Carnegie Hall

Celebrating 50 years during the 2024–2025 season, New York City’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) and its acclaimed concert musicians make their artistic home at Carnegie Hall, where OSL has performed more than any other orchestra since making its debut there in 1983. Bernard Labadie, an internationally renowned specialist in 18th-century music, was named OSL’s principal conductor in 2018 and will step down in 2025, concluding an expansive and critically acclaimed tenure. OSL’s annual season features a concert series in each of Carnegie Hall’s three venues as well as the Visionary Sounds and DeGaetano Composition Institute programs, which focus on contemporary composers at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music—a rehearsal, recording, and performance facility that OSL built in 2011 in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. OSL proudly collaborates with the Paul Taylor Dance Company in its Lincoln Center season each year and performs with a variety of artistic partners at venues throughout the city and beyond. Founded in 1974 when a group of virtuoso chamber musicians began performing together in Greenwich Village at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, the ensemble later expanded into an orchestra before catching fire in New York’s classical music scene. OSL has appeared on 120 recordings, four of which have won Grammy Awards; has commissioned more than 75 new works; and has given more than 200 world, US, and New York premieres. OSL champions composers from groups historically underrepresented in classical music. In recent seasons, it has presented works by Kinan Azmeh, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Coleman, Julius Eastman, Wynton Marsalis, Florence Price, Rita Dove, and Chen Yi, among others. Central to OSL’s mission is the Education and Community Engagement program, which presents free concerts to thousands of New York City public school students each year; offers the 120-student–strong Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s (YOSL), the city’s only youth orchestra under the umbrella of a professional group; provides a mentorship program for pre-professional musicians; and brings accessible concerts to all five boroughs. To learn more, visit OSLmusic.org and follow @OSLmusic on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, and TikTok.

Bernard Labadie has established himself worldwide as one of the preeminent conductors of Baroque and Classical repertoire, a reputation closely tied to his work with Les Violons du Roy (for which he served as music director from its inception until 2014) and La Chapelle de Québec. With these two ensembles, he has regularly toured Canada, the US, and Europe, in major venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Kennedy Center, Barbican in London, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and Salzburg Festival, among others. He is principal conductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York.

Recent guest-conducting highlights include performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Handel and Haydn Society, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre National de Lyon, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, and NDR Radiophilharmonie. Mr. Labadie has become a regular presence on the podiums of major North American orchestras that include the Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras; New World, Kansas City, and San Francisco symphonies; Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras; Los Angeles and New York philharmonics; Handel and Haydn Society; and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Mr. Labadie’s international engagements in recent seasons have included performances with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert and Choir, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC Scottish National Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Ghent, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, and Zurich Chamber Orchestra.

Mr. Labadie’s extensive discography includes many critically acclaimed recordings on the Dorian, ATMA, and Virgin Classics labels, including Handel’s Apollo e Dafne and a collaborative recording of Mozart’s Requiem with Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec, both of which received Canada’s Juno Award. Other recordings include C. P. E. Bach’s complete cello concertos with Truls Mørk and Les Violons du Roy; J. S. Bach’s complete piano concertos with Alexandre Tharaud, both on Virgin Classics; and Haydn’s piano concertos with Marc-André Hamelin as soloist, released by Hyperion. Mr. Labadie has received Paris’s Prix Samuel de Champlain and the Canadian government’s Officer of the Order of Canada; in addition, his home province has named him Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Québec.

In the 2024–2025 season, Canadian tenor Andrew Haji makes debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with Manfred Honeck, The Cleveland Orchestra in J. S. Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Magnificat, and NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover, Germany, for J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Bernard Labadie. In addition, he returns to Carnegie Hall in J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Les Violons du Roy and Houston Symphony in Handel’s Messiah, and Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society in Haydn’s The Seasons and Beethoven’s Mass in C Major. Other notable performances this season include Mozart’s Requiem with the Kansas City Symphony, the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito at Pacific Opera Victoria, and Dompierre’s Requiem with Festival Classica.

Recent orchestral highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra, J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion with the Seattle Symphony and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Haydn’s The Creation with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orff’s Carmina Burana at The Elora Festival.

Operatic highlights include Cassio in Verdi’s Otello at Canadian Opera Company, Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth and Pollione in Bellini’s Norma at Calgary Opera, Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème at Edmonton Opera, Jonathan in Handel’s Saul at Edinburgh International Festival, Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata with Vancouver Opera, and Alfredo in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus with Saskatoon Opera.

Mr. Haji is an alumnus of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio, and he has received awards from the Ensemble Studio and the Marilyn Horne Song Competition. He was awarded the Grand Prix at the 50th International Vocal Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, and the Oratorio Prize at the Concours musical international de Montréal. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.

French-Canadian bass-baritone Philippe Sly has gained international recognition for his “beautiful, blooming tone and magnetic stage presence” (San Francisco Chronicle). He is a first prize winner of the prestigious Concours musical international de Montréal and a grand prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; in addition, he was awarded Concert of the Year in Romantic, Post-Romantic, and Impressionist Music at the 16th Gala des Prix Opus.

In the 2024–2025 season, Mr. Sly makes returns to the Vienna State Opera as Hamm in Kurtág’s Fin de partie conducted by Simone Young and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Canadian Opera Company as Comte Karl Gustav in Julien Bilodeau’s La Reine-garçon, and Figaro at the Bavarian State Opera; in addition, he debuts at Opéra de Lausanne as Escamillo in Carmen. On the concert stage, he performs J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion with Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, Handel’s Messiah with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir and the Victoria Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Ottawa Chamberfest, and an art song recital with pianist Hinrich Alpers.

Last season, Mr. Sly returned to Opéra national de Paris for a new production of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel and to the Vienna State Opera for the title role in Le nozze di Figaro. On the concert stage, he appeared with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain for performances of Handel’s Messiah, and Orchestre symphonique de Québec for Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. In 2022–2023, he debuted at Opernhaus Zürich as Nilakantha in Lakmé and at the Bavarian State Opera as Cadmus in Semele, and returned to the Vienna State Opera as Leporello in Don Giovanni. On the concert stage, he performed J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic, and Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C Minor at Canada’s National Arts Centre.

American soprano Joélle Harvey has built a reputation as one of the finest singers of her generation, performing major roles at the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House, Zurich Opera, Teatro La Fenice, and Aix-en-Provence Festival. Highlights of the 2024–2025 season include Haydn’s The Creation with Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque, works by Ravel and Boulanger with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, her house debut at the Royal Opera of Versailles as Galatea in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, and Anne Truelove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at Des Moines Metro Opera. On the concert platform, she performs Handel’s Messiah with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Houston Symphony, returns to the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for G. Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, sings works by Mozart with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and performs Handel with Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society; in addition, she performs J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and a concert of Haydn works with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Recent highlights include appearances with internationally acclaimed ensembles that include The English Concert and Harry Bicket, The Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, Arcangelo conducted by Jonathan Cohen, and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Robin Ticciati. Ms. Harvey has also performed with the Cincinnati, Chicago, and National symphony orchestras; New York Philharmonic; Philharmonia Orchestra; and San Francisco, Jacksonville, and New World symphonies. On the opera stage, Ms. Harvey has sung Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera and the title role in Handel’s Semele at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

A native of Bolivar, New York, Ms. Harvey received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music. She began her career training at Glimmerglass Opera (now The Glimmerglass Festival) and the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program.

Hugh Cutting is a graduate of the Royal College of Music, where he was a member of the International Opera Studio. Upon graduating, he was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal, presented by King Charles III. In fall 2021, Mr. Cutting became the first countertenor to win the Kathleen Ferrier Award and to become a BBC New Generation Artist.

During his first professional season in 2022–2023, Mr. Cutting made his debut at Opernhaus Zürich singing Monteverdi, sang Arsace in Handel’s Partenope on tour in Europe with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, made his debut at London’s Wigmore Hall, and made his US debut singing Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at Carnegie Hall with Bernard Labadie and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He has gone on to sing Polinesso in Handel’s Ariodante with Les Arts Florissants, Arsace in Berenice with Il Pomo d’Oro, and J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Masaaki Suzuki. He made role debuts as the Boy in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin in Stavanger, Ariel in Anthony Bolton’s Island of Dreams at Grange Park Opera, and Dardano in Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula with The English Concert and Harry Bicket.

In the 2024–2025 season, Mr. Cutting makes his debut at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala singing Corindo in Cesti’s Orontea, his US opera debut in the title role of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and his Australian debut singing Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare for Pinchgut Opera, and he also sings Unulfo in Handel’s Rodelinda at the Garsington Festival. Concert engagements include J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and Bernard Labadie, Handel’s Messiah with the Tonkünstler Orchestra and Ivor Bolton, J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Jonathan Cohen, and J. S. Bach’s solo cantatas with Les Violons du Roy and Bernard Labadie in Quebec City and Montreal. A committed recitalist, he has premiered works by Alex Ho, Piers Connor Kennedy, Elena Langer, Anna Semple, and Tara Viscardi.

British tenor Samuel Boden has developed an international opera and concert career in the fields of early and contemporary music, and he is a highly regarded interpreter of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, and Britten, as well as the French Baroque. Career highlights include creating the roles of Boy and Young King in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with additional performances at the Dutch National Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu; the title roles of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice for the Nederlandse Reisopera; and Idamante in Campra’s Idoménée for Opéra de Lille and the Berlin State Opera.

Mr. Boden has sung high-tenor roles of Rameau and Charpentier as well as Cavalli’s L’Ormindo. Other roles include Oronte in Handel’s Alcina at the International Handel Festival, Poet in Thomas Larcher’s Das Jagdgewehr at the Aldeburgh Festival, Anthony in Sweeney Todd for Bergen National Opera, and the title role in Handel’s Acis and Galatea at the Buxton Festival. A Purcell specialist, he recently appeared in productions of The Indian Queen at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and The Fairy Queen at Drottningholms Slottsteater.

Mr. Boden regularly appears with period ensembles that include Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe, Le Concert d’Astrée with Emmanuelle Haïm, Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, Les Musiciens du Louvre with Marc Minkowski, Orchester Wiener Akademie with Martin Haselböck, The English Concert and Harry Bicket, and Freiburg Barockorchester with Kristian Bezuidenhout. He has also performed with the Bavarian Radio and BBC symphony orchestras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He recently made his US debut with the Seattle Symphony and Nicholas McGegan.

Mr. Boden’s growing discography includes Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis, as well as discs of works by Monteverdi, Capra, Charpentier, Daniel Purcell, Rameau, J. S. Bach, Tansy Davies, Alec Roth, and George Benjamin. Upcoming engagements include the title role of Rameau’s Platée for Garsington Opera, as well as projects with Collegium Vocale Gent, The English Concert, and Cappella Mediterranea.

A graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and recipient of a number of major awards, British bass William Thomas is making a name for himself as one of today’s most promising young singers. Highlights of the 2024–2025 season include his debut at the Bavarian State Opera as Colline in La bohème, Sparafucile in Rigoletto at the English National Opera, his Carnegie Hall debut in J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Bernard Labadie, the Second Soldier in Salome with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Antonio Pappano, and a return to the Salzburg Festival for Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 in F Minor with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti.

Recent appearances have included performances at the Vienna State Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Glyndebourne and Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto festivals, Salzburg Festival with Camerata Salzburg and Manfred Honeck, BBC Proms with the Britten Sinfonia and David Bates, and Edinburgh Festival with The English Concert and John Butt, as well as with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra under Dinis Sousa and the London Symphony Orchestra with François-Xavier Roth.

Created in 1985 by Founding Conductor and Music Director Bernard Labadie, La Chapelle de Québec is one of North America’s premier voice ensembles. The group is made up exclusively of professional singers who are handpicked from all over Canada. This unique chamber choir specializes in the choral-orchestral repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. The choir performs regularly with its other half, the chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy, and as a guest choir with some of the finest orchestras in North America. Its interpretations of the oratorios, requiems, masses, and cantatas of J. S. Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn, as well as Fauré and Duruflé, are frequently hailed in the Canadian and international press.

La Chapelle de Québec is heard regularly at Palais Montcalm in Québec City and Maison symphonique in Montreal, as well as at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, at Carnegie Hall with Les Violons du Roy and Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and in Ottawa with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. The choir’s concerts are often broadcast by the CBC and Radio-Canada in Canada and by National Public Radio in the United States. La Chapelle de Québec is also known for its role in Chemin de Noël, an annual event that brings together music lovers from throughout the Québec City region every December. The recording The Chemin de Noël was recorded by ATMA in November 2021.