s acclaimed debut with the Deer Valley Music Festival, summer home of the Utah Symphony, was a concert of Mozart and Haydn symphonic and choral works. Previously, Sheston was the director of both the Utah Symphony Chorus and the Utah Opera Chorus in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as Chorus Master and Associate Conductor at Des Moines Metro Opera. Her tenure with the Utah Symphony brought the opportunity to prepare a wide range of major choral works with orchestra, including choral symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler, and Vaughan Williams; the Requiems of Mozart, Fauré, Brahms, and Verdi; dramatic pieces such as Berlioz's Damnation of Faust and L'Enfance du Christ, Orff's Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and the Bernstein Mass; as well as unusual repertoire such as Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden, Grieg's Peer Gynt, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (film), and Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time, among many others. Her work as the chorus master and assistant conductor of Utah Opera, where she also contributed to artist casting assignments, included preparation of over 50 productions, spanning eleven seasons. Sought after as both a vocal coach and piano teacher, Dr. Sheston taught piano, choral music and music history at Simpson College for three years. She makes her home in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. *Collaborations include projects with Maestros David Robertson, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Patrick Summers, Johannes Debus, Paul Daniel, Corrado Rovaris, Emmanuel Villaume, Sir Andrew Davis, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Stephen Lord, Kenneth Montgomery, John Nelson, Andrew Litton, Keith Lockhart, Thierry Fischer, Bernard Labadie, Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket, and many others. https://www.susannesheston.org/how-shibori-works-shibori daily 0.75 2023-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1658119314963-PHAKY18J2LHBP541HD4K/image-asset.jpeg Reviews -- Conducting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1658119314963-PHAKY18J2LHBP541HD4K/image-asset.jpeg Reviews -- Conducting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1647143242261-7SWYS0DVWQO3DCGY1EJE/DressRehearsal1.jpg Reviews -- Conducting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1487563002625-L9I6NAZTVNB99J76TARD/EmptyName-81.jpg Reviews -- Conducting - 02 "Maestro Sheston was in sensitive control throughout the evening, from an excellent reading of David Diamond’s musical impressions of scenes from Romeo and Juliet onward…In partnership with soprano Jennifer Black, Maestro Sheston handled Strauss’s artistic vision with telling effect…The concluding work, Gustav Mahler’s “Titan” Symphony, is a masterpiece of myriad colors and moods, and Maestro Sheston’s tour de force interpretive understanding and skillful management at the podium, along with outstanding cooperation from the orchestra, produced an unbeatable closing impression for the RSO’s season." --The Ridgefield Press, 5/14/16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/1487467375942-31JQ79IP1141EF9YFUPB/EmptyName-92.jpg Reviews -- Conducting "Wednesday's Deer Valley Music Festival concert was a treat for Mozart and Haydn lovers in that the program consisted of equal portions of both composers...Joining the Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra were members of the Utah Symphony Chorus, who opened and closed the concert. Both ensembles, under the direction of Susanne Sheston, gave a wonderfully dynamic and engaging performance…Starting the concert was Haydn's brief but glorious Te Deum...Sheston captured the exuberance of the piece admirably. She coaxed a vibrant performance out of her forces, with the orchestra playing clearly and with fine articulation and the chorus singing in top form…Mozart's "Vesperae Solemnes de Confessore," K. 339, which ended the concert, was equally rapturous…Once again, Sheston did a fine job, getting a wonderfully dimensioned performance from her musicians. The performance was articulate and well executed and captured the wonderful lyricism of the music." --Deseret News, 8/03/07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58a8f02c1e5b6ce697da4fed/64611feb5ba9013aca75eef8/64611feb5ba9013aca75eefd/1684088034176/EmptyName-82.jpg Reviews -- Conducting - 03 "Susanne Sheston directed the Utah Symphony in a crisp and colorful performance of Donizetti's sparkling gem of a score." 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