Ted Sperling has maintained an active and successful career in the theater and concert worlds for 35 years. He is the Artistic Director of MasterVoices, music director of the recent Broadway productions of Floyd Collins and My Fair Lady, and leads the NYU Broadway Orchestra, training the next generation of Broadway musicians. Sperling has an active concert career, both as conductor and director. Highlights include Show Boat with the New York Philharmonic; The Pirates of Penzance, A Chorus Line, and Cabaret for the Public Theater; and Lady in the Dark, Of Thee I Sing, The Grapes of Wrath, Babes in Toyland, Dido and Aeneas, and Orfeo ed Euridice, all for MasterVoices. Guest conducting engagements include Iceland Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Grand Opera, Toronto Symphony, and San Diego Symphony. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2000.

Morgan James is a classically trained vocalist, Broadway veteran, and recording artist. She graduated from the Juilliard School with a classical music degree, after which she began writing and recording her own music. James has performed in the original companies of five Broadway productions and cultivated fans with viral YouTube videos. She has released five studio albums and recorded and released full-album covers of Joni Mitchell’s Blue as well as the Beatles’s White Album to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Her latest album, Nobody’s Fool, is a love letter to ’90s R&B, featuring nine new songs and a cover of Jeff Buckley’s “Everyone Here Wants You.” She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in August 2024.

Bryonha Marie has rapidly established herself as one of the brightest young stars currently on Broadway and in the classical crossover arena. Best known for her tour-de-force Broadway performance in Prince of Broadway, a career retrospective of the work of Harold Prince, Marie has also thrilled Broadway audiences in the 2025 Broadway revival of Our Town, The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess, Ragtime, After Midnight, and Book of Mormon. She makes her San Francisco Symphony debut with this performance.

Noah J. Ricketts is best known for his breakout turn as Frankie in the Peabody Award-winning Showtime limited series Fellow Travelers, earning him a Social Impact Award from the AAFCA. He has also appeared on television in American Gods and High Fidelity, and in film roles in Summoning Sylvia and The Sixth Borough. Ricketts recently originated the role of Nick Carraway in Broadway and West End productions of The Great Gatsby, and he previously appeared as Disney’s first African American Prince Kristoff in the Broadway production of Frozen. He has also appeared in the long-running hit Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and as Omar in Second Stage’s To My Girls. His acclaimed solo show, A Night with Noah, tours internationally, and his voice has fronted world-class ensembles including the Houston Symphony, Salt Lake Symphony, and Kentucky Opera. He makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with this performance.