A passionate communicator, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser brings clarity and meaning to the concert hall, fostering deep connections between audiences and performers. He is concurrently the Resident Conductor of Engagement and Education of the San Francisco Symphony, Barrett Principal Education Conductor and Community Ambassador of the Toronto Symphony, Artist in Residence and Community Ambassador of Symphony Nova Scotia, and Principal Youth Conductor and Artistic Partner of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra. He previously served as assistant conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and associate conductor of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. Host of Canadian Broadcasting Company’s (CBC) nationally broadcast weekly radio show Centre Stage, he is also the subject of a multi award-winning CBC documentary Disruptor Conductor, focusing on his efforts to extend the boundaries of the orchestral music world through concerts for neurodiverse, incarcerated, African diaspora, and LGBTQ2S+ populations.

In the 2018-19 season, soprano Ann Moss gives world premieres by Ursula Kwong-Brown, Feona Lee Jones, and Allen Shearer with Composers, Inc., and makes appearances with Solo Opera, Cleveland Opera Theater, and guitarist David Tanenbaum. She performs the US premiere of Jake Heggie’s orchestrated song cycle Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri with the Baldwin-Wallace University Orchestra, and gives the Bay Area premiere of Ingrid Stölzel's The Gorgeous Nothings, composed on fragments of Emily Dickinson. As co-founder and Artistic Director of new music repertory group CMASH, Ms. Moss has created and premiered more than 100 new vocal works. She has been a featured soloist with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, Eco Ensemble, and West Edge Opera; the Alexander, Lydian, Ives, and Hausmann string quartets; and she performed at the FENAM, Other Minds, Fresno New Music, PARMA, and Switchboard Music festivals. She has released two solo albums, Currents and Love Life, and she can also be heard on releases for the Arsis, Naxos, Albany, PARMA, Angels Share Records, and Navona Records labels. A native of Boston and a graduate of Hampshire College, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and San Francisco Conservatory, Ms. Moss resides and teaches in Richmond, CA with her husband, violist Justin Ouellet. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in 2017.