Jenny (née James Richard Frieman) has served as Director of Music at St. Peter's since 2015.  A native of Philadelphia, she received her doctorate in conducting from Stanford University in 1999, and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in music from San Francisco State University and Temple University’s Boyer College of Music, respectively.  

 

She served as Music Director of the San Diego Master Chorale from 1999 through 2002 and was Assistant Conductor to Maestro Kerry Stratton with the Huntsville Festival Orchestra in Ontario (Canada) in 1999 and 2000. For ten years, she served as Music Director of the San Francisco Concert Chorale and Orchestra, where her artistic partners included the Kronos Quartet, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and the Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic. From 1979 to 1984, she was Director of Choral Music at Sonoma State University, and has also served as assistant conductor and chorus master with West Bay Opera, Fremont Opera and Berkeley Opera.

 

She is also Music Director of the New Millennium Chamber Orchestra, an acclaimed volunteer ensemble that she co-founded in 20112.