This season, Jennifer Johnson Cano appears with the Chicago Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Apollo Orchestra, and National Symphony of Taiwan, as well as at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and on tour with Simone Dinnerstein and her ensemble Baroklyn. Cano also returns to the Metropolitan Opera in her role debut as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, which will mark her 150th performance at the Met. She also premieres a new song cycle by Gregory Spears at the Tucson Desert Song Festival. Recent highlights include Opera Theater of St. Louis, Houston Grand Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and she has worked with the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, and Dallas Symphony, among others. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2012.

A native of St. Louis, Cano earned degrees from Rice University and Webster University, where she was honored as a distinguished alumna and commencement speaker in May 2017. Cano joined the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera after winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is also a winner of the Young Concert Artist International Auditions, a Sara Tucker Study Grant, a Richard Tucker Career Grant, and a George London Award.

Will Liverman’s recent and upcoming highlights include performances with the London Symphony at the Edinburgh Festival, Washington National Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Music of the Baroque, Hamburg Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, and St. Louis Symphony. He has also performed at the BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, Aspen Music Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dutch National Opera, International Contemporary Ensemble, Cleveland Orchestra, and Oakland Symphony. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut last January.

At the Met, Liverman recently starred in the title role of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, and in 2021 headlined Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. In 2023, Lyric Opera of Chicago presented the world premiere of Liverman’s new opera, The Factotum, which he starred in and composed with DJ King Rico. Inspired by Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Liverman and Rico place the story in a present-day Black barbershop. Houston Grand Opera, Portland Opera, and Washington National Opera are all slated to produce The Factotum in future seasons.

Liverman’s recordings are available on Cedille Records, including Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers, which was nominated for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards. His other accolades include a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant, Marian Anderson Vocal Award, and Richard Tucker Career Grant.

Jenny Wong is Chorus Director of the San Francisco Symphony, as well as the associate artistic director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Recent conducting engagements include the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, the Industry, Long Beach Opera, Pasadena Symphony and Pops, Phoenix Chorale, and Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles.

Under Wong’s baton, the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s performance of Frank Martin’s Mass was named for Alex Ross one of ten “Notable Performances and Recordings of 2022” in the New Yorker. In 2021 she was a national recipient of Opera America’s inaugural Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors. She has conducted Peter Sellars’s staging of Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro, Sweet Land by Du Yun and Raven Chacon, and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Kate Soper’s Voices from the Killing Jar with the Long Beach Opera in collaboration with WildUp. She has prepared choruses for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, including for a recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 that won a 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.

A native of Hong Kong, Wong received her doctor of musical arts and master of music degrees from the University of Southern California and her undergraduate degree in voice performance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She won two consecutive world champion titles at the World Choir Games 2010 and the International Johannes Brahms Choral Competition 2011. She recently extended her contract with the SF Symphony through the 2028–29 season.