High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Conlon (born Queens, New York on March 18, 1950), is an American Grammy-Award winning conductor and the current Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera.Conlon grew up in a family of five children on Cherry Street in Douglaston, Queens, New York. His mother, Angeline L. Conlon, was a freelance writer. His father was an assistant to the New York City Commissioner of Labor in the Robert F. Wagner administration.