Hong Kong native, San Francisco-based conductor and composer, Jaco Wong currently serves as the assistant conductor of San Francisco Symphony and Opera Parallèle, and previously at Oakland Symphony. Wong has conducted the Orchestre symphonique de Québec under the guidance of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Toyama Sinfonia, Mason Bate’s Mercury Soul. Other career highlights include serving as assistant conductor for Festival Opera, Louisville Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic, and conducting the Taipei Philharmonic, for Emmy Award-winning composer Jeremy Zuckerman, and participating in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and Monteux Music Festival.

Wong’s composition Inkling was performed at New World Symphony’s “By Ear: A Journey into Musical Perception”. A finalist of the American Prize in composition, Psithaura has been performed under the baton of Donald Nally at the Northwestern University New-Music Conference. Wong has previously composed for San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Iris Contemporary Dance Company, Hocket piano duo, Lang Lang, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony.

As an active educator, Wong directs the Harker School Orchestra to perform in Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Center and is music director of the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra and conducting faculty as San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College. Wong holds degrees from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of Southern California, and San Jose State University.