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Micah Gleason, an “easygoing yet fiercely skilled conductor and singer” (New York Times), is an active symphonic and opera conductor whose 25/26 season has included conducting debuts with Washington National Opera, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Opera Memphis, City of London Sinfonia, Mannes Opera Theater, Utah Symphony, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition’s Grossman Ensemble, and Cincinnati Opera’s Opera Fusion: New Works project; as well as serving as cover conductor at the National Symphony Orchestra, and returning to The Spoleto Festival as both a conductor and a vocalist/creator. Across this season's appearances, Micah has conducted premieres of thirteen different pieces.

In recent years, Micah has collaborated with notable ensembles including the Iceland Symphony, Symphony of the Americas, San Diego Symphony, The Spoleto Festival Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra, the Dallas Opera, the Cliburn, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, and served as cover conductor for opera productions with Washington National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, The Glimmerglass Festival, Beth Morrison Projects, Juilliard Opera Theater, Curtis Opera Theater, and Bard College Opera Theater. 

Micah is a mentee of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, was chosen by the Dallas Opera for its renowned Hart Institute for Women Conductors, is a recipient of the 2024 Taki Alsop Conducting Award and winner of the 2025 American Prize in Conducting. 

Interdisciplinary collaboration and community building are at the core of Micah’s music-making. She is curious about the most effective ways to disrupt the stasis and comfort of the modern concert hall; and how artists across disciplines, community organizers, and researchers can most effectively collaborate. 

An avid performer of chamber music as both conductor and a singer, Micah has appeared at the 92nd Street Y, with Chamber Music Northwest, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Friends of Music Concerts Inc., Phoenix Chamber Music Society, and the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (now Art Song Chicago).

A multidisciplinary artist herself, Micah enjoys working with collaborators across a range of artistic specializations. Alongside mezzo-soprano Joanne Evans, Micah is a co-founder of LOAM, an artistic partnership presenting semi-immersive theatrical-musical works. 

Micah is represented worldwide by Intermusica Artist Management. She is an alum of the Curtis Institute of Music, Bard College-Conservatory of Music, Chicago College of Performing Arts, and Interlochen Arts Academy.

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London-born mezzo-soprano Joanne Evans is a graduate of the 2023 Merola Opera Program and the 2024 Académie of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, where she was awarded Le Prix des Amis for Voice.

The 2025-2026 season includes appearances with the Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Tokyo Spring Festival and at Festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije for performances of George Benjamin's Into the Little Hill, conducted by Pierre Bleuse and George Benjamin respectively, as well as two mainstage appearances at Opera San Jose: Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Flora in La traviata.  She also returns to the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, in partnership with the Ear Taxi Festival, to present a concert of newly commissioned vocal music.

The 2026-2027 season includes leading roles with the English National Opera (Dodo McNeill in Breaking the Waves) and Opéra Comique (Into the Little Hill), as well as an appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Lessons in Love and Violence, conducted by Edward Gardner) and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (Handel’s Messiah).

In the summer of 2024, she was a fellow at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, after which she traveled to Aldeburgh, England to join the Britten Pears Young Artist Program for contemporary composition. Joanne then attended the bel canto Voice Academy at Fondation des Treilles, and performed the role of Flora in La traviata with Annapolis Opera. 

As a Vocal Fellow at Music Academy of the West, Joanne sang the role of Olga in Eugene Onegin and was named winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 2022. This performance prompted a commission by Tom Cipullo, ‘Aubade with a Chance of Rain’ which has since been recorded by Laduga Records. She is a proud alumna of the Artist-in-Residence program at Opera Colorado, where her mainstage performances included the role of Maddalena in a student matinee of Rigoletto, and Lucienne in Die Tote Stadt. Elsewhere, Joanne placed first in the 2022 Handel Aria Competition, was a Boston District winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and was made finalist in the 2025 Dallas Lone Star Competition. She is a beneficiary of a Career Bridges grant and also received awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and the Premiere Opera Foundation. 

Alongside singer and conductor, Micah Gleason, Joanne is co-founder of Loam Music, an artistic partnership presenting semi-immersive musical works. Loam’s projects include multi-disciplinary recital, Fragile Femme, and one-woman opera, Daughter of God, a newly commissioned one-woman chamber opera by Christopher Bell which received its inaugural workshop at the Curtis Institute of Music in May 2024. Loam’s next performance will be at the Spoleto Festival USA to perform as part of the Tell Your Story initiative.

Between 2014 and 2019, Joanne spent her time in London away from opera but performing in musicals and plays, including the U.K. regional premiere of Laura Wade’s ‘Posh’ at both Nottingham and Salisbury Playhouses, music for which was written for her by Isobel Waller-Bridge. Soon after, Joanne joined pop a cappella group Gobsmacked with whom she performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London’s Southbank, the Udderbelly residency in Hong Kong, and as part of a seven-month North American tour (including three sold-out shows at The Kennedy Center). Elsewhere she is credited with co-writing and performing the theme tune for BBC prime time show ‘Pitch Battle’.