Jenny Beyer Cornell, a native of Philadelphia, received the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in
conducting from Stanford University in 1999, and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in
music from San Francisco State University and Temple University’s Boyer College of Music,
respectively.
She served as Music Director of the San Diego Master Chorale from 1999 through
2002, preparing choruses for the San Diego Symphony and San Diego Chamber Orchestra;
and in 1999 and 2000 was Assistant Conductor of the Huntsville Festival Orchestra in Ontario
(Canada) under maestro Kerry Stratton.
For ten years, she was Music Director of the San Francisco Concert Chorale and Orchestra, whose artistic partners included the Kronos Quartet, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and the Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic. From 1979 to 1984, she was Director of Choral Music at Sonoma State University, and has also been assistant conductor and chorus master with West Bay Opera, Fremont Opera and Berkeley Opera.
