Joseph Turbessi maintains a career as an opera conductor, collaborative pianist, and vocal coach. ​He is a founder and co-artistic director of the Opera Theater of Cape Cod, which debuted in 2018 with Peter Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen. Since 2015 he has been associate conductor at the Lowell House Opera of Harvard University, where he conducted performances of Le Comte Ory, Ariadne auf Naxos and the American premiere of Salieri’s La Grotta di Trofonio. He has also served as chorusmaster/assistant conductor in the Boston Conservatory Opera Department, coached and conducted at the Commonwealth Lyric Theater in Boston, and produced and directed his own production of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors in partnership with St. Peter’s Church of Cambridge. Mr. Turbessi is a highly sought-after collaborative pianist and organist, and has worked with many of the major choirs in greater Boston. He is the resident accompanist for the Boston Conservatory Chorale, the Boston Conservatory Women’s Chorus, and Harvard’s Radcliffe Choral Society.  He has worked with the Lorelei Ensemble, Chorus Pro Musica, the Harvard University Chorus, and the MIT Concert and Chamber Choruses. ​​As solo pianist and organist, Turbessi has presented recitals at the Boston Conservatory, the Jamaica Plain Concert Series, the Chelmsford Center for the Arts, and Equilibrium Concerts. He is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and currently serves as music director at Old South Union Church in Weymouth, MA. He holds a MM from the Boston Conservatory.