Harry Bicket studied at the Royal College of Music and the University of Oxford, where he was an organ scholar at Christ Church. He is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded an OBE in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours. In 2007 he was appointed artistic director of the English Concert, one of Europe’s finest period orchestras, and is also music director of Santa Fe Opera.

This season, Bicket makes his Zurich Opera debut, returns to the Chicago Symphony, and tours Europe and the United States with the English Concert, alongside their regular London series and Handel Messiah performances in Madrid and Barcelona. Bicket is a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and has also led multiple productions with Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Paris Opera, and Bavarian State Opera. In the United Kingdom, he made his Glyndebourne Festival debut in 1996 in Peter Sellars’s landmark production of Theodora, and has made numerous appearances with the English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Opera North. On the concert stage, he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Seattle Symphony. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in March 2001.

Bicket is a prolific recording artist and has made numerous recordings with the English Concert. His discography also includes five recordings with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, including one with mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson that was nominated for a Grammy Award.

South African soprano Golda Schultz trained at the Juilliard School and with the Bavarian State Opera’s Opernstudio. Her early successes included appearances at the Salzburg Festival, Glyndebourne Festival, Metropolitan Opera, and Vienna State Opera. She has gone on to appear at the Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and Dallas Opera, and has become a regular presence at the Met.

Schultz’s 2025–26 season includes Zurich Opera, her house debut at Teatro Real, and a return to Munich Festival Opera. In concert, the season brings a European tour with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, culminating in a return to the BBC Proms; Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Berlin Philharmonic; and Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the New York Philharmonic.

Recent highlights include appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra. In 2020, she starred in BBC’s Last Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in September 2022.

Schultz’s debut solo album, This Be Her Verse on Alpha Classics, explores the worlds and inspirations of female composers from the Romantic era to present day. Her second and most recent release, Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!, examines the complexities of the female experience in the three Mozart/da Ponte opera and won the 2025 Opus Klassik Solo Vocal Recording of the Year Award.

Samuel White recently served as an Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera and was a participant in the Merola Opera Program, where he performed Bacchus in the final scene of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Schwabacher Summer Concert, and the title role in an excerpt from Massenet’s Werther for the Grand Finale concert. He has debuted at Wexford Festival Opera and covered roles at Glimmerglass and Santa Fe Opera.

Originally from Columbia, South Carolina, White completed his studies at Florida State University, Ohio State University, and Manhattan School of Music. In addition to his training with Merola, he has joined the Aspen Music Festival and Lyric Opera Studio Weimar. He makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with this performance.