John Sullivan, Music Director

John Sullivan '09, a native of Cambridge, MA, is a music concentrator in Pforzheimer House.  For the past two years he has served as music director and conductor of the Dunster House Opera Society, Harvard's all-undergraduate opera company.  Under John's direction, DHO gave fully staged performances of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in 2007 and Così fan tutte in 2008.  John was the Assistant Music Director for Melopoeia's 2006 productions of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Vaughan Williams's Riders to the Sea.

John is also an accomplished pianist; he has been playing since age six and has studied at the Longy School of Music, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the European American Musical Alliance program in Paris.  He has studied for the past eleven years with Wayne Miller.  He has been extensively involved in chamber music and accompanying of both singers and instrumentalists since coming to Harvard, appearing on campus in chamber music concerts, house concerts, Arts First programs and senior recitals.  In May 2007 he music-directed and accompanied a concert of Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes and selections from operas by Mozart, Bizet and Verdi.

John sings tenor in the Choral Fellows of the Harvard University Choir under the direction of Edward Jones.  He has studied voice for the past two years with Frank Kelley, and has studied conducting with Dr. Jameson Marvin of Harvard and Mark Shapiro of the Mannes College of Music.

View a list of all past music directors of the Bach Society Orchestra.