Brent Wilson, a Los Angeles-based conductor and stage director, serves as the Department Chair of Performing Arts and Director of Voice, Choir, Opera, and Musical Theatre at Ventura College and is Director of Choral Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master for over 20 productions with Opera Santa Barbara, conducting The Consul and Don Pasquale, and has received National Opera Association top awards for collegiate opera productions including Twelfth Night(UCSB) and Trouble in Tahiti(Viterbo).

Wilson has collaborated with renowned choral and opera ensembles such as Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society(Chicago), Long Beach Camerata, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre St. Louis, and Lyric Opera of Chicago.

His academic contributions include faculty roles at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, Augustana College, and resident guest director of opera at Viterbo University, A dedicated educator, Wilson champions young singers, with students performing in Broadway tours of Hamilton, School of Rock, and Rock of Ages.

Wilson’s interests include reviving lost works by Gian Carlo Menotti, with a focus on operas from their NBC and CBS debuts in the 1960s and 70s. He is a member of the National Opera Association, American Choral Directors Association, and National Association of Teachers of Singing.

He holds degrees in Voice Performance (B.A., Augustana College; M.M., Boston University) and Computer Science/Mathematics (Augustana College). Outside of music, he is an accomplished endurance athlete, having completed five Ironman competitions, fourteen marathons, and the 75-mile Alta Via I trail across the Italian Dolomites in a weekend.