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Melear’s 2014-15 season began with conducting the San Francisco Opera Merola Program’s Schwabacher Concerts in July 2014, a diverse collection of extended, staged scenes that inspired the SF Classical Music Examiner to remark that it “was a performance in which no aspect of craft was ever overlooked or bypassed.” After spending the fall as a guest staff member of the Vienna State Opera, assisting conductors such as Semyon Bychkov and Christoph Eschenbach, he then served as Musical Advisor to Maestro Seiji Ozawa in Japan for multiple performances of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges. Based in Vienna, Austria, he serves on the music staff of the Vienna State Opera, where he assists on numerous productions, helps prepare the world-class ensemble, and shares conducting responsibilities for the stage music. He also returns to Wolf Trap Opera to conduct Gassmann’s L’opera seria and makes his debut with Arizona Opera leading Verdi’s Falstaff.

In 2015-16 he is thrilled to return to Japan to share conducting performances of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges with Seiji Ozawa as part of the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival.

Conductor and pianist Eric Melear has carved out an operatic career as a versatile performer and administrator, dividing his time between conducting, coaching and playing, and having overseen the musical activities of both Houston Grand Opera and Wolf Trap Opera.