Jessé
Martins

Conductor, Piano, Vocal Coach

Jessé Martins

Conductor, Piano, Vocal Coach

Sarasota, FL

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Brazilian conductor, pianist, and voice coach Jessé Martins has extensive experience working with all types of singers from children to seasoned professionals. Since joining Sarasota Opera in 2011, he conducted Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment; Chorus Master & Head of the Apprentice Program for the 2020 Winter Festival, Studio Artists Director for the 2022-2023 Season, and will be conducting Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 2024.

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Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)

(He/Him) Brazilian conductor, pianist, and voice coach Jessé Martins has extensive experience working with all types of singers from children to seasoned professionals. Since joining Sarasota Opera in 2011, he conducted Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment; Chorus Master & Head of the Apprentice Program for the 2020 Winter Festival, Studio Artists Director for the 2022-2023 Season, and will be conducting Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 2024.

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Career Highlights/Education

Opera Factory

Assistant Music Director, 2008-2010

Sarasota Opera

Youth Opera Music Director & Music Administrator, 2011-2022

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The Little Sweep

Conductor

Sarasota Opera

The Music of Giacomo Puccini

Cover Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Lucia dì Lammermoor

Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Recent Highlights

Don Giovanni

Cover Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Thérèse

Cover Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Festa Napoletana Concert

Pianist

Sarasota Opera

MARGOT ZARZYCKA, violin

Pianist

Sarasota Bay Club

Isabelle Besancon, cello

Pianist

Sarasota Bay Club

Her Beauty

Pianist

Sarasota Concert Association

Spring Classical Concert Series

Pianist

Venice Library

Universal Language

Pianist

Multiple

Jennifer Rowley's Aria Bootcamp

Vocal Coach

Jennifer Rowley's Aria Bootcamp

La Fille du Régiment

Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Voices of Sarasota Opera

Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Aria Bootcamp

Vocal Coach

Jennifer Rowley's Aria Bootcamp

August 05, 2022 to 9 more

August 05, 2022
August 06, 2022
August 07, 2022
August 08, 2022
August 09, 2022 August 10, 2022
August 11, 2022
August 12, 2022
August 13, 2022
August 14, 2022

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First Voices

Pianist

EnsembleNEWsrq

The Secret World of Og

Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Il Matrimonio Segreto

Cover Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Her Beauty

Pianist

Saint Mark's Concert Series

ENSRQ + SCD

Pianist

EnsembleNEWsrq

FALL CLASSICAL CONCERT SERIES

Pianist

Venice Library

2022-2023 Season

Studio Artists' Director

Sarasota Opera

Dido and Aeneas

Conductor

Sarasota Opera

La Scala di Seta

Cover Conductor

Sarasota Opera

La serva padrona

Cover Conductor

Sarasota Opera

2020 Winter Season (La Bohème, The elixir of love, Romeo and Juliet, La Wally

Director of the Apprentice Artists & Chorus Master

Sarasota Opera

La Wally

Cover conductor

Sarasota Opera

Brundibar

Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Event Information

Brundibar

November 15, 2019 - November 16, 2019

Description

A brother and sister, Little Joe and Annette, need to buy milk for their sick mother but have no money. They see the organ-grinder, Brundibár, playing his hurdy-gurdy on the street corner and collecting money from the townspeople. The children decide that they too will sing and collect money, but they are laughed at and chased away by Brundibár.

As night approaches, a group of animals encourage the children to stand up to the organ-grinder. The next morning, with the help of the neighborhood children, they sing a charming lullaby which earns them money from the townspeople. Brundibár tires to steal their money, but after a brief chase he is caught and the children sing a song of victory.

Raise Up Your Voice

by Martha Collins (stage director) and Jesse Martins (Youth Opera Music Director)

When we first learned about Brundibár, we were profoundly moved by the history surrounding the work - that of it having been performed by children in the Terezín camp-ghetto. As we delved more into the lives and writings of these children, most of whom were murdered under the Nazi regime, we became deeply inspired and humbled by these young people who strove to stay artistically alive under such prohibitive conditions. It became important to us that the companion piece we created to go with Brundibár should not use words and stories created by us, but rather the actual words of young people. The search led us to the diaries and letters of children throughout the world written while they were living through the challenges of intolerance in its many forms.

In 1948, Winston Churchill said "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it". It is important that we remember the stories of these children. We found wisdom in the words of these inspiring young people who were questioning the world that adults had created; these children who were able to see the world through a lens of what life could be when not limited by politics, hatred or indoctrination.

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Jessé Martins

Conductor

Nov 15, 2019

Dates

Nov, 19

Die Zauberflöte

Conductor

Sarasota Opera

February 16, 2019 to 9 more

February 16, 2019
February 19, 2019
February 21, 2019
February 24, 2019
February 27, 2019 March 01, 2019
March 16, 2019
March 21, 2019
March 23, 2019
December 01, 2019

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Tiefland

Cover Conductor

Sarasota Opera

Rootabaga Country by Rachel J. Peters

Conductor (world premiere)

Sarasota Opera

L’italiana in Algeri

Cover conductor

Sarasota Opera

The Secret World of Og

Conductor (U.S. premiere)

Sarasota Opera

Le nozze di Figaro

Cover conductor

Sarasota Opera

I’ll barbiere di Siviglia

Cover conductor

Sarasota Opera

Biography

Jessé Martins is a conductor, pianist, and voice coach who has extensive experience working with all types of singers from children to seasoned professionals.

For Sarasota Opera’s 2022-2023 Season, Maestro Martins is the Director of the Studio Artists Program, conductor for the Youth Opera production of Dean Burry’s The Secret World of Og, and understudy conductor for Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Massenet’s Thérèse. Since joining the music staff of Sarasota Opera in 2011, he has been integrally involved in all aspects of the company’s musicmaking. He conducted Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (2019), Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (2021), and Donizetti’s La fille du régiment (2022). Maestro Martins was the Chorus Master & Head of the Apprentice Program during the 2020 Winter Festival and has performed as pianist in many concerts for the company and throughout the area.

As Youth Opera Music Director for Sarasota Opera since 2011, Maestro Martins has conducted the world premiere of Rachel J. Peters’ Rootabga Country, the U.S. premiere of Dean Burry’s The Secret World of OG, Britten’s The Little Sweep, Dean Burry’s The Hobbit, Krása’s Brundibár and was the associate conductor for the world premiere of Daron Hagen’s Little Nemo in Slumberland.

In collaboration with Martha Collins he co-wrote and conducted 2 works for the Sarasota Youth Opera Raise Up Your Voice – Intolerance Through The Voices of Children, and Let’s Put on an Opera. As part of the music staff Martins was the cover conductor for Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, and L’italiana in Algeri, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Eugene D’Albert’s Tiefland, Catalani’s La Wally, Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, and Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto.

He has worked extensively as a coach in his native Brazil, New Zealand, and now the Sarasota opera and area. He is also a member of the Sarasota Piano Trio.

Martins has dedicated much of his professional career working as a pianist in his home country Brazil, New Zealand, England, and the United States. He holds a Master of Arts in Collaborative Piano from Mansfield University (PA), and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

While a Graduate Assistant at Mansfield University, Mr. Martins was involved in many projects such as Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Richard Strauss’ Melodramas for piano and narrator, George Crumb’s 11 Echoes of Autumn, George Flynn’s Chicago Mood, and the Recital Winds & Strings Sweep into the 20th Century as part of the Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival (NY). He also traveled with the University's Concert Choir to the UK, and the Eisteddfod competition in Wales.

Since relocating to Sarasota, Mr. Martins has kept a presence outside the opera house by collaborating with other artists in recitals throughout the community, including multiple concerts with ensemblenewSRQ.

Prior to his graduate studies Mr. Martins was the Assistant Music Director and Program Manager for the Opera Factory Theater (Auckland, New Zealand) – a training center for young singers where he performed the roles of Assistant Coach on David Griffiths’ The Three Franks, Phillip Norman’s A Factory Opera and Pleasure Garden, Rod Biss’ Marriage a la mode, Menotti’s The Consul, Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea, Bizet’s Doctor Miracle; and Music Director on Krasa’s Brundibar, Britten’s Albert Herring, Arthur Benjamin’s Prima Donna, Menotti’s The boy who grew too fast and The Telephone, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, Arne’s Thomas and Sally, and Mozart’s The Impresario. While in New Zealand Mr. Martins had the chance to work with world renowned soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, British Maestro Sir Andrew Davis, and chorus repetiteur for NBR NZ Opera’s Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček.

Press Quotes

"“For me the outstanding performance of the evening was from Youth Opera Conductor Jesse Martins, in a brilliant debut. For several years now, he has coached the youth opera and conducted its annual productions, but this is his first production with the main company. Never overbalancing the singers, he both led and accompanied them beautifully with a good understanding of Mozart’s style, never missing a cue in a score rife with pitfalls for any conductor. Let’s hope he receives other such opportunities in the future.” Edward Alley"

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