Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim is the Caroline H. Hume Music Director of San Francisco Opera, a position she has held since 2021. The 2024-25 season has seen Kim make her highly successful debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Tosca and return to the Berlin State Opera to lead Simon Boccanegra. At San Francisco Opera this season, she continues her long-term exploration of the works of Verdi and Wagner with new productions of Un ballo in maschera, Tristan und Isolde and Idomeneo. On the concert stage this season, she returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and makes her debut appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.

Some of Kim’s notable orchestral engagements to date include the Berlin Philharmonic, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Seoul Philharmonic, and major North American orchestras such as the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Her collaboration with the National Brass Ensemble—featuring a new arrangement of Wagner’s Ring cycle—was released by Pentatone on the album Deified.

Kim appears regularly at many of the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra national de Paris, and Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Eun Sun Kim studied composition and conducting in her hometown of Seoul, South Korea, before continuing her studies in Stuttgart. Immediately after graduation, she won first prize at the International Jesús López Cobos Opera Conducting Competition at Teatro Real in Madrid.

Frank Peter Zimmermann is widely regarded as one of the foremost violinists of his generation. Praised for his selfless musicality, his brilliance and keen intelligence he has been performing with all major orchestras in the world for well over three decades, collaborating on these occasions with the world’s most renowned conductors, among which the Berliner Philharmoniker with whom he made his debut in 1985 with Daniel Barenboim; the Wiener Philharmoniker with whom he played for the first time in 1983 with Lorin Maazel in Salzburg; the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, all London orchestras, as well as all big American orchestras.

He is a regular guest at all major music festivals, such as Salzburg, Edinburgh and Lucerne. Over the years Frank Peter Zimmermann has built up an impressive discography for Warner Classics, Sony Classical, BIS, Ondine, Hänssler, Decca and ECM. He has recorded virtually all major concerto repertoire, ranging from Bach to Ligeti, Dean and Pintscher; the six solo sonatas of Ysaÿe; the 24 Caprices of Paganini and the complete sonatas for violin and viano by J.S. Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.

Together with Antoine Tamestit (viola) and Christian Poltéra (cello) he founded the Trio Zimmermann. BIS Records released highly praised recording of works for string trio by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Schönberg and Hindemith.

Born in 1965 in Duisburg, Germany, he started learning playing the violin with his mother when he was 5 years old. He studied with Valery Gradov, Saschko Gawriloff and Herman Krebbers. He plays on the 1711 Antonius Stradivari violin « Lady Inchiquin”, which is kindly provided by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, « Kunst im Landesbesitz ».

Founded in 1918 by Ernest Ansermet, who was its principal conductor until 1967, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) is made up of 112 permanent musicians. It gives subscription concerts in Geneva and Lausanne, symphonic programmes for the City of Geneva, the annual United Nations Day concert and accompanies operatic performances at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva. Over the decades, the OSR has built up an international reputation thanks to its historic recordings and its interpretation of the 20th-century French and Russian repertories.