Giancarlo Guerrero is music director of the Sarasota Orchestra and artistic director and principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. He continues to serve as music director laureate of the Nashville Symphony after a 16-year tenure during which he released 24 commercial recordings that garnered six Grammy Awards and 13 Grammy nominations.

This season, Guerrero appears with the Chicago Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Brussels Philharmonic, Frankfurt Museumsorchester, Sinfónica de Tenerife, and Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. He also appears with NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, where he recently completed a six-season tenure as music director and recorded the Billboard chart-topping Bomsori: Violin on Stage on Deutsche Grammophon.

In recent seasons, Guerrero has led the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Houston Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, London Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Sydney Symphony, and New Zealand Symphony, among others. In 2026, he conducted in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX Halftime Show. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in February 2013.

Guerrero previously held posts as principal guest conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami residency, music director of the Eugene Symphony, and associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. Born in Nicaragua, Guerrero immigrated during his childhood to Costa Rica, where he joined the local youth symphony. He studied percussion and conducting at Baylor University and earned his master’s degree in conducting at Northwestern University.

Three-time Grammy Award–winning violinist Hilary Hahn melds expressive musicality and technical expertise with a diverse repertoire guided by artistic curiosity. She is a prolific recording artist and commissioner of new works, and her 23 feature recordings have received numerous international prizes and acclaim. Her new role on the violin faculty of the Juilliard School follows her earlier tenure as a Juilliard visiting artist. Recent seasons have also seen her serve as an artist in residence at the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic, and as a curating artist of the Dortmund Festival. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in October 1999 as a Shenson Young Artist.

Hahn has related to her fans naturally from the very beginning of her career. Her social media initiative, #100daysofpractice, has transformed practice into a community-building celebration of artistic development. Since Hahn created the hashtag in 2017, fellow performers and students have contributed more than one million posts. A former Suzuki student, she released new recordings of the first three books of the Suzuki Violin School in 2020. In 2019, she released a book of sheet music, In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores, which includes her own fingerings, bowings, and performance notes for each work. Hahn is a prolific and celebrated recording artist whose feature albums on Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Sony have all opened in the top 10 of the Billboard charts.

In recent seasons, Hahn received the Avery Fisher Prize, was named Musical America’s artist of the year for 2023, delivered the keynote speech of the second annual Women in Classical Music Symposium, received the 2021 Herbert von Karajan award, and was awarded the 11th annual Glasshütte Original Music Festival Award, which she donated to the Philadelphia-based music education nonprofit Project 440. Hahn was the 2022 Chubb Fellow at Yale University’s Timothy Dwight College; she also holds honorary doctorates from Middlebury College and Ball State University, where there are three scholarships in her name.