Dalia Stasevska is chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the International Sibelius Festival, and principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony. This season, she guest conducts the Orchestre de Paris, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Oslo Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Finnish Radio Symphony. In North America, she returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, and debuts with the New World Symphony. Recent engagements have included the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Glyndebourne Opera. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in April 2023.

Last summer, she released her debut feature album, Dalia’s Mixtape, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring genre-bending composers such as Anna Meredith, Caroline Shaw, Andrea Tarrodi, Noriko Koide, Judith Weir, and Julius Eastman. With the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, she also released two albums on BIS.

Stasevska studied violin and composition at the Tampere Conservatory and went on to study violin, viola, and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. In December 2018, she conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic at the Nobel Prize Ceremony. In 2023, she was named one of The New York Times “Breakout Stars” and received BBC Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year Award. She was previously awarded the Alfred Kordelin Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named her to the Order of Princess Olga, Third Class, and since 2022, she has actively supported Ukraine by raising donations and delivering supplies.

German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic at the Proms, London Symphony, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, and Tokyo NHK Symphony. His recordings have earned him the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the Diapason d’Or.

Renowned for his efforts to expand the reach of the classical genre, as well as his passionate focus on new music, Moser has commissioned works from Julia Wolfe, Ellen Reid, Thomas Agerfeld Olesen, Johannes Kalitzke, Jelena Firsowa, and Andrew Norman. In 2011 he premiered Enrico Chapela’s Magnetar for electric cello with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and brought it on tour with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil at Davies Symphony Hall. Throughout his career, Moser has been committed to reaching out to all audiences, from kindergarten to college and beyond.

Born into a musical family in 1979, Moser began studying the cello at the age of eight. He was the top prize winner at the 2002 Tchaikovsky Competition, in addition to being awarded the Special Prize for his interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. In 2014 he was awarded the prestigious Brahms prize. Moser plays on an Andrea Guarneri Cello from 1694 from a private collection, and holds a professorship at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in January 2019.