A Dora nominated conductor (Gould’s Wall), Chinese-Canadian Jennifer Tung is the artistic director of Toronto City Opera and assistant conductor of the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra.  In 2020/21, she joined Tapestry Opera as a conducting fellow in the inaugural year of the Women in Musical Leadership program, in partnership with Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Opera Victoria.

Jennifer debuted with the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival conducting The Mikado in 2017 and has returned to conduct Sweeney Todd and Tragedy of Carmen. In 2019, she debuted with Opera York in La Traviata and assisted Tapestry Opera and Opera on the Avalon’s joint production of “Shanawdithit”by Dean Burry and Yvette Nolan.  Recently, she conducted the world premiere of “Gould’s Wall” by Brian Current and Liza Balken, a joint production with the Royal Conservatory of Music and Tapestry Opera.  

For the 2022/23 season, she debuted as guest conductor with Opera McGill’s production of “Plaything” (Anna Pigorna/Maria Reva – Canadian premiere), Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic and Kamloops Symphony.  In March of 2023, Jennifer conducted the world premieres of Continuum’s production of the opera “Show Room” (Rodney Sharman/Atom Egoyan) as well as Tapestry Opera/Obsidian Theatre’s co-production of “Of the Sea” (Ian Cusson/Kanika Ambrose).    and was assistant conductor for COC’s production of “Pomegranate”.  Recent engagements include concerts with Kamloops symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Vancouver Opera and will make her debut with the Glenn Gould School Opera in their production of Mozart’s Magic Flute in Koerner Hall in March 2025.Jennifer is on faculty at Toronto’s Glenn Gould School, and is a sought-after faculty member for summer programs internationally. She studied conducting with Maestro Denis Mastromonaco.