Mary Chun is an American conductor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is Music Director of the Cinnabar Theater and has been the conductor of Earplay since 2000. Chun earned her master's degree from San Francisco State University where she studied piano with Carlo Bussotti and conducting with Lászlo Varga. She served as Director of Musical Studies to Kent Nagano at the Opéra National de Lyon, assisting on his recording of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 1992. She served on the music staff at the San Francisco Opera, helping prepare productions of Das Verratene Meer (1991) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1992). She later assisted on the company's 2002 production of Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise for which she also played the Ondes Martenot. She has also served on th