Bass-baritone Eric Owens has a unique reputation as an esteemed interpreter of classic works and a champion of new music. Equally at home in orchestral, recital, and operatic repertoire, Mr. Owens brings his powerful poise, expansive voice, and instinctive acting faculties to stages around the world.

In the 2018-2019 season, Mr. Owens returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago to make his role debut as the Wanderer in David Poutney’s new production of Wagner’s Siegfried. He also stars as Porgy in James Robinson’s new production of Porgy and Bess at the Dutch National Opera and makes his role debut as Hagen in Götterdämmerung at the Metropolitan Opera conducted by Philippe Jordan. Concert appearances include the world premiere of David Lang’s prisoner of the people at the New York Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden, the King in Aïda at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti, Verdi’s Requiem with the Minnesota Orchestra, and Mozart’s Requiem with Music of the Baroque. Mr. Owens will also go on a multi-city recital tour with tenor Lawrence Brownlee

Acclaimed by Opera News as ‘...a coloristic tour de force’, ‘among the top accompanists of her generation’, pianist Myra Huang regularly performs in recitals and chamber music concerts in notable venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum, the Seoul National Arts Center, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Concerts, the ‘University of Chicago Presents’ Series, the Spivey Hall Concert Series, the Celebrity Series of Boston and the Gilmore Festival. Huang has served on the music staffs of both the Washington National Opera and New York City Opera, where she was Head of Music Staff from 2011–2013. She has worked with such eminent conductors as Plácido Domingo, Riccardo Frizza, Richard Hickox, Philippe Jordan, Christopher Hogwood, Daniel Oren, Robert Spano, Patrick Summers and Marco Armiliato. Other engagements of note include tenures with the Palau de les Arts in Valencia (Spain), where she worked closely with artistic director Lorin Maazel and director Zubin Mehta on repertoire including the complete Wagner Ring Cycle; with the Operalia competition directed by Plácido Domingo, which led her to perform in world-renowned opera houses such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), the National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera Hall (Beijing) and Teatro Real (Madrid); and with the Mariinksy Theater, on their festival tour to Mexico City and Frutillar (Chile) in art song recitals with bass Dmitry Grigoriev. Huang is a frequent visiting artist at the Houston Grand Opera’s HGO Studio for young artists and the University of Texas Butler Opera Center, as well as a staff member at the Music Academy of the West, where she trains and coaches young opera singers and pianists.

Michael Slattery made his New York Philharmonic debut singing the Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings on Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday. He rejoined the Philharmonic the following season as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah. His critically acclaimed English translation of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion was performed this season at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Robert Shaw’s Collegiate Chorale, now MasterVoices. Career highlights include the title role in Bernstein’s Candide at Royal Festival Hall in London; J.S. Bach’s B-minor Mass with Iván Fischer and the National Symphony Orchestra; Peter Sellars’ Tristan Project with Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Philip Glass’s Akhnaten with John Adams- both with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; and the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 at the Berlin Staatsoper. He has recorded an impressive number of Handel’s works: Saul with Rene Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi; and Acis and Galatea, Atalanta, Samson, and Solomon with Nicholas McGegan. Recent projects include Robert Carsen’s production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Olivier Py’s production of Britten’s Curlew River with Opéra de Lyon.