Artist Bios

Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

British conductor Christopher Warren-Green is principal conductor and music director of the London Chamber Orchestra and serves as Conductor Laureate of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, following a twelve-year tenure as Music Director. Warren-Green is Chair of the Foundation for Young Musicians and celebrates a remarkable 50 years in music.

2024–25 season highlights include returns to the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, along with two visits to the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. He will also lead the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra and conduct Holst’s The Planets with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican. Warren-Green has conducted eminent orchestras around the world, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, Detroit, Houston, St Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle, and Vancouver symphony orchestras, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. In the UK, Warren-Green has worked with the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and Royal Scottish National orchestras. In Europe, he has conducted Orchestre National de Belgique, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Orchestre National de Montpelier, Zürcher Kammerorchester, RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and in East Asia the Hong Kong Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon, Singapore, Sapporo, and KBS symphony orchestras.

Notably, Warren-Green has conducted for the British Royal family at significant events, including the wedding services of H.M. King Charles III and H.M. Queen Camilla, as well as T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. He also led performances for Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 80th and 90th birthday concerts, along with H.M. King Charles’s 60th birthday concert at Buckingham Palace.

Anthony McGill, clarinet

Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character” (The New York Times), clarinetist Anthony McGill enjoys a dynamic international solo and chamber music career and is principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic — the first African-American principal player in the organization's history. He is the recipient of the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize, one of classical music’s most significant awards, and was named Musical America’s 2024 Instrumentalist of the Year.

McGill appears as a soloist with top orchestras, including the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, and Detroit symphony orchestras. In the 2024–25 season, he makes his BBC Proms debut performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Gemma New.

Also this season, McGill embarks on a multi-city tour with Emanuel Ax. He joins the performance and recording project Principal Brothers featuring his brother, Demarre McGill, as well as Titus Underwood and Bryan Young, four leading Black American woodwind principals performing the works of three prominent Black composers: James Lee III, Valerie Coleman, and Errollyn Wallen.

He performed alongside Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriela Montero at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. American Stories, his album with the Pacifica Quartet, was nominated for a Grammy Award. He has been a collaborator of the Miró, Pacifica, Shanghai, and Takács quartets, and performs with leading artists including Inon Barnatan, Gloria Chien, Yefim Bronfman, Gil Shaham, Midori, Mitsuko Uchida, and Lang Lang.