Steven Reineke is in his second decade as music director of the New York Pops. He is also principal conductor and artistic advisor of the National Symphony Orchestra and principal pops conductor of the Houston Symphony and Toronto Symphony. He is a frequent guest conductor with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Detroit Symphony.

Reineke has collaborated with a range of leading artists in hip-hop, R&B, Broadway, television, and rock, including Killer Mike, Maxwell, Common, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Ne-Yo, Bob Weir, Trey Anastasio, Barry Manilow, Cynthia Erivo, Ben Rector, Cody Fry, Sutton Foster, Amos Lee, Dispatch, Jason Mraz, and Ben Folds. In 2024, he led the NSO on PBS’s Next at the Kennedy Center: Ben Folds Presents DeClassified with Jacob Collier, Laufey, and dodie. He was previously seen with the NSO on Great Performances with Nas performing his seminal album Illmatic. Reineke is also the conductor on Ben Folds Live and William Shatner’s So Fragile, So Blue, both with the NSO. In 2025, Reineke was joined on the podium by retired NFL player Marshawn Lynch, who visited the Houston Symphony ahead of Thursday Night Football for a conducting tutorial featured in his Amazon Prime show, N Yo City.

Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor of music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition, and was awarded the 2020 Alumnus Distinguished Achievement Medal. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2011.

Lena Hall is a Tony Award winner and Grammy Award nominee who currently stars on the Apple TV series Your Friends & Neighbors opposite Jon Hamm and Olivia Munn. Hall received critical acclaim for her performance of the title role in the feature film Becks (winner of the US Fiction Award at the LA Film Festival), and can be seen in Ethan Coen’s 2025 film Honey Don’t starring Margaret Qualley. Hall also starred as Miss Audrey in the TNT sci-fi drama Snowpiercer for four seasons alongside Jennifer Connelly. Guest starring roles include HBO’s Girls, Amazon Prime’s Good Girls Revolt, and Paramount+’s Evil.

Following her Tony Award–winning Broadway run in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hall toured North America with Josh Groban on his Stages tour and portrayed the dual starring roles of both Hedwig and Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. She originated the role of Nicola in Kinky Boots on Broadway, starred opposite Marisa Tomei in Lincoln Center Theater’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, and starred as Audrey in the hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors.

Hall’s solo shows Sin & Salvation, Art of the Audition, and The Villa Satori: Growing up Haight-Ashbury, played across the United States. Her newest EP is Songs from Your Friends & Neighbors. She makes her San Francisco Symphony debut with these performances.