LARRY MARIETTA, Conductor and Artistic Director, is the Music Program Director for the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, Artistic Director/Conductor of the San Francisco City Chorus and Vox Dilecti, Resident Conductor of the California Chamber Symphony, and Accompanist/Coach for the Bay Area Professional Singers’ Forum.

An active Bay Area conductor, accompanist, voice teacher and vocal coach, he serves on the faculties of Contra Costa Community College and The Crowden School, where he teaches “Introduction to Opera” and “Opera Appreciation.”  With degrees in organ performance and conducting, he was Guest Artist, Lecturer in German, Italian and English Diction, Operatic Repertoire, Introduction to Singing History, Faculty Vocal Coach and Accompanist and a guest Choral-Conducting Lecturer with Boston Pops’ conductor Keith Lockhart at Carnegie Mellon Conservatory for 12 years.  He also served 8 years on the Adjunct Piano and Organ Faculties of West Virginia University and Waynesburg College, and for 14 years he was Choral Director and Professor of Voice for Washington and Jefferson College.

Lauded in public reviews for his “sensitive accompaniments with beautiful sense of rubato and volume contrast,” he has appeared as a featured piano accompanist for such distinguished singers as Renée Fleming, Arleen Auger and John Shirley-Quirk, the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops with Marvin Hamlisch, plus the Aspen Music Festival, the Metropolitan Young Artists Program, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Pittsburgh Ballet, the Manhattan Opera Company and numerous regional opera theater companies (he was even a guest dancer for Barry Manilow!).
His conducting credits in the Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble (all Pittsburgh Symphony musicians), Pittsburgh’s Benedum Orchestra, Junior/Senior High School District and Honors Choir Festivals, and many community sacred choral festivals and music theater productions.
Twice he has been a guest speaker for the National Symposium of Laryngologists. 

His recent Bay Area conducting performances include the Requiems of Verdi, Mozart and Brahms, Handel’s Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus and Israel in Egypt, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Paulus, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Haydn’s Creation & Missa in Tempore Beli, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Rossini’s Stabat mater and Weber’s seldom-performed Mass in G Major.