About Jessica

Jessica Bejarano is the founder and music director of the San Francisco Philharmonic. Jessica also serves as Assistant Conductor of Opera Parallele in San Francisco; Music Director at Escuela Bilingue Internacionale and regular guest conductor with Camerata Antonio Soler Orchestra in San Lorenzo de el Escorial, Spain. In 2019 Jessica was featured on NBC’s The Today Show with Natalie Morales as the “Woman Breaking Barriers as a Trailblazing Symphony Conductor”. PBS News Hour Weekend also featured Jessica as an emerging female conductor and KQED named Jessica one of 10 artists to watch in KQED Arts’ Bay Brilliant Top 10 Artists of 2018. 

Summer of 2019 Jessica was selected to study, work and conduct with Atso Almila, professor of conducting and orchestra of the Sibelius-Academy (Finland) as well as give a public performance with the Camerata Antonio Soler Orchestra in San Lorenzo de el Escorial, Spain. In July Jessica served as assistant conductor/cover conductor of the State Opera House of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria where she assisted in premiering Catelli’s Traiano in Tracia, a new Italian opera.

In April of 2019 Jessica was the first women in history to guest conduct the American Youth Symphony in Los Angeles. She was also the featured guest conductor and clinician at the San Diego State University’s Women in Music, Diversity and Leadership Conference. January 2018, she was one of twelve female conductors selected from around the world to attend and conduct at the International Women’s Conference in New York City representing the United States of America and Mexico. During that same time Jessica was the resident conductor of the University of California Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra. 

Jessica has guest conducted in Russia, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Spain, Venezuela and throughout the United States. She has also held motivational speaker engagements for numerous companies, schools and arts organizations.  

Jessica received her Master of Arts in Conducting from the University of California Davis; Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Wyoming and Associates of Fine Arts in Music Education from Casper College.