Bernard Labadie is one of the preeminent conductors of Baroque and Classical repertoire, a reputation closely tied to his work with Les Violons du Roy—for which he served as music director from its inception until 2014—and La Chapelle de Québec. With these two ensembles, he has regularly toured North America and Europe including appearances at Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, the Kennedy Center, Barbican, Concertgebouw, and Salzburg Festival. He is principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York and was previously artistic director of the Quebec Opera and Montreal Opera.

Recent highlights include the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, National Arts Center Orchestra, and Montreal Symphony. He has also appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Santa Fe Opera. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in April 2005.

Labadie’s extensive discography includes many critically acclaimed recordings on Dorian, ATMA, and Virgin Classics labels, including Handel’s Apollo e Dafne and Mozart’s Requiem with Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Quebec—both of which received Canada’s Juno Award. In 2016, Labadie received the Samuel de Champlain Award in Paris, and has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Québec and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

This season, Joélle Harvey appears at the Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Washington National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and sings with the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Chamber Music of Lincoln Center. She also appears regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Symphony, Handel and Haydn Society, and English Concert. Stage roles have brought her to the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Glyndebourne Festival; Zurich Opera; Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Utah Opera; and New York City Opera. She made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2019.

Harvey received second prize in Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, first prize from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, and a Sara Tucker Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. She is a recipient of the Shoshana Foundation’s Richard F. Gold Career Grant, and was also presented with the John Alexander Memorial Award and the Sam Adams Award for Achievement in Acting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Harvey began her career at Glimmerglass and the Merola Opera Program and made her San Francisco Symphony debut in June 2009.

Andrew Haji debuts this season with the Boston Symphony, Boston Baroque, and returns to the Seattle Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Violons du Roy. Recent seasons have brought him to the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Handel and Haydn Society, English Concert, Dresden Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, and the Salzburg Festival. He has appeared in numerous roles at the Canadian Opera Company, where he is an alumnus of the Ensemble Studio. He has also performed at Calgary Opera, Edmonton Opera, the Edinburgh International Festival, Vancouver Opera, and Pacific Opera Victoria. He makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with this program.

Haji has received awards from the Marilyn Horne Song Competition and Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, and was awarded the Grand Prix at the 50th International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and the Oratorio Prize at the Montreal International Music Competition.

Joshua Hopkins is a Juno Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated baritone. This season, he sings at the Metropolitan Opera, Semperoper Dresden, and will appear at San Francisco Opera this May and June as the title role in The Barber of Seville. He also appears with the Cincinnati Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and Colorado Symphony, and brings Jake Heggie and Margaret Atwood’s Songs for Murdered Sisters to the Victoria Symphony and University of Michigan. This personal project, conceived by Hopkins in remembrance of his sister, brings awareness to ending intimate partner violence, and is available to watch on YouTube and as a digital album on Pentatone.

Hopkins performs regularly at the Met, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and the Santa Fe Opera. He was the winner of the Verbier Festival Academy’s 2008 Prix d’Honneur and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2006. He was also a prizewinner at the 2006 ARD Musikwettbewerb in Munich and at the 2005 Operalia Competition, and has received prizes from the George London Foundation, Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation, and Canada Council for the Arts. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in May 2009.

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.