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The Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) is an independent orchestra and performing arts organization based in New York City. Founded in 1974 as St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and expanded into an orchestra in 1979, OSL has become a “a mainstay of New York’s classical scene” (The New Yorker). Today, OSL appears throughout the season at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie, a celebrated specialist in 18th-century music. OSL performs with the Paul Taylor Dance Company for presentations at Lincoln Center and elsewhere, serves as the orchestra-in-residence at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts each summer, and can be seen in concerts and multi-disciplinary performances with partners throughout the city and beyond. The orchestra has commissioned more than 50 new works and has given more than 175 world, US, and New York City premieres, while also participating in 118 recordings, four of which have been recognized with Grammy Awards. OSL’s education and community engagement programs bring classical music learning and inspiration to tens of thousands of students and families each year through school-time and community concerts and the more than 100-student-strong Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s. In 2011, OSL opened The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City’s only rehearsal, recording, and performance space expressly dedicated to classical music, serving thousands of local and international musicians each year. To learn more, visit OSLmusic.org or follow @OSLmusic on YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

Jahja Ling’s distinguished career has earned him an exceptional reputation for musical integrity, intensity, and expressivity. He has conducted major orchestras throughout North America, including in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. During his tenure as music director of the San Diego Symphony (2003–2017), he received praise for building the ensemble from its post-bankruptcy state into a top-tier orchestra. In October 2013, Mr. Ling led the orchestra in a sold-out appearance at Carnegie Hall and on tour to China. Together, they have recorded works for Telarc and Naxos as well as on the orchestra’s own label. The orchestra recently named him the first conductor laureate in its history.

Mr. Ling has maintained a continuous relationship with The Cleveland Orchestra since 1984, conducting the orchestra in more than 600 concerts over the course of 39 seasons, and in 2006 he was presented a Congressional Record by the US House of Representatives for his outstanding achievements. Mr. Ling has served as music director of The Florida Orchestra (1988–2002), artistic director of the Taiwan Philharmonic (1998–2001), and assistant and associate conductor of the San Francisco Symphony (1981–1983). Mr. Ling became the first classical music conductor featured at a Super Bowl when he led Whitney Houston’s legendary Super Bowl XXV national anthem performance.

Deeply committed to education, Mr. Ling served as founding music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (1986–1993) and San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (1981–1984), and as director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra (1983–1984). He made his European debut with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1988, and has appeared with orchestras in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Copenhagen, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Montreal, Osaka, Singapore, Stockholm, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo, and Vancouver, among other cities.

Mr. Ling began playing piano at the age of four, and studied at The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. He was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood Music Center and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute under Mr. Bernstein. Mr. Ling recently received the Bravo Classical Music Icon Lifetime Achievement Award from San Diego County for his contribution to the cultural life of San Diego.

Lang Lang is a leading figure in classical music today. As a pianist, educator, and philanthropist, he has become one of the world’s most influential and committed ambassadors for the arts in the 21st century. Equally happy playing for billions of viewers at the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing or just for a few hundred children in a public school, he is a master of communicating through music.

Lang Lang has formed ongoing collaborations with conductors who include Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Barenboim, and Christoph Eschenbach, and he performs with the world’s top orchestras. Known for thinking outside the box, he frequently steps into different musical worlds, including televised performances at the Grammy Awards with Metallica, Pharrell Williams, and Herbie Hancock.

In 2008, Lang Lang founded the Lang Lang International Music Foundation to cultivate tomorrow’s top pianists, champion music education at the forefront of technology, and build a young audience through live music experiences. In 2013, he was designated by the Secretary General of the United Nations as a Messenger of Peace with a focus on global education.

Lang Lang started playing the piano at age three, and gave his first public recital before age five. He entered Beijing’s Central Music Conservatory at age nine, and won first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians at 13. He subsequently studied with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Lang Lang was presented with the 2010 Crystal Award in Davos and was picked as one of the Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the Royal College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and New York University. In December 2011, he was honored with the highest prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China and received the highest civilian honors in Germany (Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) and France (Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters). In 2016, he was invited to the Vatican to perform for Pope Francis. He has also performed for numerous other international dignitaries, including four US presidents and monarchs from many nations.

Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, to German-Korean parents, Gina Alice Redlinger began playing piano at age four. Since 2009, she has studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. She also studied with Laszlo Simon and Klaus Hellwig at Berlin University of the Arts, and with Gary Graffman as a fellow of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation.

Ms. Redlinger began playing in public at the age of eight, and quickly received acclaim in France and Spain. She has participated in master classes at the Moulin D’Andé International Academy and the Burgos International Music Festival. At age eight, she performed Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D Major at a Steinway concert. In 2007, she performed Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto in G Minor on German national television with the Berlin National Youth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Rasmus Baumann.

Ms. Redlinger made her acclaimed solo piano recital debut in 2009. In spring 2012, she made her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Philharmonie performing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 under conductor Kazuo Kanemaki, and in March 2013, she performed Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the orchestra. In January 2013, she performed a sold-out young artist recital at the Hessischer Rundfunk Sendesaal in Frankfurt, Germany, that was later broadcast on German national radio.

In May 2014, Ms. Redlinger appeared at Berlin’s Philharmonie during the final concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s season, performing an arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Paganini for solo piano and collaborating with the orchestra. In 2016, she appeared in China with the Shenyang and Guangzhou symphony orchestras. In 2017, she gave a recital at the Ruhr Piano Festival, the largest piano festival in the world. In 2019, she performed “the moment of victory” with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.