All Mozart

Acclaimed British conductor Jane Glover, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year’s Honours, has been music director of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque since 2002.  

Jane has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. In recent seasons, she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic; the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minnesota, San Francisco, Houston, St. Louis, Sydney, Cincinnati, and Toronto symphony orchestras; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; and the Bamberg Symphony. In addition to these concerts, recent engagements include the Cleveland Orchestra and debuts with the Chicago Symphony and Montreal’s Orchestre Mètropolitain. 

In demand on the international opera stage, Jane has appeared with numerous companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, the Berlin Staatsoper, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera National de Bordeaux, Opera Australia, and Chicago Opera Theater. Highlights of recent seasons include The Magic Flute with the Metropolitan Opera; Alcina with Washington Opera; L’Elisir d’amore for Houston Grand Opera; Albert Herring with Minnesota Opera, The Turn of the Screw, Jephtha and Lucio Silla in Bordeaux, The Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, Così fan tutte, and Figaro at the Aspen Music Festival; Gluck’s Armide and Iphigenie en Aulide with Met Young Artists and Juilliard; Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; and Eugene Onegin, The Rake’s Progress, The Marriage of Figaro, L’incoronazione di Poppea, and the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! at the Royal Academy of Music. Last season, she returned to the Metropolitan Opera and Houston Grand Opera to conduct The Magic Flute, and to the Aspen Music Festival to conduct Don Giovanni. 

Jane Glover’s discography includes a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies with the London Mozart Players and recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Britten, and Walton with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, and the BBC Singers. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books Mozart’s Women and Handel in London.   

Acclaimed as “a wonderfully talented violinist…whose sound and technique go well beyond her years,” violinist Yoonshin Song was born in South Korea, where she began her musical studies at age 5. Making her solo debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at age 11, she has since built a successful international performing career.  

Yoonshin was appointed concertmaster of the Houston Symphony in August 2019. Previously, she held the same position with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for seven seasons. In Europe, she serves as guest concertmaster of the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, and she has led the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra with numerous top-tiered conductors and artists.  

Beyond her first chair duties with this orchestra, Yoonshin has performed as a soloist with many orchestras around the world, including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, the Paul Constantinescu Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others.  

She has also participated as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous leading music festivals, including the Marlboro, Deer Valley, Great Lakes, and Aspen Music Festivals in the United States; the Miyazaki Chamber Music Festival in Japan; and the Verbier, Lucerne, and Bayreuth Festivals in Europe. 

Violist Joan DerHovsepian has held the Associate Principal chair of the Houston Symphony since 2010 and currently serves as Acting Principal Viola. She joined the viola section in 1999, hired by Christoph Eschenbach. Joan was last featured with the Houston Symphony in March 2022, performing Bruch’s Double Concerto under the baton of former music director Andrés Orozco-Estrada.  

Recent chamber music and summer festival appearances include the Mainly Mozart Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Texas and Melbourne Australia, the Lake Lure Chamber Music Festival, the Peninsula Music Festival, the Texas Music Festival, Music in Context, the St. Cecelia Chamber Music Society, and the National Orchestral Institute as a faculty member.  

A dedicated teacher, Joan is an artist teacher of viola at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, mentoring students through viola orchestral repertoire classes and independent study. She is a regular guest faculty with the New World Symphony and has given guest masterclasses for renown music schools such as the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the New England Conservatory, and for viola students of The Juilliard School.  

Joan was violist of the Everest Quartet, top prize winners at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. She earned the second-place award at the Primrose International Viola Competition. Joan served two seasons as principal viola of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and played two seasons with the Rochester Philharmonic. Her primary teachers include James Dunham and Kim Kashkashian.