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Blair Salter
LA Opera: conductor of Hercules vs Vampires (2026). She is Head of Music for LA Opera, after previously serving as Head Coach for the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program.
Canadian collaborative pianist Blair Salter is a versatile performer and music director who has worked at prestigious opera companies throughout North America. She has been a member of the music staff at Santa Fe Opera since 2019. She has previously worked as music staff at San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Colorado, Michigan Opera Theatre, New Orleans Opera and the CoOPERAtive Program, and was music director for Opera Theatre at Penn State University from 2021 to 2023.
Blair was a conductor with the Dallas Opera's Hart Institute in 2023, and she is the creator of the contemporary aria database Voce Moderna. She is a graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Wolf Trap Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival; She completed her DMA at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Martin Katz.
LA Opera: conductor of Hercules vs Vampires (2026). She is Head of Music for LA Opera, after previously serving as Head Coach for the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program.
Canadian collaborative pianist Blair Salter is a versatile performer and music director who has worked at prestigious opera companies throughout North America. She has been a member of the music staff at Santa Fe Opera since 2019. She has previously worked as music staff at San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Colorado, Michigan Opera Theatre, New Orleans Opera and the CoOPERAtive Program, and was music director for Opera Theatre at Penn State University from 2021 to 2023.
Blair was a conductor with the Dallas Opera's Hart Institute in 2023, and she is the creator of the contemporary aria database Voce Moderna. She is a graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Wolf Trap Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival; She completed her DMA at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Martin Katz.