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Recently announced as the new Musical Director of New London Chamber Choir, Jess Hoskins is rapidly building a varied career with a strong emphasis on contemporary music, opera and innovative cross-genre projects. Recent highlights include working at Garsington Opera on The Importance of Being Earnest, and performing with the Fiskars Festival Orchestra and Karen Cargill in Finland. Jess looks forward to assisting at Glyndebourne on their new youth company production, Spark!

Jess’ experience as an assistant conductor includes projects with the London Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Rouen, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and Royal Academy Opera. They have given concert performances with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Waterperry Opera and Wells Cathedral School Symphony Orchestra. Jess’ music directing experience in the theatre includes Philip Venables’ Denis and Katya, Maxwell Davies’ Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot and two premieres at Tête-à-Tête Opera, and they have premiered concert works by dozens of composers. 

Jess graduated with distinction from the master’s course in orchestral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, where they studied with Sian Edwards, winning the exam board prize for conducting and the Commendation for Excellence, the Academy's highest graduation honour. Jess has taken part in masterclasses with Vasily Petrenko, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Dima Slobodeniouk, Jac van Steen, Edward Gardner, and Mark Stringer. They have also studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Antony Hermus as part of the Elton John Global Exchange programme.  

Jess is also a DJ and the founder of The Orchestral Dance Music Experiment, a new project combining electronic dance music with live instrumentals.