RUTH REINHARDT is quickly establishing herself as one of today’s most dynamic and nuanced young conductors. In recent years she has served as assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony, a Dudamel Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and a conducting fellow at the Seattle Symphony and the Tanglewood Music Center. She was also an associate conducting fellow of the Taki Concordia program.

She debuts this season with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Orchestre National de Radio France, RTÉ Dublin, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Blossom Music Center, and Wolf Trap, among others. Highlights of recent seasons include appearances with the Detroit Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She makes her San Francisco Symphony debut at these performances.

Ms. Reinhardt received her master’s degree in conducting from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Alan Gilbert. Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, she began studying violin at an early age and sang in the children’s chorus of Saarländisches State Theater. By age seventeen she had composed and conducted an opera, written for and performed by the youth of her hometown. She attended Zurich’s University of the Arts to study violin and began conducting studies with Constantin Trinks and Johannes Schlaefli.

Daniil Trifonov is a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer. He won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album in 2018 with Transcendental, the Liszt collection that marked his third title as a Deutsche Grammophon artist. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in January 2014 as a Shenson Young Artist.

This season, Trifonov undertakes season-long artistic residencies with both the Chicago Symphony and Czech Philharmonic. He also opened the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra’s season, and tours Europe with the Bamberg Symphony and Montral Symphony. His latest album, My American Story on Deutsche Grammophon, pairs solo pieces with concertos by George Gershwin and Mason Bates.

Trifonov’s Deutsche Grammophon discography includes the Grammy-nominatedlive recording of his Carnegie recital debut; Chopin Evocations; Silver Age, for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano award; the Grammy-nominated double album Bach: The Art of Life; and three volumes of Rachmaninoff works with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, of which two received Grammy nominations and the third won BBC Music’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year. Named Gramophone’s 2016 Artist of the Year and Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Trifonov was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2021.

During the 2010–11 season, Trifonov won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions: third prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, first prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and both first prize and grand prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.