Chloé Van Soeterstède became principal guest conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony in 2024. Her recent highlights include engagements with the Norwegian Radio Symphony, Gävle Symphony, London Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre National de Lille, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, and RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid. In 2023 she debuted with the Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, and Auckland Philharmonia, and in 2024 debuted with the Vancouver Symphony.

This season, Van Soeterstède returned to the BBC Scottish Symphony for a concert at Glasgow’s City Halls. She closed the season with the Orchestra of the Opera National de Lorraine in Nancy, and returned to the Norrkoping Symphony and Ulster Orchestra as part of last summer’s BBC Proms. She makes her San Francisco Symphony debut with this performance.

Van Soeterstède was born in France and in 2012 founded the Arch Sinfonia, a chamber orchestra based in London. She was made a Taki Alsop Fellow for 2019–21 by Marin Alsop, was a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2021–22 season, and in 2023 became an associate member of the Royal Northern College of Music. She regularly programs works by contemporary composers and was awarded the Bärenreiter Prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work at the German Conducting Award in Cologne, where she also won third prize overall.

Paul Huang debuts next season at Carnegie Hall with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and will make subscription debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, China Philharmonic, Guangzhou Symphony, and Pasadena Symphony. He returns to the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Residentie Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, and National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. His recent highlights include Bravo!Vail Music Festival, Rotterdam Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, NHK Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, and Seoul Philharmonic. In 2021, he became the first classical violinist to perform his own arrangement of the national anthem for an opening game of the NFL.

Huang is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. As winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Huang debuted at Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center. His other honors include first prize at the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition Sion-Valais in Switzerland, the Chi-Mei Cultural Foundation Arts Award for Taiwan’s Most Promising Young Artists, the 2013 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and 2014 Classical Recording Foundation Young Artist Award.

Born in Taiwan, Huang was a recipient of the inaugural Kovner Fellowship at the Juilliard School, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He plays on the 1742 “ex-Wieniawski” Guarneri del Gesù on extended loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in February 2024.