Holly Jolly Pops with the SF Symphony
December 23, 2026
Overview
Experience a sumptuous array of holiday music with full orchestra and chorus. Broadway vocalists Ashley Brown and Christian Dante White star in a program featuring seasonal classics like “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” “Deck the Halls,” “The Christmas Song,” “Toyland,” and more. And don’t miss a special visit from Santa!Kids’ Tickets Half Off!
Concert Extras
Throughout December, stroll through the winter wonderland of a decked-out Davies Symphony Hall, filled with giant lit trees, wreaths, and garlands. While you’re here, sip a gingerbread old-fashioned, toast with sparkling wine, enjoy holiday desserts, and swing by the hot-chocolate cart all month long.
Artists
Enrico Lopez-Yañez
Conductor
Director, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Ashley Brown
Vocalist
Christian Dante White
Vocalist
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony
Program
To Be Announced
Sponsors
Support for the San Francisco Symphony Chorus is provided through the San Francisco Symphony Chorus Endowment Fund, generously established by Peter G. Neumann.
Jenny Wong
Director, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
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.
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.
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