A dynamic conductor known for his ability to work in many different genres and settings, Constantine Kitsopoulos is equally at home with opera, symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, musical theater, and composition. He is music director of the Festival of the Arts Boca, general director of Chatham Opera, and general director of the New York Grand Opera.
In recent seasons, Kitsopoulos has conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in 2007.

Kitsopoulos has developed semi-staged productions of The Magic Flute (for which he has written a new translation), Don Giovanni, and La bohème. He has conducted productions of Falstaff, Die Fledermaus, A View from the Bridge, H.M.S. Pinafore, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, The Music Man, and The Last Savage. On Broadway, he has been music director for many successful productions and cast recordings.

John Wilson frequently performs as a pianist with the San Francisco Symphony and serves as principal keyboard for the Marin Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and Oakland Symphony. This season he appears at Carnegie Hall, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and on the SF Symphony’s Chamber Music Series. He performs Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra and Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Marin Symphony. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Wilson has premiered works by Michael Tilson Thomas, John Adams, Timo Andres, and Steve Reich.

Wilson performed on the Grammy Award–winning recording of Michael Tilson Thomas’s Meditations on Rilke as well as on the recent release of Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas on Pentatone. His 2022 solo debut album on Avie Records featured the world premiere of MTT’s Upon Further Reflection.

Kevin Fox is the conductor of the Marin Symphony Chorus and as founding artistic director of Pacific Boychoir has collaborated with San Francisco Symphony on dozens of projects since 2002, including Grammy Award–winning recordings of Mahler’s Third and Eighth Symphonies.

Fox has prepared choirs for conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Gustavo Dudamel, and James Conlon, as well as for the United Nations, Yahoo!, Zach Galifianakis, and America’s Got Talent. He has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, Dmitri Hvorostovky, and cellist Zöe Keating, and served as chorus director for the Ojai Festival and UC Davis University Chorus. He was selected as Classical Movements’ inaugural India Choral Fellow and was awarded “Heritage Keeper” status from the Friends of Negro Spirituals. He holds degrees in music and economics from Wesleyan University and has also studied music at Oxford University and Westminster Choir College.