Guest Artist – Page 7 – Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Demarre McGill

Mr. McGill has participated in festivals around the globe, cofounded Art of Élan, is a founding member of the Myriad Trio, and has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, Moab Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival.

Titus Underwood

Titus Underwood is principal oboe of the Nashville Symphony, Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, and co-principal of the Chineke! Orchestra. He is also the Associate Professor of Oboe at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

NYO2 Ensemble

Created by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute in summer 2016, NYO2 brings together outstanding young American instrumentalists ages 14–17 for a summer orchestral training program that includes a residency and an exciting concert at Carnegie Hall.

Grace Leer

Grace Leer, a Northern California native started singing at age 6, she knew there was nothing else she would love more than being on stage with a microphone in her hand, making people feel something through her voice. Throughout her younger years, Grace sang anywhere and everywhere she could throughout the Bay Area as well as playing competitive soccer and excelling in her schoolwork.

Kathryn Henry

In the 2024/25 season, Ms. Henry makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in Die Frau ohne Schatten and appears with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as Gutrune and 3rd Norn in Götterdämmerung and Helmwige in Die Walküre as part of their Ring Cycle. Additionally, she sings Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro with North Carolina Opera, Micaëla in Carmen with the Florentine Opera Company, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Richmond Symphony in Virginia.

Alexandra Loutsion

Hailed as “fearless” (Opera News) and “masterful” (Tulsa World) with a “commanding presence” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Alexandra Loutsion continues to be recognized for her passionate performances and vocal versatility as a rising star on the operatic stage.

Lucy Fitz Gibbon

Noted for her “dazzling, virtuoso singing” (Boston Globe), Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a dynamic musician whose repertoire spans the Renaissance to the present. She believes that creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past makes room for the multiplicity and diversity of voices integral to classical music’s future.

Samantha Bennett

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as a violinist “full of subtlety and poise”, Samantha Bennett is an active and varied performer around the globe. Ms. Bennett is a violinist in The Dallas Opera Orchestra, having previously served as the Principal Second Violin of the Sarasota Orchestra from 2016-2022.

Han Chen

Pianist Han Chen has emerged among the new generation of concert pianists as a uniquely fearless performer in a wide variety of musical settings. Gold Medalist at the 2013 China International Piano Competition and a prizewinner at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, he has been praised by Gramophone as “impressively commanding and authoritative” and further cited by The New York Times for his “graceful touch,” “rhythmic precision” and “hypnotic charm.”

Conor Hanick

Pianist Conor Hanick is regarded as one of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of music new and old whose “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master.”