Jessica Rivero Altarriba

Assistant Conductor, Utah Symphony | Utah Opera

Speaking at Opening Session and Gold Baton Award

Cuban conductor Jessica Altarriba is known for her charismatic stage presence, dynamic energy, and communicative skills. Recently announced as Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Assistant Conductor 2024-2025 Season and Taki Alsop Fellowship Award Recipient 2024-2026. Altarriba was named the New Jersey Symphony’s first-ever Colton Conducting Fellow for the 2023–24 season, she is also a Freeman Conducting Fellow with Chicago Sinfonietta. Altarriba is concurrently pursuing her Masters in Conducting at the Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University.
Upcoming engagements this season include performances with Utah Symphony, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, New Jersey Symphony, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, NOI Institute, and National Seminario Orchestra-Ravinia. During the 2022-2023 season she worked with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, and Lüneburg Symphoniker, Germany as a guest conductor.