Open Rehearsal
Honeck Conducts Mozart’s Requiem
February 26, 2026
Concert Extras
A preconcert talk will be presented from the stage one hour before the concert. Free to all ticketholders.
Artists
Manfred Honeck
Conductor
Ying Fang
Soprano
Mezzo-soprano
David Portillo
Tenor
Kyle Ketelsen
Bass-baritone
Adrian Roberts
Narrator
Director, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony
Program
Ludwig van
Beethoven
Coriolan Overture
Joseph
Haydn
Symphony No. 93 in D major
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Requiem, K.626
(dramatic production conceived by Manfred Honeck)
Sponsors
Lead support for the San Francisco Symphony Chorus this season is provided through a visionary gift from an anonymous donor.
Open rehearsals are endowed by a bequest from The Estate of Katharine Hanrahan.
Open rehearsals are endowed by a bequest from The Estate of Katharine Hanrahan.
Ying Fang, soprano
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Sasha Cooke
Mezzo-soprano
Two-time Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Seattle Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, among others, and with more than 80 symphony orchestras worldwide.
This season, Cooke debuts at La Monnaie as Emilie Ekdahl in the world premiere of Fanny and Alexander, sings Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust at the Bard Music Festival, appears as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at the Gstaad Festival, and returns to Houston Grand Opera as Venus in Tannhäuser. On the concert stage, she joins the Vienna Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Cologne Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, Oslo Philharmonic, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Cooke first appeared under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas as a Shenson Young Artist in January 2010, following her SF Symphony debut the previous year. She also toured Europe with MTT and the Symphony singing Mahler’s Third Symphony.
Cooke premiered MTT’s Meditations on Rilke, captured on a Grammy-winning SFS Media release, and recorded two of MTT’s songs on Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas.
This season, Cooke debuts at La Monnaie as Emilie Ekdahl in the world premiere of Fanny and Alexander, sings Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust at the Bard Music Festival, appears as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at the Gstaad Festival, and returns to Houston Grand Opera as Venus in Tannhäuser. On the concert stage, she joins the Vienna Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Cologne Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, Oslo Philharmonic, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Cooke first appeared under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas as a Shenson Young Artist in January 2010, following her SF Symphony debut the previous year. She also toured Europe with MTT and the Symphony singing Mahler’s Third Symphony.
Cooke premiered MTT’s Meditations on Rilke, captured on a Grammy-winning SFS Media release, and recorded two of MTT’s songs on Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas.
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
![]()
The San Francisco Symphony Chorus was established in 1973 at the request of Seiji Ozawa, then the Symphony’s Music Director. The Chorus, numbering 32 professional and more than 120 volunteer members, now performs more than 26 concerts each season. Louis Magor served as the Chorus’s director during its first decade. In 1982 Margaret Hillis assumed the ensemble’s leadership, and the following year Vance George was named Chorus Director, serving through 2005–06. Ragnar Bohlin concluded his tenure as Chorus Director in 2021, a post he had held since 2007. Jenny Wong was named Chorus Director in September 2023.
The Chorus can be heard on many acclaimed San Francisco Symphony recordings and has received Grammy Awards for Best Performance of a Choral Work (for Orff’s Carmina burana, Brahms’s German Requiem, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8) and Best Classical Album (for a Stravinsky collection and for Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 and Symphony No. 8).
To view a San Francisco Symphony Chorus roster, click here.
Jenny Wong
Director, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
A native of Hong Kong, Jenny Wong is Chorus Director of the San Francisco Symphony and associate artistic director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Her conducting engagements have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony and Pops, the Industry, Long Beach Opera, Phoenix Chorale, and Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. In 2021, Wong was one of nine national recipients of Opera America’s inaugural Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors.
As Chorus Director, Wong has worked with SF Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas, as well as numerous guest conductors. She has also prepared choruses for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony, working with conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Susanna Mälkki, Jonathan Cohen, and Osmo Vänskä, among many others. Wong led the SF Symphony Chorus for the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Kaija Sariaaho’s Adriana Mater, which won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, and helped prepare the Los Angeles Master Chorale for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Together with Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Wong was also awarded the 2022 American Prize in Choral Performance in the Professional Division.
As Chorus Director, Wong has worked with SF Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas, as well as numerous guest conductors. She has also prepared choruses for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony, working with conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Susanna Mälkki, Jonathan Cohen, and Osmo Vänskä, among many others. Wong led the SF Symphony Chorus for the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Kaija Sariaaho’s Adriana Mater, which won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, and helped prepare the Los Angeles Master Chorale for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Together with Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Wong was also awarded the 2022 American Prize in Choral Performance in the Professional Division.
©2025 San Francisco Symphony | Privacy Statement & Terms and Conditions
