REVIEWS AND FEATURES

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2025 San Francisco Opera Women's History Month feature

2022 PBS feature on Center for Contemporary Opera's workshop of Niloufar Nourbakhsh's We, the Innumerable​

2019 Disney Hall debut with the LA Phil New Music Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, and the Mapplethorpe Foundation.

Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times.

2019 San Francisco Opera article​​

"Sara Jobin conducted a colorful, bristling account of the score."

Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times.  World premiere, Jane Eyre

Messiah excerpt (2016)

Bach B minor Mass peace project

Baltimore's Lyric Opera House first woman (2016)​

Harvard Magazine feature​

Toledo Symphony appointment

New York Times feature on The Purchase of Manhattan by Brent Michael Davids.  World premiere

Appropriately, in the International Section, not the Arts section.  Written by James Barron

Feature by Janos Gereben

Meet the Conductor Little Orchestra Society (aimed at a young audience)

"Ms. Jobin drew efficient work from her 13 instrumentalists." 

Steve Smith, The New York Times.  World premiere, Secret Agent

2007 Global Warming Cabaret:  funny.​​

Arizona Opera first woman (2006)

Call Me Madame Maestro, history of women conductors as of 2005.  Blair Tindall, The New York Times.

"Jobin boasts a crisp, fluid podium technique to go with her disarmingly folksy demeanor." Feature article

Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle.​​​​

Complete list of San Francisco Opera productions worked on​​

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CDs

River of Song with Frederica von Stade.  Music by by Chris Brubeck. 

Also featuring Rachel Luxon, Taylor Eigsti and the Tassajara Symphony Orchestra, on KOCH International Classics

Volpone by John Musto (2010 GRAMMY nomination, Best Opera Recording) Albany Records

The Secret Agent by Michael Dellaira

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VIDEOS:

William Mayer's A Death in the Family:  Center for Contemporary Opera, won "Best Production" and "Audience Favorite" at the Armel Opera Competition and Festival, the first time one production won both awards.  Broadcast by Arte Live 2012:  Sextet "Hail Mary".  Epilogue

BCAN feature (2018)

LA Opera: Scare Pair trailer 

The Secret Agent by Michael Dellaira, in Hungary

Outcast at the Gate by Joel Feigin with piano

Syrian refugee children learning to tap dance at a summer music camp (2018)

Toledo Symphony intro

Niloufar Nourbakhsh's We, the Innumerable workshop (2022)

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PODCAST

Toledo Symphony Ellington, Tchaikovsky, Schoenfeld program preview

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Miscellaneous

Violin Vigil for Elijah McClain at the Lee monument in Richmond

Harvard thesis, MAESTRA:  Five Female Orchestral Conductors in the United States (1992)

Harvard Clifton Visiting Artist 2008

Harvard Music Library reminisces

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