Music Director and Conductor Mitchell Sardou Klein, in his 27th and final season on the podium of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra, brings extensive conducting experience in the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan to his leadership of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra and Peninsula Symphony. He has guest conducted the Seattle Symphony, New Polish Philharmonic, Suddetic Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, Eastern Philharmonic, and many other orchestras around the US. In California he has led Symphony San Jose, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Inland Empire/Riverside Philharmonic, Ballet San Jose, the California Riverside Ballet, the Livermore-Amador Philharmonic and others. He and Sara Salsbury founded the Peninsula Youth Orchestra, which he has taken on concert tours of England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia.

He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, violist Patricia Whaley.