These rising singers are set to take the LAO stage in the coming season.
The orchestra is gearing up for its next chapter and inviting some of the country’s rising young music directors to take the podium.
The series is still at its usual Tuesday time and place and also has a bigger program planned for later this summer.
The three students played together for only a year before taking gold at the national chamber music competition.
The ensemble premieres a semistaged opera inspired by the diary of a young Filipina immigrant to California.
Giddens plans to bring collaborators she has long worked with, plus more details to be announced.
Tenor Kyle van Schoonhoven, whom Bay Area operagoers will remember from his Adler Fellow days, took first place.
This year’s raft of 72 brilliant young pianists from around the globe demonstrate the future of keyboard artistry.
Netia Jones directs SFS musicians, dancer Adji Cissoko, and actor Bruce Davison in a striking production of Stravinsky’s theatrical chamber work.
Soprano Amina Edris will create the role originally intended for Julia Bullock, who’s expecting her first child this fall.
