Jenny Wong
Associate Artistic Director
A native of Hong Kong based in Los Angeles, Jenny Wong is the Associate Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Chorus Director of the San Francisco Symphony. Her conducting engagements have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony and Pops, The Industry, Long Beach Opera, Phoenix Chorale, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. In 2021, Wong was one of nine national recipients of OPERA America’s inaugural Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors.
As chorus master, Wong has prepared choruses for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki, Jonathan Cohen, Osmo Vänskä, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Jaime Martin, among others. Under Wong’s leadership, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus was awarded the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Kaija Sariaaho’s Adriana Mater with the San Francisco Symphony, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the LA Phil, and the 2022 American Prize for Choral Performance - Professional Division.