Support for the San Francisco Symphony Chorus is provided through the San Francisco Symphony Chorus Endowment Fund, generously established by Peter G. Neumann.
Joélle Harvey’s performance is made possible through the generosity of the Mrs. George J. Otto Memorial Vocalist Fund.
Inside Music talks are supported in memory of Horacio Rodriguez.
Haydn Creation
April 3 & 4, 2027
Overview
Haydn took about a year and a half to compose The Creation, the longest he had ever worked on any single composition. “I spent so much time on it because I expect it to last for a long time,” he explained. It was time well spent; Haydn translates the mystery of creation into the most human of terms, infusing it with grace, delight, wit, and humor. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear it in full, performed in English by the illustrious British conductor Jane Glover and the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus.Concert Extras
An Inside Music Talk will be presented on stage one hour before each concert. Free to all ticketholders.
Artists
Jane Glover
Conductor
Soprano
Miles Mykkanen
Tenor
Michael Sumuel
Bass-baritone
Jenny Wong, Chorus Director
San Francisco Symphony
Program
Joseph
Haydn
The Creation
Sponsors
Joélle Harvey
Michael Sumuel
Miles Mykkanen
Joélle Harvey
Soprano
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.
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.
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Jenny Wong, Chorus Director
JENNY WONG
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.
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 professionals 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).
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.
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 professionals 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).
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